Yes. It has an area of 1 square mile; that's the same as 640 acres.
A square that measures 6 miles on a side and has 36 of these 1-mile squares in it is a "township".
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"Square mile" is the correct name. In the Dominion Land Survey of Canada each township is divided into thirty-six sections, each section is about one square mile.
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.
6,969,600 square feet One section is one square mile, which is 640 acres One fourth of 640 acres is 160 acres. Each acre is 43,560 square feet Therefore, one quarter of a section is 640/4 x 43,560 = 6,969,600 square feet. Alternatively, you can see that a square mile cut into quarters would be 4 half-mile by half-mile squares. A mile is 5,280 feet, so each square would be (1/2 x 5,280)2 = 6,969,600 square feet
One square mile is equal to 3,097,600 square yards
One square mile is 640 acres.