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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. 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

  4. Homestead Act of 1860 - Wikipedia

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    This was at a time where Northerners believed that the federal government should give 160-acre (0.65 km 2; 0.25 sq mi) plots of vacant Western land to pioneers for free. People went to the West to start new lives and wanted cheap land.

  5. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Mortgage and refinance rates for Feb. 25, 2025: Average ... - AOL

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    Average mortgage rates continue to show mixed movement as of Tuesday, February 25, 2025, with the 30-year fixed benchmark hardly budging under 7% as refinancing rates inch higher.

  7. Nepalese customary units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Units khetmuri bigha kattha dhur ropani aana paisa dam sq.feet sq.meter khetmuri 1: 1.877914952 37.55829904 751.1659808 25 400 1600 6400 136900 12718.42618

  8. Purchase rates for Monday, February 24, 2025 - AOL

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    Average mortgage rates are showing mixed movement as of Monday, February 24, 2025, with the benchmark 30-year fixed rate holding steady at 6.94% as markets digest shifting Federal Reserve ...

  9. Black land loss in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In all, more than 160 million acres (650,000 km 2; 250,000 sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States was given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders. [1] However, until the United States abolished slavery in 1865 and the passage of the 14th amendment in 1868, enslaved and free Blacks could not benefit ...