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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A township is a unit of land measurement used in the United States and typically measures 36 square miles or 23,040 acres.
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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.
Townships established by the Land Ordinance of 1785 were typically six miles square, totaling 36 square miles. Each township was further divided into 36 sections, each one mile square.
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.