Largest Landowners in Virginia

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

Some counties in Virginia do not publish parcel acreage, so acres sums the county's own figure where there is one and the mapped boundary where there is not — marked † below.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
1NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST.,15,0202,568 †
2PARK AUTHORITY FAIRFAX COUNTY,11,90222,784 †
3City Of Norfolk11,8513,763 †
4COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA221,46537,772 †$98,415,500
5Nrha1811473 †
6CITY OF CHESAPEAKE27165,094 †
7CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS17042,429 †
8BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FAIRFAX COUNTY,16613,629 †
9COUNTY OF HENRICO16387,059 †
10COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD255310,056 †
11SUFFOLK CITY OF15043,744 †$186,129,100
12CITY OF PORTSMOUTH24971,445 †
13REDEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING AUTHORITY, FAIRFAX COUNTY1489225 †
14NVR INC10469143 †$5,013,300
15CHEEK JOHN W &146846,262$212,050,800
16HARVEST TIME MINISTRIES INC1456778 †$302,147,700
17CEMETERY17403284 †$195,600
18ELSWICK GREGORY D, FRANK A DIXON &137619 †$6,580,000
19CITY OF PETERSBURG33573,056
20RESTON ASSOCIATION,13471,191 †
21PRHA1346153 †
22WILLIAMS GLEN M TRUST B133919 †$16,475,400
23UNITED STATES OF AMERICA1832574,068 †$174,403,282
24NASH STAFFORD LLC1323545
25LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY13139,654 †$16,169,900
26SURBER JAMES H & JUDY L131015 †$9,661,000
27CNX GAS COMPANY LLC230959,313 †
28LAWSON KENNETH MICHAEL130920 †$52,548,100
29CITY OF BRISTOL VA13021,805 †
30STAFFORD COUNTY VIRGINIA13021,417
31GOLDSTAR BARRACKS OWNER LLC130152 †$25,010,100
32SATIAN, SARKIS TRS &129243 †$3,967,000
33RATCLIFF RUBY R. & A.M.129136 †
34COSMOPOLITAN CIRCLE ASSOCIATES LLC,1288109 †
35USA428363,445 †$85,857,000
36JESSEE STONE COMPANY1279184 †$5,313,900
37SCHOOL BOARD OF FAIRFAX COUNTY,12543,331 †
38VANTAGE RESIDENTIAL ACQUISITION LLC,1253445 †
39LORTON STATION WINDSOR LLC,1250433 †
40JAMERSON REAL ESTATE INC1245649 †
41Comm Of Va124371 †
42BURKE CENTRE CONSERVANCY,1237481 †
43N N R & H A1233201 †
44FAIRFIELD BROADWATER LLC123072 †
45FARMER DANNY K OR ANITA J122744 †
46PARKVIEW HOLDINGS LLC122415,732 †
47JLV PARTNERS I LP,1220108 †
48U S GOVERNMENT621422,470 †
49US PARK SERVICE1213161
50STANLEY MARTIN HOMES LLC3212159 †$732,600

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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