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One Bigha in UP ranges from 5 biswa to 20 biswa. Here one Biswa is 1,361.25 square feet (126.464 m 2) or 151.25 square yard. In Western UP, 1 bigha is usually equal to 5 biswa i.e. 6,806.25 square feet (632.321 m 2) or 756.25 square yard. In some districts it can be 6.6667 biswa i.e. 9,075 square feet (843.1 m 2) or 1,008.33 square yard.
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 ...
In Israel and Turkey, the dunam is 1,000 square metres (10,764 sq ft), which is 1 decare. From the Ottoman period and through the early years of the British Mandate for Palestine , the size of a dunam was 919.3 square metres (9,895 sq ft), but in 1928, the metric dunam of 1,000 square metres (0.10 ha) was adopted, and this is still used today ...
Gunter's chain was 66 feet, or one chain (20.1 metres), in length (i.e. one tenth of a furlong) and consisted of 100 links, making each link 1 ⁄ 1000 furlong (201 millimetres). The decimal nature of these units and of the device made it easy to calculate the area of a rectangle of land in acres and decimal fractions of an acre. [5]
The hectare (/ ˈ h ɛ k t ɛər,-t ɑːr /; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm 2), that is, 10,000 square metres (10,000 m 2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is about 0.405 hectares and one hectare contains about ...
Hermosa Beach was originally part of the 1784 Rancho San Pedro Spanish land grant that later became the ten-mile (16 km) ocean frontage of Rancho Sausal Redondo.In 1900, a tract of 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) was purchased for $35 per acre from A. E. Pomroy, then owner of the greater part of Rancho Sausal Redondo.
Almaden Quicksilver County Park, 4,147 acres (16.78 km 2) of former mercury mines in South San Jose (operated and maintained by the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department). Alum Rock Park, 718 acres (2.91 km 2) in East San Jose, the oldest municipal park in California and one of the largest municipal parks in the United States.
Many houses in Lafayette Square are built with a blending of Greek Revival, Federal and Italianate styles. The architecture of St. Louis exhibits a variety of commercial, residential, and monumental architecture. St. Louis is known for the Gateway Arch, the tallest monument constructed in the United States at 630 feet (190 m). [50]