Practically speaking only what is needed for a drilling rig to fit in. Legally speaking, it depends on several factors as determined by the regulating authority which bases its requirements on engineering formulas designed to calculate how much of the surrounding subsurface area will be effectively drained by the well bore. The determining factors used in the calculations are the depth, porosity, psi, whether it is primarily an oil well or a gas well.
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(140 acres)/(640 acre per section) = 7/32 section or 0.21875
1.2 acres.
1 section = 1 square mile = 640 acres1.8 sections = (1.8 x 640) = 1,152 acres
1 square mile (one 'section') = 640 acres 730 square miles = (730 x 640) = 467,200 acres
Yards is a unit of length; acres is a unit of area. You can't convert that. Perhaps you meant square yards? Each acre has 4840 square yards.
320 acres. A full section contains 640 acres.
Any quarter section is comprised of 160 acres.
160 acres.
There are 640 acres in a section.
A 'section' is a 1-mile-by-1-mile square. Its area is 640 acres.
(140 acres)/(640 acre per section) = 7/32 section or 0.21875
160.
The southeast quarter of a section is 160 acres, and the southeast quarter of that is 40 acres. So, the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of a section is 40 acres.
Usually 160 acres.
One section is equal to one square mile. In one square mile, there are 640 acres, therefore in one quarter of a section of land, there are 160 acres.
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.
There is no such unit as "square acre"."Acre" is a unit of area. There are 640 acres in a section (1 square mile).