thirty six sections make up a township
A township = 36 sections = a square (6 miles by 6 miles). Perimeter = 24 miles.
If, by "farmland sections", you are referring to the Public Land Survey System as used by most states in the US, then there are 640 acres in one section, since one section is one square mile.
Binary form has 2 sections,Ternary form has 3 sections.
The US has 2,428,224,640 acres of land.
43,560 square feet in an acre
36 sections in a township
36 Sections That is considered a township In Canada
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One section = 640 acres One township = 36 sections Therefore one township represents 23,040 acres
Because townships are political/geographical units, the population varies widely.
You are revering to the section, township, range system of surveying land then it is 640 acres in a section (one square mile) which will equal 5,120 acres.
36 one square mile sections normally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_township
A township = 36 sections = a square (6 miles by 6 miles). Perimeter = 24 miles.
There are 23,040 acres in a theoretical township. A theoretical township is 6 miles square, containing 36 sections, 1 mile square, of 640 acres each.
Section-A one-square-mile block of land, containing 640 acres, or approximately one thirty-sixth of a township. Due to the curvature of the Earth, sections may occasionally be slightly smaller than one square mile.
Quadrangles is what divides the land into townships and then each township into smaller tracts. The smaller tracts are subdivided into many different ways.