There are no acres in a mile, and no miles in an acre. "Mile" is a distance. "Acre" is an area.
640 acres make one square mile ... a thing that's completely different from a mile.
1 acre = 0.0015625 of a square mile
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What fraction of a mile is in 1 foot
1 cubic mile = (5,280) cubic feet, 1 acre-foot = 43,560 cubic feet, 1 cubic mile = 3,379,200 acre-feet
Acre is a unit of area (2-dimensional), a linear mile is 1-dimensional. You can not compare the two.
'Acre' is a unit of area or coverage. 'Mile' is a unit of length or distance. 'Acre' and 'mile' measure different quantities; neither can be converted to the other. If you want to talk about 1 square mile ... a square that measures 1 mile on all sides ... that square covers 640 acres.