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The phrases "front 40" and "back 40," referring to farm fields, indicate the front and back quarter-quarter sections of land. One of the reasons for creating sections of 640 acres (260 ha) was the ease of dividing into halves and quarters while still maintaining a whole number of acres.
The "lower 40" in a quarter-section is the one at lowest elevation, i.e. in the direction that water drains. The "lower 40" is frequently the location of or the direction of a stream or a pond. The phrase "40 acres and a mule" was the compensation apocryphally promised by the Freedmen's Bureau following the American Civil War.
RKO Forty Acres was a film studio backlot in the United States, owned by RKO Pictures (and later Desilu Productions), located in Culver City, California.Best known as Forty Acres [1] and "the back forty," [2] it was also called "Desilu Culver," [3] the "RKO backlot," and "Pathé 40 Acre Ranch," depending on which studio owned the property at the time.
LSDs can be "quarter-quarter sections" (square land parcels roughly 1 ⁄ 4 mi [400 m] on a side, comprising roughly 40 acres [160,000 m 2] in area)—but this is not necessary. Many are other fractions of a section (a half-quarter section—roughly 80 acres [320,000 m 2] in area is common). LSDs may be square, rectangular, and occasionally ...
The 40 Acre Conservation League acquired more than 650 acres of Sierra forest land in the Emigrant Gap area of Placer County in August, using a $3 million award from a pair of conservation groups ...
The 40 Acre League's Jade Stevens sits beside Lake Putt, where the league recently purchased 650 acres. The land will be adapted for recreation and minority-owned small outdoor ventures in ...
General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule. Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha ...
A 40-acre glamping property in the remote wilderness of California’s Kings Canyon National Park is for sale for $5.35 million. Sequoia High Sierra Camp in Fresno County offers 35 established ...