Acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. An acre may be declared as exactly 4,046.8564224 square metres based upon the international yard and pound agreement of 1959. Acre can be traditionally described as the area of one chain by one furlong 66 by 660 feet, which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, 1/640 of a square mile, 4,840 square yards, or 43, 560 square feet, and approximately 4, 047 m2. An acre was conceived of as the area of land that could be ploughed by one man using a team of 8 oxen in one day, traditionally in the Middle Ages. Acre is still a statutory measure in the United States. Acre is commonly used is a number of current and former Commonwealth countries by custom, and in a few it countiues as a statute measure. As a unit of measure, an acre has no prescribed shape; any area of 43,560 square feet is an acre.
How Many Acres In A Square Mile?
There are 640 acres in a square mile.
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