World's Largest Pecan

Seguin, Texas, United States

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A 16-by-8-foot fiberglass pecan outside the Texas Agricultural and Heritage Center (the Big Red Barn) in Seguin, Texas, built in 2011 by a Leadership Seguin class to regain a title lost to Brunswick, Missouri. A 1962 pecan stands at the Guadalupe County Courthouse.

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World's Largest Pecan

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Site-level location · 29.5688° N, 97.9647° W

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The story

Seguin, Texas, has claimed the title of world's largest pecan more than once, and it has two giant nuts to show for it.

The first dates from 1962. According to Texas Highways in 2024, local dentist Edmund “Doc” Darilek, who had planted a pecan orchard in 1958, made a pecan 5 feet long and weighing 1,000 pounds and displayed it beside the Guadalupe County Courthouse. He named it for Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, the 16th-century Spanish explorer who, the magazine says, called the Guadalupe River “the river of nuts”.

Seguin held the title until 1982, when pecan farmers in Brunswick, Missouri, built a concrete pecan measuring 7 by 12 feet and weighing 12,000 pounds beside U.S. Route 24. Texas Highways reports that Brunswick residents sent postcards of it to Seguin’s Chamber of Commerce.

The answer came from the Chamber’s Leadership Seguin class of 2010 to 2011, which raised money from the community and organised a 16-by-8-foot fiberglass pecan. Visit Seguin says work began in July 2011, took about three months and drew around $5,000 in donations. The pecan stands outside the Texas Agricultural and Heritage Center, known locally as the Big Red Barn, which Texas Highways describes as the centre of activity during Seguin’s Pecan Fest each October.

Seguin’s claim is not unchallenged. The Port Arthur visitor bureau describes a 17-foot fiberglass pecan at Groves City Hall as “what could be the World’s Largest Pecan”.

The two Seguin pecans are at separate addresses: the 1962 original in the downtown courthouse square, and the 2011 pecan on Cordova Road.

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A photo stop with the fiberglass pecan outside the Big Red Barn, where Seguin's Pecan Fest centres each October. The pecan stands outside the centre. The 1962 pecan is separate, at the courthouse downtown.

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Outside the Texas Agricultural and Heritage Center (Big Red Barn), 390 Cordova Road, Seguin. The 1962 pecan is at the Guadalupe County Courthouse, 101 E. Court Street, downtown.

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