LandBrief

Largest Landowners in West Virginia

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

Some counties in West Virginia do not publish parcel acreage, so acres sums the county's own figure where there is one and the mapped boundary where there is not — marked † below.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
1UNITED STATES OF AMERICA302,913479,419 †$648,987,700
2BOARD OF EDUCATION361,3454,643 †$33,359,300
3CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY692524,398 †—
4KELLEY L T &1786352 †$2,570,300
5WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF185961,773 †$2,613,200
6WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY55882,978 †—
7HEARTWOOD FORESTLAND FUND IV1558558,254 †—
8COASTAL FOREST RESOURCES CO1453343,919 †$439,100
9CONSOL MINING COMPANY LLC548711,801 †—
10NAJ LLC9487640 †$4,726,000
11HEARTWOOD FORESTLAND FUND IV LIMITED PARTNERSHIP145440,761 †—
12WV DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION25443704 †$562,200
13JUSTICE HOLDINGS LLC14291,280—
14MIKE ROSS INC1741820,574 †$548,800
15STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA3139619,026 †$5,031,500
16CEMETERY33377291 †$4,600
17HEARTWOOD FORESTLAND FUND IV L P135677,403—
18WESTERN POCAHONTAS PROPERTIES635346,032 †—
19POCAHONTAS SURFACE3339131,615—
20SNOWSHOE MOUNTAIN INC131910,270$85,824,000
21CITY OF BLUEFIELD1315438 †—
22COROTOMAN INC1309395 †$5,526,200
23CITY OF MORGANTOWN13071,374 †—
24EQUITY HOLDINGS LLC1291653 †$1,242,600
25ROWLAND LAND COMPANY LLC429047,673 †—
26WV DEPT OF HIGHWAYS30263990 †$17,800
27APPALACHIAN POWER CO162564,280 †$2,263,600
28MONONGAHELA POWER COMPANY152553,392 †$39,500
29WV DEPT OF TRANS DIV OF1253338—
30WEST VIRGINIA DEPT OF172481,472 †$1,306,000
31BOONE EAST DEVELOPMENT CO624621,308 †$21,593,800
32W V DEPT OF HIGHWAYS132452,095 †$25,300
33WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY224451,465 †—
34BEAVER COAL COMPANY LIMITED224432,567—
35CNX LAND LLC32437,796 †—
36ALLEGHENY FORESTLANDS LLC1224244,472 †$170,800
37STATE ROAD COMMISSION24238446 †$3,100
38MCDOWELL COUNTY COMMISSION1231292 †—
39ALYESKA INC12303,779 †—
40CHARLESTON CITY OF1226815 †$24,978,900
41CITY OF PARKERSBURG1221359—
42APPALACHIA PROPERTY722153 †—
43MONTROSE ENTERPRISES221871 †$339,200
44U S A1121724,706 †—
45W VA DEPT OF HIGHWAYS22213464 †$21,000
46APPALACHIAN POWER COMPANY122105,550 †$12,549,566
47SMITH RENTALS LLC120331 †—
48ROSE VIRA1202155 †—
49WEST VA DEPT OF HWYS1196119 †$8,296,900
50MONONGAHELA POWER CO201951,344 †$379,200

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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