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. There was a combined nearly $18 million of ranches, farms, hunting land and other rural land and acreage for sale in Texas's Foard County recently on Land.com. The total size of all Foard County farms and ranches for sale was almost 6,000 acres. Foard County ranks 218th out of 254 counties in Texas for the total acreage of land currently advertised for sale. Crowell featured the most land for sale. Its economy is defined as agricultural, with 194 farms recorded in the county during the most recent U.S. Census. 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 biggest county (707 square miles). It's located in the North Central Plains Texas region of Texas.