Largest Landowners in Montana

The most prolific landowners in Montana — ranked by how many parcels each holds across every county this site publishes, acreage breaking ties.

Some counties in Montana do not publish parcel acreage, so acres sums the county's own figure where there is one and the mapped boundary where there is not — marked † below.

#OwnerCountiesParcelsAcresAssessed value
1FORT PECK INDIAN RESERVATION1958239,198$26,390,459
2FORT PECK ASSINIBOINE & SIOUX TRIBES1848193,069$28,475,541
3USDI BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT235154,096 †$86,333
4STATE OF MONTANA2308101,689 †$1,480,932
5UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN TRUST120614,505$6,937,856
6USA1145719$3,152,931
7ROOSEVELT COUNTY1894,200$1,723,743
8CITY OF SIDNEY171584 †
9FINNICUM PAUL & LYNNE16624$351,065
10KELLY PROPERTIES LLC1669 †
11LODAHL FARMS REAL ESTATE LLC16312,023$3,605,174
12KITTLESON FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LP15712,417 †
13DAHLBERG DARREN1556,871$2,294,634
14KRINGEN FAMILY LLP15547 †
15ASSINIBOINE & SIOUX TRIBES OF THE FORT PECK RESERVATION1494,704$851,028
16PREWITT TRUST14713,582 †
17HUTTON HUGH L & ELAINE A14721 †
18HARDY INVESTMENTS L P14610,231 †
19SCHNITZLER CORP14511,013$4,698,633
20RICHLAND COUNTY142855 †
21BUZZARD'S GLORY FARMS INC1408,818$2,108,955
22CITY OF WOLF POINT140330$1,219,192
23ROBERT RALSTON REVOCABLE TRUST DTD 6/24/161396,650 †
24BYER DONALD L & ROGER L13933 †
25HARRISON LAND & LIVESTOCK LLC13816,538 †
26CROWLEY DARRYL1362,375$263,653
27STAR COULEE RANCH INC1349,047$1,233,857
28ANDERSON DIAMOND RANCH INC1327,217$1,229,646
29HOUG ROYAL &1321,333$272,678
30SCHMITZ JOE & ANNA TRUST1317,639 †
31MONTANA HOUSING LLC13121$1,214
32HOUG FARMS INC1306,313$1,476,227
33LOCKMAN DONALD A & CARMEN M TRUSTEES1305,911$1,943,979
34CITY OF POPLAR130306$827,752
35JORGENSON HAAKON B & LORI J1297,953$868,968
36TURTLE MOUNTAIN ALLOTMENT1294,942$467,212
37NESBIT JAMES C & MARY R1294,896$1,943,917
38NELSON MARK T & JO MARIE S1292,400$571,990
39MONTANA DAKOTA UTILITIES229351 †$739,380
40SWANK & SON INC1286,989$2,956,953
41SCHMITZ JEANNETTE1285,939 †
42TULE CREEK RANCH INC1285,919$1,301,180
43POWERS THOMAS P & AAFEDT DEAN W1284,651$682,108
44ULLMAN DUANE1273,968 †
45SALVEVOLD INC1272,973$1,983,970
46STEPPLER VERLIN & STEPPLER CODY1268,512 †
47MAHLEN MARK & KRISTINE2264,038 †$476,785
48RYDER PENNY1261,612$1,108,456
49PANASUK DIANE12610$850,789
50BEARS COULEE RANCH LLC1253,139$1,274,548

Owners are grouped on the name each county publishes. Collapsing spellings that mean the same owner would merge holdings that really are one, and is worth doing — but a wrong merge attributes land to someone who does not own it, on a page that names them, so until those rules are tested against real deeds the county’s own spelling is what is published here.

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