JessiccaFact: Acre
October 7th 2006 20:50
Old English aecer, now acre, was originally the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plow in a day; the Old English term came from Latin ager 'fertile field' and this became acre, which once meant any field.
This unit of land measurement in the British Imperial and United States Customary systems is equal to 43,560 square feet or 160 square rods. One acre is equivalent to 0.4047 hectares (4,047 square meters). One acre gradually came to denote a piece of land of any shape measuring the present 4,840 square yards.
Calculator measurement:
What does Wikipedia has to say?
This entry is about the unit of area. For other meanings see Acre (disambiguation)
An acre is the name of a unit of area in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre.
There are always 4,840 square yards in an acre. Because of alternative definitions of a yard, the exact size of an acre also varies. Related units of length are the acre's length of one furlong (220 yards) and the acre's breadth of one chain (4 rods or 22 yards).
The acre is often used to express areas of land. In the metric system, the hectare is commonly used for the same purpose. An acre is approximately 0.4 hectares.
One acre is slightly less than 91 yards on an American Football field, with the full field, including the end zones, covering approximately 1.32 acres.
This unit of land measurement in the British Imperial and United States Customary systems is equal to 43,560 square feet or 160 square rods. One acre is equivalent to 0.4047 hectares (4,047 square meters). One acre gradually came to denote a piece of land of any shape measuring the present 4,840 square yards.
Calculator measurement:
1 acre = 4046.85642 m2 (square metres)
This entry is about the unit of area. For other meanings see Acre (disambiguation)
An acre is the name of a unit of area in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre.
There are always 4,840 square yards in an acre. Because of alternative definitions of a yard, the exact size of an acre also varies. Related units of length are the acre's length of one furlong (220 yards) and the acre's breadth of one chain (4 rods or 22 yards).
The acre is often used to express areas of land. In the metric system, the hectare is commonly used for the same purpose. An acre is approximately 0.4 hectares.
One acre is slightly less than 91 yards on an American Football field, with the full field, including the end zones, covering approximately 1.32 acres.
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Comment by Anonymous
But it is still interesting to know about the measurement. Yeah, if you can write about "foot" and "inches" measurement that'll be great too.
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@spain01,
I read about this article a few days ago about acre and I thought it was interesting to write about it. But I will do my best to look into "foot" and when I get some good info of it I will most here, ok?
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