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 nearly 9,000 acres were listed for sale in Colorado's Baca County recently; the value of all Baca County land for sale was approximately $11 million. Baca County ranks 61st in Colorado for the combined amount of land currently advertised for sale. Among cities in Baca County with ranches, farms, hunting land and other rural land and acreage for sale, Springfield featured the most land for sale. Agriculture and farming drives the Baca County economy, with 737 farms recorded in the county during the U.S. Census in 2012. 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.