THE FOARD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks setting.
Foard County has 704.4 square miles of land in Texas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Foard County: Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks, Red Prairie, Flat Tablelands and Valleys.
Canyons, mesas, badlands and river breaks border the High Plains. This more dissected country includes grassland and shrub-covered slopes, with sharper terrain changes than the neighboring plains.
Regional context: Southwestern Tablelands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Foard County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks64.4%
- Red Prairie34.2%
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys1.4%
Central Great Plains in Foard County
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Foard County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Foard County, including Crowell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Foard County by land and water
The Census records 3.29 square miles of water within Foard County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Foard County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Foard County has 373.5 times the land area of nearby Crowell city (1.89 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Baylor County, Cottle County, Hardeman County, King County, Knox County, Wilbarger County within Texas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

