acres
Acres or Hectacres Usually
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.
A yardland is a measure of land in Medieval England, ranging from 15 to 40 acres.
A square parcel of land with an area of 40 acres will measure 1,320 feet (1/4 mile) on each side.
acres
Acres or Hectacres Usually
Acres or Hectacres Usually
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.
40 acres
There is no direct conversion from acres to miles since acres measure area and miles measure distance. The size of 0.3 acres would depend on the shape and dimensions of the plot of land.
4 miles * * * * * There can be no miles in 40 acres. A mile is a measure of length or distance while an acre is a measure of area. The two measure different things and, according to basic principles of dimensional analysis, conversion from one to the other is not valid.
A land lot in the colonial land system is roughly 40 acres. Being there are 43560 sqft. in a acre a land lot is 1320'x1320'
It is not possible to determine the distance in miles to 5 acres, as acres measure land area rather than distance. Acreage is a unit of measurement for land, not distance.
You can't tell the linear dimensions from the area. There are an infinite number of shapes that all enclose 40 acres but have different linear dimensions. The smallest possible straight dimensions that can enclose 40 acres occur if the field is square. Each side would be 1,320 feet, and you'd need exactly 1 mile of fence to enclose it. But if some developer owned a rectangular piece of land that was 330-ft wide and 1 mile long, his land would also measure 40 acres, but it would take 2-1/4 miles of fence to enclose it.