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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. Lot and block survey system - Wikipedia

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    a description of the map's place of official recording (e.g., recorded in the files of the County Engineer). 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.

  5. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    In the original Homestead Act of 1862, during the Lincoln administration, each settler was allocated 160 acres (0.65 km 2) of land, a quarter-section. Later amendments of the Homestead Act allocated more land, as much as 640 acres (2.6 km 2), a section. This was a good revision to apply to land that was drier or more desolate than the earlier ...

  6. Survey township - Wikipedia

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    Of the civil townships shown on this map, only Pine Township in the north exactly matches a survey township with 36 sections. A survey township , sometimes called a Congressional township or just township , as used by the United States Public Land Survey System and by Canada's Dominion Land Survey is a nominally-square area of land that is ...

  7. Square kilometre - Wikipedia

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    The map shows that the area of the island is about two square kilometres. Topographical map grids are worked out in metres, with the grid lines being 1,000 metres apart. 1:100,000 maps are divided into squares representing 1 km 2, each square on the map being one square centimetre in area and representing 1 km 2 on the surface of the Earth.

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  9. Measurement of land in Punjab - Wikipedia

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    A killa or acre is measured rectangularly, reckoned as an area 36 karams (198 ft) x 40 karams (220 ft) (43,560 square ft). 1 /5th of a killa or acre is known as bigha 1 Karam = 5.5 feet = 1.83; or Gaj; 1 Yard or Gaj = 36 Inch = 0.91 Metre = 3 feet; 1 Sq Yard = 9 Sq Feet; To convert Sq feet to Sq Yard = Divide by 9