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Acre (US Survey) [ac]


The acre (US survey) is a unit of area used mainly in the United States for land measurement, based on the US survey foot. It is slightly different from the international acre due to the foot definition.



  • 1 US survey acre = 43,560 US survey square feet



  • 1 US survey acre โ‰ˆ 4,046.87261 square meters



  • Slightly larger than the international acre by about 0.0005%.



It is commonly used in land surveying, real estate, and agriculture.



Section


A section is a land measurement unit used in the United States Public Land Survey System (PLSS). It refers to a square area that is 1 mile on each side, covering:



  • 1 square mile



  • 640 acres



  • Approximately 2.59 square kilometers



Sections are the basic units within a township (which contains 36 sections) and are commonly used for legal land descriptions and property boundaries.



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