LandBrief

Largest Landowners in Washington

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

Some counties in Washington do not publish parcel acreage, so acres sums the county's own figure where there is one and the mapped boundary where there is not — marked † below.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
1REFERENCE13,4477,493 †—
2SEATTLE CITY OF DPR11,6615,417 †—
3KING COUNTY-PARKS11,52828,833 †—
4PIERCE COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS11,3456,426 †—
5DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES21,193143,241 †—
6SPOKANE COUNTY11,08512,728 †—
7SEATTLE HOUSING AUTHORITY1997233 †—
8SPOKANE, CITY OF19803,934 †—
9KENT CITY OF19682,915 †—
10IH6 PROPERTY WASHINGTON LP3957130 †$57,795,300
11WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY3917311,806 †—
12UNITED STATES3779294,609 †—
13STATE OF WASHINGTON776367,715 †$8,830,000
14KING COUNTY-WLRD SWS1756593 †—
15MUCKLESHOOT FEDERAL CORP173143,494 †—
16CITY OF TACOMA - GG16471,030 †—
17PUGET SOUND ENERGY/ELEC46204,359 †$13,139,900
18USA6571101,677 †$16,296,200
19KING COUNTY-PROPERTY SVCS1567475 †—
20VAAGEN BROS LUMBER CO INC154245,422—
21WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES1530146,818 †—
22SEATTLE CITY OF SPU-WTR1488102,452 †—
23BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY64832,124 †—
24WASHINGTON STATE OF445423,739 †—
25PORT BLAKELY TREE FARMS LDT PT143775,679—
26CITY OF TACOMA - TPU14284,333—
27MUCKLESHOOT INDIAN TRIBE341912,016 †$597,500
28DOUGLASS, HARLEY C141769—
29BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS2412161,757 †—
30BNSF24124,137 †—
31AUBURN CITY OF23951,520 †—
32PIERCE COUNTY TAX TITLE1395366 †—
33UNITED STATES OF AMERICA939363,914 †$13,208,800
34RENTON CITY OF13821,568 †—
35JORGENSEN TIMBER LLC337715,943$784,810
36OLYMPIA, CITY OF13723,022 †$267,386,600
37SAMMAMISH CITY OF13671,005 †—
38VAAGEN BROS LUMBER INC136622,519—
39BELLEVUE CITY OF PARKS13662,204 †—
402018-2 IH BORROWER LP236575 †—
41Current Information Pending13622,141 †—
42USA IN TRUST23601,151 †—
43SNOQUALMIE CITY OF13481,381 †—
44KIRKLAND CITY OF1347841 †—
45ISSAQUAH CITY OF13441,846 †—
46FEDERAL WAY CITY OF13411,191 †—
47CITY OF SPOKANE1340677 †—
48WASH STATE DEPT PARKS & REC133619,610—
49JOHN HANCOCK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY233561,833—
50STEVENS COUNTY13344,977 †—

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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