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  2. Acre-foot - Wikipedia

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    The acre-foot is a non- SI unit of volume equal to about 1,233 m 3 commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, sewer flow capacity, irrigation water, [1] and river flows. An acre-foot equals approximately an eight-lane swimming pool, 82 ft (25 m) long, 52 ft (16 m) wide ...

  3. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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    The primary grid pattern is of quarter sections (1⁄2 mi × 1⁄2 mi (800 m × 800 m)). In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally one square mile (2.6 square kilometers), containing 640 acres (260 hectares), with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid. [1]

  4. Acre - Wikipedia

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    The entire yellow square is one square mile; the dark blue area at right represents 100 acres. The acre (/ ˈeɪkər / AY-kər) is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square ...

  5. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The 'perfect acre' [2] is a rectangular area of 43,560 square feet, bounded by sides 660 feet (a furlong) long and 66 feet (a chain) wide (220 yards by 22 yards) or, equivalently, 40 rods by 4 rods. An acre is therefore 160 square rods or 10 square chains. The name perch derives from the Ancient Roman unit, the pertica.

  6. Medieval weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    foot; perch, used variously to measure length or area; acre and acre's breadth; furlong; mile; The best-attested of these is the perch, which varied in length from 10 to 25 feet, with the most common value (16 1 ⁄ 2 feet or 5.03 m) remaining in use until the twentieth century. [1] Later development of the English system continued in 1215 in ...

  7. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of the ...

  8. Measurement of land in Punjab - Wikipedia

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    Current standard measurement of farm land. A commonly used land measurement unit in Punjab is karam or square karam. [3] Other units include the Sarsai and units listed. [4] This the current system of measurement of farm land. All Units. 1 karam × 1 karam = 1 sq. karam. 5.5 feet × 5.5 feet = 30.25 sq. feet. 30.25 square feet = 1 Sarsai.

  9. List of U.S. states and territories by area - Wikipedia

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    The second largest state, Texas, has only 40% of the total area of the largest state, Alaska. Rhode Island is the smallest state by total area and land area. San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous U.S. and is larger than each of the nine smallest states; it is larger than the four smallest states combined.