FY2024 USDA AFIDA public-record summary · FIPS 53073

Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land in Whatcom County, Washington

Name: FY2024 AFIDA public-record summary for Whatcom County, Washington
Creator: AFIDA Watch

The FY2024 USDA AFIDA dataset used by AFIDA Watch contains 329 records associated with Whatcom County, Washington, representing 56,207.62 reported acres and 226 distinct Owner IDs. Luxembourg, Canada, and Germany are the leading reported country/source categories by acreage. Owner names are display labels; county and owner aggregations use source Owner IDs.

Reported acres56,207.62Sum of Number of Acres

AFIDA records329FY2024 source rows

Distinct Parcel IDs329Deterministic parcel count

Distinct Owner IDs226Owner names are display labels

Country/source codes12AFIDA-reported source field

AFIDA data for Whatcom County

This county profile summarizes reported interests in the FY2024 AFIDA source data. It does not locate exact parcels, determine beneficial ownership, or establish motive, wrongdoing, legal status, or national-security significance.

Acquisition-year record

Reported acquisition years range from 1967 through 2024 across 49 distinct years.

The source field is Acquisition Year. It is not relabeled as Purchase Year.

Leading reported country/source categories

Ranked by reported acres

Country/source category	Reported acres	County share	Records
LUXEMBOURGSource code 442	14,572.00	25.9%	1
CANADASource code 124	14,439.15	25.7%	289
GERMANYSource code 276	10,482.00	18.6%	7
UNITED KINGDOMSource code 826	8,280.77	14.7%	7
JAPANSource code 392	4,034.00	7.2%	7

Country names and codes are source fields. Special AFIDA codes remain separate and are not treated as countries.

Reported land-use composition

County total

Land use	Reported acres	Share
Forest	30,096.87	53.5%
Crop	14,505.65	25.8%
Pasture	6,034.40	10.7%
Other Agriculture	2,990.42	5.3%
Other Non-Ag	2,580.28	4.6%

Leading AFIDA Owner IDs

Limited public view

Owner IDs are stable source identifiers within this FY2024 dataset. Owner names below are display labels only and do not establish beneficial ownership or cross-year identity.

Owner display label / Owner ID	Country/source	Reported acres	County share	Parcels
Stewart Mountain Forest LLCOwner ID 33239	LUXEMBOURG	14,572.00	25.9%	1
SEEFELD CORPORATIONOwner ID 25850	GERMANY	5,565.00	9.9%	2
H.C. GRAF ZU TOERRING'SCHE GRUNDBESITZ KGOwner ID 823	GERMANY	3,723.00	6.6%	2

Reported value fields

Not calculated from one another

Purchase Price - as reported$242.18M

Positive: 290
Reported $0: 31
Blank: 8

Estimated Value - as reported$45.83M

Positive: 38
Reported $0: 253
Blank: 38

Current Value - as reported$300.09M

Positive: 327
Reported $0: 2
Blank: 0

Reported-zero convention: A reported $0 means the FY2024 AFIDA source dataset used for this profile records zero in that field. It does not establish why zero was reported.

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Source and methodology

This page uses USDA FSA AFIDA FY2024 underlying public data. Rows are identified by Report Year + Owner ID + Parcel ID. County and owner rollups use Owner ID; owner names are display labels. Dollar fields are presented as reported and are not calculated from one another.

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Dataset fingerprint: SHA-256 592664aaa9bb5328154b9d6f418ca212540b83e9b8a3855512c1c69261fb6fb2
Report year: FY2024 · County FIPS: 53073