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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.
This is a complete list of all 50 U.S. states, its federal district (Washington, D.C.) and its major territories ordered by total area, land area and water area. [1] The water area includes inland waters, coastal waters, the Great Lakes and territorial waters.
24 Lake Powell: Arizona–Utah: 251 sq mi 650 km 2: man-made 25 Kentucky Lake: Kentucky–Tennessee: 250 sq mi 647 km 2: man-made 26 Lake Mead: Arizona–Nevada: 247 sq mi 640 km 2: man-made 27 Naknek Lake: Alaska: 242 sq mi 627 km 2: natural 28 Lake Winnebago: Wisconsin: 215 sq mi 557 km 2: natural 29 Mille Lacs Lake: Minnesota: 207 sq mi 536 ...
A quarter section is 160 acres (65 ha) and a "quarter-quarter section" is 40 acres (16 ha). In 1832 the smallest area of land that could be acquired was reduced to the 40-acre (16 ha) quarter-quarter section, and this size parcel became entrenched in American mythology.
Size: 3 acres (12,000 m 2). Located at 2nd Street and Hillside Drive SE, this park offers a basketball court, playground equipment, picnic facilities, new and improved tennis courts, and new playground equipment installed by the Kids Playground Fund. Wings Park. Size: 24 acres (97,000 m 2). Located at 4th Street and 5th Avenue NE, Wings Park is ...
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 ...
24 acres (9.7 ha) 1979: 21 acres (8.5 ha) 1954: 17 acres (6.9 ha) 1978: ... tripling the size of the city to 118 square miles (310 km 2) and adding 100,000 residents ...
[3] [4] The neighborhood encompasses 24 acres (9.7 hectares) of land, 50 acres (20 hectares) of water, and contain 3.2 million square feet (300,000 m 2) of retail, residential, and entertainment space along 1 mile (1.6 km) of the Potomac River shoreline from the Francis Case Memorial Bridge to Fort McNair. [5]