Baca County, Colorado Land Market Insights and Pricing

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 combined value of farms, ranches, and rural real estate for sale in Colorado's Baca County recently on Land.com was $19 million. This represents almost 100,000 acres of land and rural real estate for sale in Baca County. Baca County ranks 46th in the state for the total number of acres of land currently advertised for sale. Walsh 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 biggest counties in Colorado (2,557 square miles). It's located in the Southeast Colorado region of Colorado.