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Anybody here know what the formulation is for measuring an acre? X amount of feet times X amount of feet divided by what?
 
No square acres.

10 square chains = 1 acre [22 yards in one chain...the length of a cricket pitch.. if you are into that.]
5 ch [110 yds] x 2 ch [44 yds]= 4840 square yds
x 9 [sq ft in sq yd] = 43560 sq ft. as per GG.
 
Years ago covered this teaching ag. gave test how many fence post needed to fence square 640 acres. Only 2 passed.
 
640 acres in a square mile so

(5280ft x 5280ft) / 640 acres =

43560 ftft/acre

If square it is approximately 208.71 ft on each side. That of course rounds to 209 ft or truncates to 208 ft.

And students always ask me ... "Where are we ever going to use this stuff?"
 
BY DEFINITION: An acre consists of 43,560 SQUARE FEET. So that could in theory be a strip of land 1 ft wide by 43,560 feet in length as 1 x 43,560 = 43,560 Square Feet.

If it happened to be square versus rectangular and one acre, it (dimensions) would work out to the square root of 43,560, which is 208.7103, as a strip of land measuring 208.7103 ft wide by 208.7103 ft long would equal 43,560 square feet, i.e. ONE ACRE

If you need to calculate how many acres there are in a rectangular plot of land and you know its dimensions, simply multiply length x width (in feet) and divide by 43,560 to get the acreage.

Unfortunately, many land plots are irregular (maybe even with circular borders) shaped so it takes a bit of geometry to calculate the square feet.

Note that many legal descriptions begin at a point in the centerline of say the road in front of your house and that road surface may be included in your acreage...

Hope this helps

John T Country Lawyer
 
(quoted from post at 04:52:07 04/28/10) As John T says, you pay taxes to the center of the road, but you don't really "own" it.
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Not always my land starts at "my" side shoulder of the road, the guy across the road pay taxes on the land under the road all the way to "my" shoulder. Talk about getting screwed haha.
 
For sure, you "own" it (sort of)and pay taxes as you say butttttttttt just try to close it off and see what happens !!!! lol
 
In my part of the country many old roads are King's Grant roads where the ROW was granted to the township by the King in colonial times when the parcels were first surveyed out and deeded. Modern built roads are deeded to the town by the developer. There are no county roads around here. Surveys done by the town in recent (last 15) years show abutter's sometimes irregular property lines running along the town's older ROWs.
 
16 1/2 ft. to a rod. All got the acre right-now the hector thing. Some where around .6 of an acre is a hector?
 
Hello Mattlt,
You misread John T.
What he said that the measurement is from the center of the road. That is not always the case.
In my case, my property line starts 10 ft from the white road line, not the center, that is where the property markers are. It all depends on the locality. You may pay taxes on a front portion of your property say 10ft to the road, and the township or power Co, may have a right of way on that part of you property.
Guido.
 
In the early '50s, the county rebuilt the road that runs along the back side of this property; in one place they moved the road several dozen feet 'away' from us to straighten out a curve. Our deed says the property line follows the center of the (old) road, so use/control reverted to us. A fellow bought the strip between the old and new roads about 10 years ago and built a house on it. Because we had a fence on 'our' side of the old road (to keep livestock in), he assumed the fence was the property line. Didn't have to go to court, but did have to have our attorney talk to him to disabuse him of the idea.
 
33 ft wide by 1/4 of a mile long is an acre.Or 10 36 inch rows to the center on each side 1/4 of a mile long is an acre.Or 11 36 inch rows if you just go to the edge of the rows is about an acre depending on how accurate you plant the rows.12 30 inch rows and thats all I remember.
 
I agree, The County does have a right of way but its not public property. they can maintain a ditch or even cut trees that interfer with driving,but they have always asked us if they want to cut it down or even trim it. A year ago the power company had to go on the neighbors to fix a line and they cut it up pretty bad,They had to fix it.(the power company)
 
I walked 20 acres of woods to look for mushrooms last night. But the hills are so steep if you stretched it out flat I think it would be 25-30!! At least that's what my ankles were telling me.
 
This is only a ball park number so not 100% correct but very close. This also only works on 100% flat ground. 1 acre is about 208X208 feet if it is 100% square Now if hilly it is still measure as if flat so if a person could iron the land flat it would then be more land but that isn't going to happen because if you did that the the world would also in turn grow
 
Here's a way of looking at it no one has said yet. I have a 6 row tobacco sprayer so I have 12 row blocks. A block of 'baccer 1,089' long is one acre.

Dave
 
An acre is 43560 square feet. I think originally it was defined as being an area of land measuring 1 chain by 10 chains. A chain being 66 feet long... so 1 chain by 10 chains is 66 feet by 660 feet... or 43560 feet square.


Rod
 
Is this from a politician or a real estate man? Lotta difference. Little over 200 by 200 feet, close enough. Dave
 
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