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. The value of farms, ranches, hunting land and other land for sale in Colorado's Baca County recently on Land.com was almost $10 million. This represents 9,000 acres of farms, ranches, and rural real estate for sale in Baca County. Baca County ranks 60th out of 64 counties in Colorado for the total acreage of land currently advertised for sale. Among cities in Baca County with ranches, farms, hunting land and other rural land and acreage for sale, Two Buttes had the most land for sale. Its economy is defined as agricultural, with 737 farms recorded in the county during the most recent 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.