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  2. List of largest houses in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Bell Acres, Pennsylvania. Joseph Nocito Sr. 2003 [166] Chateauesque: 85 (tie) 38,000 sq ft (3,500 m 2) 5501 W Hamilton Road S ‘Pizza Hut Mansion’ Fort Wayne, Indiana: Dick Freeland 1997 Chateauesque: 85 (tie) 38,000 sq ft (3,500 m 2) [167] Vizcaya Museum and Gardens: Miami, Florida: James Deering: Miami-Dade County: 1916 Mediterranean ...

  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. List of largest palaces - Wikipedia

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    World's largest royal domain with 87,728,720 square feet (8,150,265 m 2) or 2,014 acres of palace grounds. Constructed by King Louis XIV and used as the official seat of the King of France . Was the site of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris , the Proclamation of the German Empire , and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles .

  5. List of United States cities by area - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2). In many cases an incorporated place is geographically large because its municipal government has merged with the government of the surrounding county.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Acre-foot - Wikipedia

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    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 either the international foot (0.3048 m) or a U.S. survey foot (exactly ⁠ 1200 / 3937 ⁠ meters since

  8. Orders of magnitude (area) - Wikipedia

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    1 square zeptometre (zm 2) 1 zm 2 10 −36: 1 square attometre (am 2) 1 am 2 10 −30: 1 square femtometre (fm 2) 1 fm 2 10 −29 66.52 fm 2: Thomson cross-section of the electron [4] 10 −28 100 fm 2: 1 barn, roughly the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus [5] 10 −24: 1 square picometre (pm 2) 1 pm 2 10 −20: 1 square angstrom (Å 2 ...

  9. Rood (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Rood is an English unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre [2] or 10,890 square feet, exactly 1,011.7141056 m 2. A rectangle that is one furlong (i.e., 10 chains , or 40 rods) in length and one rod in width is one rood in area, as is any space comprising 40 perches (a perch being one square rod).