Largest Landowners in North Dakota

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

Some counties in North Dakota do not publish parcel acreage, so acres sums the county's own figure where there is one and the mapped boundary where there is not — marked † below.

#	Owner	Counties	Parcels	Acres	Assessed value
1	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA	14	1,721	177,440 †	$1,760,686
2	STONEHAVEN DEVELOPMENT LLC	1	740	305 †	$9,805,000
3	US FOREST SERVICE	1	704	292,787 †	—
4	CITY OF MINOT	1	660	1,694 †	$9,221,000
5	STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA	17	408	50,512 †	$442,965
6	USA FISH & WILDLIFE C/O J CLARK SALYER REFUGE	1	307	23,780 †	—
7	U.S.A.	1	306	33,314 †	—
8	U S A	1	268	17,999 †	—
9	JESSICA STREICH OLSON TRSTEE	1	266	276 †	—
10	ND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC	1	256	56 †	$307,400
11	WARD COUNTY	1	252	774 †	$629,200
12	USA	6	242	43,790 †	—
13	CITY OF GRAND FORKS	1	236	1,383 †	$336,100
14	MINOT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT #1	1	221	132 †	$121,000
15	LAKELAND DAKOTA HOMES LLC	1	220	70 †	$4,791,000
16	THE COTEAU PROPERTIES COMPANY	1	217	22,316 †	—
17	52 PINES LLC	1	171	138 †	$1,911,000
18	CITY OF BELFIELD	1	169	161 †	—
19	RICHLAND COUNTY DRAINS	2	167	700 †	—
20	CITY OF TAYLOR	1	166	15 †	—
21	UNITED COMMUNITY BANK OF ND	1	155	48 †	$2,977,000
22	NORTH DAKOTA, STATE OF	2	153	10,351 †	$589,236
23	APPERT LAND ENTERPRISES LLLP	1	152	21,159 †	$16,637,300
24	STATE LAND DEPARTMENT	6	147	49,696 †	—
25	TIMOTHY WILWAND	1	147	15,032	$18,494,713
26	GENE & GYNELL HARRIS	1	136	19,988 †	—
27	WAHPETON CITY OF	1	135	474 †	—
28	CITY OF GLADSTONE	1	132	99 †	—
29	THOMSEN HOMES, LLC	1	132	27 †	$5,690,200
30	GREGORY S (GREG) SCHWAB	1	129	323 †	—
31	ND STATE GAME & FISH DEPT	3	124	10,302 †	$1,408,578
32	RICHLAND COUNTY DRAINS*	1	123	346 †	—
33	LRB,LLP	2	122	10,208	$11,980,321
34	701 DEVELOPMENT LLP	1	121	13 †	$1,713,000
35	MIKKELSON LAND, LLLP	1	119	5,493	$3,841,000
36	SILVER SPRINGS DEVELOPMENT INC	1	118	125 †	$3,328,000
37	NORTH DAKOTA STATE FORESTRY SE	1	113	10,952 †	—
38	US FISH & WILDLIFE	1	109	9,929 †	—
39	STATE OF ND-LEASEHOLD	1	106	15,360 †	—
40	USA FISH & WILDLIFE	1	105	11,443	—
41	NORTH DAKOTA GAME & FISH	3	104	8,049	—
42	HUBER PROPERTIES LLP	3	103	13,818 †	$3,771,930
43	THEODORE ROOSEVELT MEDORA FOUNDATION	1	103	4,085 †	—
44	SOO LINE RAILROAD COMPANY	4	103	600 †	$225,000
45	CRARY DEVELOPMENT, INC	1	102	24 †	$4,404,500
46	MILNOR CITY OF	1	101	69 †	—
47	US NATIONAL PARK SERVICE	1	98	46,077 †	—
48	AL R JOHNSON	1	98	9,674	$12,365,332
49	DOUBLE J MARTIN ND, LLC	1	97	23 †	$520,000
50	CITY OF RICHARDTON	1	97	17 †	—

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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