Beaufort County records parcel acreage that cannot be right — its recorded total is many times the county’s actual land area — so the county’s own figure is withheld here. These owners are ranked by parcel count, which their acreage never affected. The parcel counts and the ownership are the county’s own records and are unaffected.
Beaufort County does not publish parcel acreage, so acreage below is measured from each owner's parcel boundaries. That is a close match for deeded acreage — the median of the two agrees where counties publish both — but it is not the deed, and it will differ where a deed runs to the centreline of a road or where several units share one footprint.