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 around $16 million of land for sale in Foard County, Texas, recently on Land.com. The total acreage of all Foard County land for sale was around 5,000 acres. Foard County ranks 224th out of 254 counties in the Lone Star State for the total number of acres of land currently advertised for sale. There were two properties listed as sold in Foard County through the Land Network Comparable Sales Program. This represented a total value of $596,925. Crowell featured the most land for sale. Foard County has a large agricultural economy, with 194 farms recorded in the county during the latest 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 largest county (707 square miles). It's located in the North Central Plains Texas region of the state.