A quarter section of land is 160 acres, and one acre is approximately 0.0015625 square miles. Therefore, a quarter section of land is about 0.25 square miles.
1 quarter of a mile square. Each section is 1 mile square so a quarter section is 1/4 mile square.
18.75 square miles. A "section" of land contains 640 acres and is equal to 1 square mile.
1 square mile (one 'section') = 640 acres 730 square miles = (730 x 640) = 467,200 acres
A section of a township is typically 1 square mile, and measures 1 mile long by 1 mile wide.
The Sahara Desert covers about 3.5 million square miles of the northern section of Africa. This is about 10 percent of the African continent.
1/2 mile on each side. A section is one mile square (640 acres) a quarter section refers to 1/4 of a section, so it would be 1/2 mile on each side. (160 acres)
One Section of a Towship
Under the U.S. Public Land Survey (or government survey) System a section is one square mile. If you own two sections of land you own two square miles of land. Not all legal descriptions of land use the government survey method.
260,558 square miles
Madagascar is approximately 226,917 square miles in size.
Since Oklahoma's area covers 68,667 square miles, there would be roughly that many sections. One section equals one square mile according to the public land survey system of the US.