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A quarter section is 160 acres (65 ha) and a "quarter-quarter section" is 40 acres (16 ha). In 1832 the smallest area of land that could be acquired was reduced to the 40-acre (16 ha) quarter-quarter section, and this size parcel became entrenched in American mythology.
One acre equals 1 ⁄ 640 (0.0015625) square mile, 4,840 square yards, 43,560 square feet, [2] or about 4,047 square metres (0.4047 hectares) (see below).While all modern variants of the acre contain 4,840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends upon the particular yard on which it is based.
A lot has defined boundaries (or borders) which are documented somewhere, but the boundaries need not be shown on the land itself. Most lots are small enough to be mapped as if they are flat, in spite of the curvature of the Earth. A characteristic of the size of a lot is its area. The area is typically determined as if the land is flat and ...
If a local policy, such as a minimum lot size of half an acre, or a ban on duplexes and triplexes, were found to be discriminatory based on income, the burden would shift to the municipality to ...
The legal description of a 2.5-acre (10,000 m 2) property under the Lot and Block system may be something like; Lot 5 of Block 2 of the South Subdivision plat as recorded in Map Book 21, Page 33 at the Recorder of Deeds.
The government wished both to distribute land to Revolutionary War soldiers in reward for their services and to sell land as a way of raising money for the nation. Before this could happen, the land needed to be surveyed. [2] The Land Ordinance of 1785 marks the beginning of the Public Land Survey System.
A superblock, or super-block, is an area of urban land that is bounded by arterial roads and the size of multiple typically sized city blocks. [3] Within the superblock, the local road network, if any, is designed to serve only local needs.
A cleanup project will remove arsenic, heavy metals, PCBs and other contaminants from a half-acre lot at North Front and Elm streets, just blocks from the Delaware River waterfront, according to ...