One Section Of Land

One reason for surveying land into sections of 640 acres is the ease of breaking the land into halves and quarters using whole acre measurements.

One section of land. Each such parcel is called a section. The legal description of a tract of land under the plss includes the name of the state name of the county township number range number section. In the united states and canada the sections in the north and west of the township are more likely to be inaccurate.

Land was to be systematically surveyed into square townships 6 mi 9 7 km on a side each divided into thirty six sections of 1 sq mi 2 6 km 2 or 640 acres 260 ha. A section of land is approximately one square mile as opposed to exactly one square mile because of land survey errors difficult terrain and the curvature of the earth. These sections could then be subdivided for re sale by settlers and land speculators.

The lands of the united states are surveyed into parcels of six hundred and forty acres. A land unit equal to a quarter of a section and measuring half of a mile on a side. A quarter section of land or 160 acres could be broken down into quarters or a quarter quarter section of 40 acres relatively easily without a great grasp of mathematics.

Quarter section synonyms quarter section pronunciation quarter section translation english dictionary definition of quarter section. These sections are divided into half sections each of which contains three hundred and twenty acres and into quarter sections of one hundred and sixty acres each.