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Square Mile (US Survey)

The square mile (US survey) is a unit of area used in the United States for land measurement based on the US survey foot. It represents a square with sides 1 mile long, where a mile is defined using the survey foot rather than the international foot.

1 US survey mile = 5,280 US survey feet

1 square mile (US survey) ≈ 2.589998 km² (slightly different from the international square mile of 2.59 km²)

This unit is mostly used in land surveying and mapping within the US.

Arpent

An arpent is a traditional French unit of land area and length, still used in some regions like Louisiana and parts of Canada.

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  As an area, 1 arpent ≈ 0.85 acres ≈ 3,420 square meters.

  
  
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  As a length, 1 arpent ≈ 192 feet (about 58.47 meters).

  
  

Arpents were commonly used in colonial land surveying and property descriptions, especially in French-influenced areas.