Largest Landowners in South Dakota

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

Some counties in South Dakota do not publish parcel acreage, so acres sums the county's own figure where there is one and the mapped boundary where there is not — marked † below.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	SD DEPT OF GAME, FISH & PARKS (CORP)	1	1,852	255,341	—
2	STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA	18	1,592	279,942 †	—
3	USA (CORP)	1	1,527	277,584 †	—
4	USA - USDA - BHNF	1	1,110	310,340	—
5	STATE OF SD	11	709	8,798 †	—
6	U S GOVERNMENT BUFFALO GAP NAT'L GRASSLANDS	1	692	227,395 †	—
7	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA	17	673	419,458 †	—
8	UNION COUNTY	1	591	1,163 †	—
9	SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL AND PUBLIC LANDS	1	546	73,483 †	—
10	SD DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION	14	526	1,340 †	—
11	SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION	7	380	2,299 †	—
12	HWY RTY	1	351	5,025 †	—
13	BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS	1	346	25,252 †	—
14	CITY OF SIOUX FALLS	1	344	1,043 †	—
15	USA - USDA - BGNG	1	336	50,096	—
16	LOWER BRULE SIOUX TRIBE	2	319	90,134 †	—
17	CITY OF SPEARFISH	1	282	2,748 †	—
18	BLM	2	270	29,047 †	—
19	WEINREIS BROTHERS LAND LLP	4	258	82,969 †	$12,852,130
20	USA	8	248	18,230 †	—
21	RINGNECK & WESTERN RAILROAD LLC	1	223	715 †	—
22	MACIEJEWSKI RANCH LIMITED PARTNERSHIP	1	208	31,810	—
23	CITY OF YANKTON	1	205	1,328 †	—
24	DAKOTA DUNES COMMUNITY	1	194	518 †	—
25	WHARF RESOURCES (U.S.A.) INC	1	192	3,049	—
26	CITY OF MADISON	1	191	428 †	—
27	BROOKINGS CITY	1	189	2,466 †	—
28	DEPT.OF GAME, FISH, & PARKS	1	184	12,127 †	—
29	NIELSON DEVELOPMENT LLC	2	178	219 †	—
30	MIDLAND FARMS LLC	1	174	26,638	—
31	KARLEN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP	1	167	18,010 †	—
32	NORTH SIOUX CITY	1	163	296 †	—
33	CUSTER NATIONAL FOREST	1	159	74,151 †	—
34	HARDING COUNTY	1	156	28,001	—
35	LINCOLN COUNTY	1	155	851 †	—
36	CITY OF DEADWOOD	1	151	340 †	—
37	BUCHHOLZ MARK	1	147	19,782 †	—
38	SD DEPT OF GAME, FISH PARKS	1	145	70,304	—
39	BROKEN BRIDGE RANCH LLC	2	145	29,589	—
40	WILLIAM & DIANNE SIMPSON	1	143	17,438	—
41	USA IN TRUST FOR THE LOWER BRULE SIOUX TRIBE	1	140	36,402 †	—
42	CHEYENNE RIVER SIOUX TRIBE	3	140	18,217 †	—
43	U.S.A.	3	139	11,386 †	—
44	U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE	2	137	10,387 †	—
45	U S GOVERNMENT BLACK HILLS NATIONAL FOREST	1	133	44,463 †	—
46	ARNESON RANCH INC	1	133	19,531	—
47	CITY OF STURGIS	1	132	1,992 †	—
48	BIES RANCH LAND, LLLP	1	126	13,851	—
49	FT PIERRE NATIONAL GRASSLAND	1	123	59,612 †	—
50	RAPID CREEK RANCH LLC ATTN LISA HAYNES	1	123	17,741	—

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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