In the United States and Canada, a section in land measure is 1 square mile, equal to 640 acres, or about 259 hectares or 2.59 square kilometers in Metric measures.
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1 section = 640 acres. A quarter section = 160 acres.
How big is a section?
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One section is equal to one square mile. In one square mile, there are 640 acres, therefore in one quarter of a section of land, there are 160 acres.
You are revering to the section, township, range system of surveying land then it is 640 acres in a section (one square mile) which will equal 5,120 acres.
640 acres
18.75 square miles. A "section" of land contains 640 acres and is equal to 1 square mile.
Since a quarter section of land is 160 acres, and 1 acre = 0.404 hectares, then 1 quarter section is equivalent to 64.78 hectares of land.
320 acres. A full section contains 640 acres.
Any quarter section is comprised of 160 acres.
160 acres.
They could claim up to 160 acres (1/4 section). They had to stay on the land and improve the land (ie plant crops, clear the land) before they could get a deed (ownership) to the land.