{"id":423793,"date":"2026-09-02T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423793\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:40:00","slug":"how-much-texas-land-does-this-yellowstone-creator-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423793\/","title":{"rendered":"How much Texas land does this ‘Yellowstone’ creator own?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fictional Yellowstone ranch was famously described as being about the size of Rhode Island. In real life, creator Taylor Sheridan has built a Texas ranching empire spanning more than 267,000 acres. Through the success of his multiple TV shows, Sheridan has now become one of the largest landowners in the Lone Star State<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sheridan sits at No. 49 on the Land Report’s Top 100 landowners<\/a> across the U.S. He may not own as many Texas acres as the King Ranch heirs or billionaires like Stan\u00a0Kroenke<\/a>, but he owns or controls more acreage than the entire city of Austin.<\/p>\n

Sheridan also owns the 179-acre Papa’s Creek Ranch in Wyoming, according to the Land Report, but all his other properties are in the Lone Star State. He\u00a0first purchased the over 600-acre Bosque Ranch for a reported $264 million in 2013,\u00a0according to Realtor.com<\/a>, and transformed it into the headquarters for\u00a0Yellowstone,\u00a01883,\u00a0Lioness,\u00a01923,\u00a0and more of Sheridan’s TV shows.<\/p>\n

His largest land acquisition came when he led a group of investors that purchased the historic Four Sixes Ranch. The 266,255-acre ranch was founded in 1870, while its current King County headquarters division was acquired in 1900. Reports have placed the sale price between $320 million and $330 million, though the final price was not publicly disclosed. The ranch later became a prominent Yellowstone filming location.<\/p>\n

All told, Sheridan owns or controls around 267,000 acres in Texas. For context, the city of Austin covers roughly 204,000 acres<\/a>, meaning his Texas ranch holdings are larger than\u00a0the Capital City’s land area.<\/p>\n

However, despite his many acres, Sheridan doesn’t even crack the Top 5 of the largest landowners in Texas. Read more about the real land barons here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fictional Yellowstone ranch was famously described as being about the size of Rhode Island. In real life,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2107,2321,820,30030],"class_list":["post-423793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysaentertainment","tag-mysarealestate","tag-mysastaff","tag-mysatx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}