How long is 3200 acres and how wide is it?

Answer 1

One square mile = 640 acres, so 3200 acres = 5 square miles. So it could be a rectangle 5 miles by 1 mile. As long as it's a rectangle, any two lengths which multiply to 5 square miles (or 139,392,000 square feet) will work.

So [1/2 mile by 10 miles] or [2.5 miles by 2 miles] would work as well, for example.

But back in the old days, when the surveyors were sectioning out land. They would start with square miles (1 mile by 1 mile) then further divide those. So it could be 2 miles by 2 miles, with another 1 mile by 1 mile square next to that.