Baca County is a rural, agricultural region in southeastern Colorado that includes a short section of the historic Santa Fe Trail's Cimarron Route. More recently, the county was among the hardest hit during the 1930s "Dust Bowl," an event that precipitated a push by the Federal Government to purchase areas of cultivated land for soil conservation and subsequent rehabilitation to native grassland. Today,?the U.S. Forest Service supervises 220,000 acres of this land purchased in the 1930s, labeled the Cimarron National Grasslands, in both Baca County and neighboring Las Animas County. A similar area, the 520-square-mile Cimarron National Grassland, sits in adjacent Morton County, Kansas. A total of almost 100,000 acres were listed for sale in Baca County recently, representing a combined nearly $15 million in Baca County farms, ranches, and rural real estate for sale. Baca County ranks 54th out of 64 counties in the Centennial State for the total acreage of land currently advertised for sale. Of all locations in Baca County with farms and ranches for sale, Springfield had the most land for sale. Baca County has a large agricultural economy, with 737 farms recorded in the county during the latest U.S. Census. Farming activities in Baca County generate annual revenues of $14 million, most of which is from crops. Baca County is one of the ten largest counties in Colorado (2,557 square miles). It's located in the Southeast Colorado region of Colorado.