Conservation Properties for Sale in Foard County, Texas

A number of historic cattle ranches dot the county, which includes cattle ranching along with oil and agriculture as its chief economic drivers. Although the productivity of oil fields here has slowed in recent decades, Foard County has produced over 20 million barrels of crude since the first field was drilled in the 1920s. Set to the east of the Panhandle on the drier end of the Texas Plains, Crowell is the county seat. Land for sale in Foard County, Texas, recently totaled approximately $17 million and almost 5,000 acres. Foard County ranks 220th out of 254 counties in the Lone Star State for the total acreage of land currently advertised for sale. Of all ranches, farms, hunting land and other rural land and acreage for sale in Foard County, Crowell featured the most land for sale. Agriculture and farming drives the Foard County economy, with 194 farms recorded in the county during the U.S. Census in 2012. Farming activities in Foard County generate annual revenues of $4 million, the majority of which comes from livestock products. Foard County is Texas's 221st largest county (707 square miles). It's located in the North Central Plains Texas region of the state.