Foard County
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Foard County is a county located in Texas in the United States. It is one of Texas's 254 counties that together make up the state's local government structure.
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Named after
- Robert Levi Foard
- Seat
- Crowell
- Largest city
- Crowell
- Total
- 710 sq mi (1,830 km )
- Land
- 704 sq mi (1,824 km )
- Water
- 3.5 sq mi (9 km ) 0.5%
- Estimate 2025
- 1,044
- Density
- 1.532/sq mi (0.5914/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 13th
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Foard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,095. Its county seat is Crowell, which is also the county's only incorporated community. The county is named for Robert Levi Foard, an attorney who served as a major with the Confederate Army, in the American Civil War.
Foard County was one of 46 prohibitions, or entirely dry, counties in the state of Texas until voters approved a referendum to permit the legal sale of alcoholic beverages in May 2006.