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  2. Acre - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of largest lakes of the United States by volume - Wikipedia

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    3,364,500 acreft (4.2 km 3) 100 ft (30 m) man-made 47: Lake Amistad: Mexico - Texas: 3,159,270 acreft (3.9 km 3) 200 ft (61 m) man-made 48: Lake Francis Case: South Dakota: 3,124,000 acreft (3.9 km 3) 140 ft (43 m) man-made 49: Mille Lacs Lake: Minnesota: 2,782,736 acreft (3.4 km 3) 42 ft (13 m) 50: Lake Saint Clair: Michigan - Ontario

  4. American football field - Wikipedia

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    The entire field is a rectangle 360 feet (110 m) long by 160 feet (49 m) wide; covering a total of 1.32 acres. [1] The longer lines are the sidelines and the shorter lines are called end lines. NFL rules call for the sidelines and end lines to be 6 feet (1.8 m) wide, though the lines may be narrower on fields used for multiple sports or by ...

  5. Acre-foot - Wikipedia

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    As the name suggests, an acre-foot is defined as the volume of one acre of surface area to a depth of one foot. Since an acre is defined as a chain by a furlong (i.e. 66 ft × 660 ft or 20.12 m × 201.17 m), an acre-foot is 43,560 cubic feet (1,233.5 m 3). There has been two definitions of the acre-foot (differing by about 0.0006%), using ...

  6. Hundred Acre Wood - Wikipedia

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    Five Hundred Acre Wood lies a short distance to the north-east, while the "Enchanted Place" is a small wooded area 660 feet (200 m) to the north. A memorial plaque dedicated to A. A. Milne and his illustrator, Ernest H. Shepard, lies 330 feet (100 m) away. Five Hundred Acre Wood lies a short distance to the north-east.

  7. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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    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. A section can be halved seven times in this way, down to a 5-acre (2 ha) parcel, or half of a quarter-quarter-quarter section—an easily surveyed 50-square-chain (2 ha) area. This ...

  8. Template:Convert/list of units/area - Wikipedia

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    1.0 ha (2.5 acres) Imperial & US customary: square mile: sqmi Q232291: sq mi 1.0 sq mi (2.6 km 2) sqmi km2; acre: acre Q81292 (none) 1.0 acre (0.40 ha) square yard: sqyd Q1550511: sq yd 1.0 sq yd (0.84 m 2) square foot: sqft (ft2, sqfoot, foot2) Q857027: sq ft long code "sqfoot (foot2)" outputs square foot (and never feet) 1.0 sq ft (0.093 m 2 ...

  9. Chain (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The only exceptions to this rule are special requirements for measurement in feet in mineral surveys and townsite surveys. [13] Linear Measurement 1 Chain = 100 links or 66 feet 1 Mile = 80 chains or 5,280 feet. Area Measurement 1 Acre = 10 square chains or 43,560 square feet 1 square mile = 640 acres