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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) โ‰ˆ 2.589998 kmยฒ (slightly different from the international square mile of 2.59 kmยฒ)


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


Township


A township is a land measurement unit used mainly in the United States within the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). It refers to a square area that is 6 miles on each side, covering a total of 36 square miles.



  • 1 township = 36 square miles = 23,040 acres โ‰ˆ 93.24 square kilometers.



Townships are divided into 36 sections, each 1 square mile, used for organizing and describing land parcels.




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