An acre is a measure of area with no defined shape. You can make it as long as you like if it is also made correspondingly thinner.
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1 acre is equal to 43,560 square feet or 4840 square yards. The length and width can have any value.
An acre is a measurement of land, so there is no defined shape. However, going back thousands of years when we were all farmers. A traditional Acre was long and narrow; reduced the number of times the plough had to be turned. A traditional Acre was a Furlong; meaning Furrows length (220 Yards or 660 Feet) long by a Chain (22 Yards or 66 Feet) wide. So 1 square Furlong (todays' city block) is 10 Acres. 8 Furlongs to a Mile. An Acre is 43,560 square feet. Acre comes from the old English word meaning "open field."
Acre is a measurement of area therefor it does not necessarily have a given length.However if it was square shaped an acre would be 208.71 feet long on each side. From: 1 acre = 43,560 square feet. Take the square root of 43,560 to get 208.71an acer is 10000000000000 feetAn acre is 4840 square yards, which can be in any shape. A strip of ground 4840 yards long (2 and 3/4 miles) by one yard wide would be an acre, as would one roughly 208 feet square.
An acre is 43,560 square feet. Divide that number by 456 and you get 95.53 feet.
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