An acre is about 43,200 sq ft, so 40 acres is 1,728,000 sq ft or so. If the property is 1 ft wide, the length is 1,728,000 ft long...or 1,000 ft wide and 1,728 feet long...etc.
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If the earth were perfectly flat, it would always be 40 acres. However, the earth is round, necessitating what are called correction lines. These are lines the surveyors had to "adjust" to stay in line with true earthly north, south, east, and west. Therefore a "40-acre" piece of land may actually measure more or less than 40 acres.
If it is exactly 40 acres square it will take one mile of fencing or 5,280 feet. However most tracts of land are 40 acres more or less meaning they are approximately 40 acres. 40 acres is one quarter mile long on each side more or less.
1,024,000 acres.