Just outside my front door...well almost...

[Timothy]

Yep, just looked it up, "1/2 mile on a side, equal to about 40 acres."

Dictionary.com

quarter section;

a unit of land area, equal to one quarter of a square mile or 160 acres
2640 ft/squared = 6,969,600 sq/ft / 43560 sq/ft per acre = 160 acres...

[Teresa Heilevang]

These are awesome pictures everyone. Its nice to see a bit of everyone's location.
 Never had Roo.... would love to try it..

[Hazcat]

Dictionary.com

quarter section;

a unit of land area, equal to one quarter of a square mile or 160 acres
2640 ft/squared = 6,969,600 sq/ft / 43560 sq/ft per acre = 160 acres...

That definition is misleading / confusing.  It MEANS 1/4 of 160 acres.

[Timothy]

That definition is misleading / confusing.  It MEANS 1/4 of 160 acres.

Do the math Haz, it works out to 160 acres.  

1/2 sq mile 2640ft x 2640ft = 6,969,600 sqft divided by 43,560 sq/ft per acre = 160 acres...

Or think of it as 1/4 of 640 acres (sq mile) = 160 acres

I was wondering too but I found the same information on several reference sites.

[Hazcat]

Do the math Haz, it works out to 160 acres. 

1/2 sq mile 2640ft x 2640ft = 6,969,600 sqft divided by 43,560 sq/ft per acre = 160 acres...

I was wondering too but I found the same information on several reference sites.

DOH!....math!

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

1 section is 640 acres divided by 4 = 160

[shooter32]

In U.S. land surveying, a section is an area nominally one mile square, containing 640 acres (2.6 km²). Nominally, 36 sections make up a survey township on a rectangular grid. As the townships are based on meridians (of longitude) which converge towards the north pole, some sections which vary slightly in size are necessary to compensate. These unusually sized sections generally occur at the northern- or western-most edges of townships.

The legal description of a tract of land in the parts of the United States that use this system includes the name of the state, name of the county, township number, range number, section number, and portion of a section. Sections are customarily surveyed in halves and quarters, and further subdivision in halves and quarters is common. A quarter quarter section is 40 acres (about 162,000 m²), and is the smallest unit of agricultural land commonly surveyed. The phrases "front 40" and "back 40," referring to fields of crops on a farm, refer to quarter quarter sections.
 

[Timothy]

A quarter quarter section is 40 acres (about 162,000 m²), and is the smallest unit of agricultural land commonly surveyed. The phrases "front 40" and "back 40," referring to fields of crops on a farm, refer to quarter quarter sections.

Their refering to 1/4 of one quarter section or 1/4 of 160 acres = 40 acres....

Our English units of measure are a pain in the butt, but it's what makes us American.....

[PegLeg45]

A quarter quarter section is 40 acres (about 162,000 m²), and is the smallest unit of agricultural land commonly surveyed. The phrases "front 40" and "back 40," referring to fields of crops on a farm, refer to quarter quarter sections.

That is exactly how our meager little farm is divided up.     

[Kid Shelleen]

Beautiful pics from all.

I'm currently looking for some private lake front property with at least a 20 acre lake and at least 20 acres of land as well. It would be even better with a house already on it or even 2. Need the second house for my brother-in-law and future business partner.

Not and easy find but we're determined. We are open to just about any place in Texas.