Cattle and ranching · operation or companytop ten landowner
Blue Head Ranch
the 90 Mile Prairie ranch
- Entity of record
- Blue Head Land & Cattle Co LLC on the 2025 roll; LTL Real Estate Holdings LLC on the 2023 easement
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Acres (module, 2025 roll)
- 31,304
- Placed at
- 2019: first documented year on the map; founding year not recorded
- Place
- Lake Placid area, Highlands County, extending into Glades County
- District
- The Ridge
- Status as of 12 September 2026
- Operating; a working ranch of about 4,000 head per the state record, inside a 43,051 acre Florida Forever project.
- Connections
- 3 edges, 3 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.019 (rank 61 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.000 (rank 106) · outside share 0.00
- Confidence
- High · sources: [SPPBH] [DEPBH] [DEPLTL] [OIKB] [MOD] (register)
The historic rangeland known in pioneer times as the 90 Mile Prairie passes from the estate of Ben Hill Griffin Jr in a 66,128 acre closing through SPP Land in 2019; the state's 2023 easement record names LTL Real Estate Holdings LLC with Lee A. Lightsey and Tracy V. Lightsey [SPPBH][DEPBH][DEPLTL]. The roll entity Blue Head Land & Cattle Co LLC carries 31,304 acres in Glades County on the module's owner table; the map records the roll entity and the easement record without asserting more than they state [MOD]. The ranch describes 6,000 Florida Cracker cattle on land known in pioneer times as the 90 Mile Prairie [OIKB].
Connections
Location and lineage
- received land or role fromBen Hill Griffin Jrhis estate's 66,128 acres pass to new ownership in a closing through SPP Land2019
Support
- supported byBlue Head Ranch conservation easementabout 1,291 acres of the ranch under state easement2023
Collaboration
- collaborationBright Hour RanchFlorida Forever corridor anchors east and west of the prairieongoing