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Article 5 of the law of 18 Germinal, Year III (7 April 1795) defined five units of measure. The units and their preliminary values were: [7] The metre, for length – defined as being one ten millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator through Paris; The are (100 m 2) for area [of land] The stère (1 m 3) for volume of firewood
Table of area units Unit Relative value (pieds carrés) SI value Imperial value Notes pied carré: 1 ~1055 cm 2 ~1.136 sq ft The French square foot: toise carrée: 36 ~3.799 m 2 ~40.889 sq ft, or ~4.543 sq yd The French square fathom Paris: perche d'arpent carrée: 484 ~51.07 m 2 ~61.08 sq yd This was the main square perch in old French surveying.
Mesures usuelles (French pronunciation: [məzyʁ yzɥɛl], customary measures) were a French system of measurement introduced by French Emperor Napoleon I in 1812 to act as compromise between the metric system and traditional measurements. The system was restricted to use in the retail industry and continued in use until 1840, when the laws of ...
The area was settled mostly by Pennsylvanians and Virginians. [12] Section 16 of each survey township was set aside for public education as School Lands . Knepper notes: "Sections number 8, 11, 26, and 29 in every township were reserved for future sale by the federal government when, it was hoped, they would bring higher prices because of ...
In Louisiana, parcels of land known as arpent sections or French arpent land grants also pre-date the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), but are treated as PLSS sections. An arpent can mean a linear measurement of approximately 192 feet (59 m) or an area measurement of about 0.84 acres (3,400 m 2).
La Porte (named by French explorers travelling up from the south, this area was the first clearing or "door" out of the heavy woods to the south.) [114] La Porte County [114] Lafayette (named for the French general, Marquis de Lafayette) [113] LaGrange County [113] Leroy [114] Ligonier; Marion County (named for Francis Marion) [112]: 98 ...
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The region was surveyed by French Canadian and European explorers beginning in the 17th century; with Great Britain, France, and the Iroquois League claiming ownership of the land during periods of the 1600s and 1700s. By the 18th century, the land became part of that what is historically known as Ohio Country.