Seymour and Baylor county is fundamentally agricultural. The United States agricultural census for 2002 reported that the county harvested 636,391 bushels of wheat that year. The census also credited the county with 195,800 bushels of oats and 65,225 bushels of sorghum. Cotton production was 5,870 bales, and 73,079 cattle and lesser numbers of other livestock were reported to round out a fairly well-diversified agricultural economy. The total agricultural income for the county averaged nearly $20 million in the 1980s and increased to an average of $40 million in the 1990s. In 2002 the arable land included 18,000 irrigated acres. The county had three banks with total assets of $73,205,000.

U.S. Highway 183/283 runs from north to south across the county, and U.S. 82/277 goes from southwest to northeast. These are supplemented by several farm-to-market and local roads. Baylor County communities include Bomarton, Red Springs, Round Timber, Westover, and Seymour. Recreation in the county is —mainly outdoor activities. The oldest event is the annual Cowboys' Reunion, which was first held in 1896 and in its early years featured Indians; it has been renamed the Settlers' Reunion. Lake Kemp, on the Wichita River, was opened in 1924 behind its new dam and in the 1980s provided recreational as well as irrigationqv water for Wichita Falls and other towns.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Baylor County Historical Society, Salt Pork to Sirloin, Vol. 1: The History of Baylor County, Texas, from 1879 to 1930 (Quanah, Texas: Nortex, 1972); Vol. 2: The History of Baylor County, Texas, from 1878 to Present (1977). Sarah Ann Britton, The Early History of Baylor County (Dallas: Story Book Press, 1955). Floyd Benjamin Streeter, "The Millett Cattle Ranch in Baylor County, Texas," Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 22 (1949).

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