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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. Walking Purchase - Wikipedia

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    ( Id. ¶ 39.) In addition, Thomas Penn promised that the fastest runner would receive five pounds sterling (equal to £1010.92 today) and 500 acres (200 ha) of land. In the end, the runners of the Walking Purchase of 1737 procured 1,200 square miles [more than 1 million acres] of Lenni Lenape land in Pennsylvania.

  4. These People Own the Most Land in America - AOL

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    All told, the 50 individuals, families and heirs on this list own over 31 million acres -- or about 1.4% of the country's total landmass. For reference, 1 square mile is equal to 640 acres.

  5. Square kilometre - Wikipedia

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    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. For 1:50,000 maps, the grid lines are 2 cm apart.

  6. Bill Gates says he now owns 1 out of every 4000 acres of all ...

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    For instance, over the past six years Gates has reportedly spent roughly $113 million purchasing Nebraska farmland and now owns about 20,000 acres in that state alone.

  7. Texas land survey system - Wikipedia

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    A labor is one million square varas. Therefore, a league is 25 million. "A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of ...

  8. Privatization of public land (United States) - Wikipedia

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    As of 2020, the federal government owns roughly 640 million acres of land, the majority of which is concentrated in the Western US and Alaska. [1] Privatization of public land involves the selling or auctioning of public lands to the private sector. The private sector can refer to private individuals, industry, or corporations. [citation needed]

  9. At over 1 million acres, deadly Texas Panhandle wildfire ...

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    Update: the #SmokehouseCreekFire in Hutchinson County is an estimated 1,075,000 acres and 3% contained. 1,050,000 acres have burned in Texas. The #687ReamerFire has burned into this fire. #txfire ...