The pond is currently serving 1,230 persons or 260 persons per acre.

Three quarters to 1 acre of good land is enough for raising fruits and vegetables for home use, and for a small flock of chickens, a cow, and two pigs.

The acre is also commonly used to measure land areas, where

An acre is approximately 40 % of a hectare.

The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land.

One international acre is equal to 4046. 8564224 square metres.

The acre is related to the square mile, with 640 acres making up one square mile.

While all modern variants of the acre contain 4, 840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends on which yard it is based on.

A square enclosing one acre is approximately 69. 57 yards, or on a side.

As a unit of measure, an acre has no prescribed shape ; any perimeter enclosing 43, 560 square feet is an acre in size.

The acre is often used to express areas of land in the United States and in countries where the Imperial System is still in use.

, the acre is not used officially in the United Kingdom.

An acre is about 40 % of a hectare.

Perhaps the easiest way to envisage an acre is as a rectangle measuring 88 yards by 55 yards ( of 880 yards by of 880 yards ), about the size of a standard American football field.

To be more exact, one acre is 90. 75 percent of a long by wide American football field ( without the end zones ).

The acre is also approximately 56. 68 percent of a long by wide association football ( soccer ) pitch.

Consequently, the international acre is exactly 4, 046. 8564224 square metres.

Since the difference between the U. S. and International acre is only about a quarter of the size of an A4 sheet of paper ( 0. 016 square metres, 160 square centimetres or 24. 8 square inches ), it is usually not important which one is being discussed.

The U. S. survey acre is about 4, 046. 872 609 874 252 square metres ; its exact value ( m < sup > 2 </ sup >) is based on an inch defined by 1 metre = 39. 37 inches exactly, as established by the Mendenhall Order.

* Rood, an old English unit equal to quarter an acre

Shambu owns two bighas ( a unit of land measurement where 3 bighas is 1 acre ) of land, which is the only means of livelihood for the whole family.

Historically, however, the earliest systematic application of the cul-de-sac street type by Raymond Unwin ( 1909 ) had a unit density between 8 and 12 units per acre, considerably higher than mid-to-late 20th century.

* Rood, an Old English unit of area, equal to quarter of an acre

" UW professor Jerry Franklin ( who Hines describes as " the guiding force behind the crane ") says that the study demonstrates that temperate conifer forests are better at banking carbon than any other ecosystem in the world, certainly more than tropical forests on a per unit area basis, at least 178 tons per acre ( 40 kg / m².

Built in 1943, the original 835 rowhouse units were recently reconstructed ( completed in two phases between 1997 and 2000 ) The $ 45 million CHA-funded renovation reduced unit density per acre and increased unit sites, resulting in 330 units of public housing.

* Fuel load: the mass of combustible materials available for a fire usually expressed as weight of fuel per unit area ( e. g., 20 tons per acre ).

Lake St. Clair Metropark ( formerly Metro Beach Metropark ) is a 770 acre ( 3. 1 km² ) unit of the Huron-Clinton Metroparks system located roughly north of downtown Detroit, Michigan in Harrison Township, Macomb County.

* Kanal ( unit ), a unit of area equivalent to one-eighth of an acre, used in northern India and Pakistan.

Oyster Creek nuclear power station is a single unit 636 MWe boiling water reactor power plant located on an 800 acre ( 3. 2 km² ) site adjacent to the Oyster Creek in the Forked River section of Lacey Township in Ocean County, New Jersey.

The basic unit of measurement was the perch which was 5. 5 yards ( 5. 03 m ) and the plots can be identified today because they are in multiples of perches: at Cricklade most were 2 by 12 perches ( 10. 1 by 60. 4 m ), while at Charmouth in Dorset, a charter of the year 1320 provided plots 4 perches wide and 20 perches long ( about 20 by 100 m ), giving a typical plot size of half an acre ( 0. 2 hectare ), held at an annual rent of 6d.

A vergée, or vergee, is a unit of area, a quarter of the French acre.

At 0. 02 acre ( 80 m² ), the memorial is often referred to as America's smallest national park ( or unit of the National Park System ).

The area of one acre ( red ) superposed on an American football field ( green ) and association football ( soccer ) pitch ( blue ).

An acre is an area that is one furlong long and one chain ( 66 feet or 22 yards ) wide.

For this reason, the furlong was once also called an acre's length, though of course in modern usage an area of one acre can be any shape.

The area is no longer exactly " typical " quarter acre block territory, but blocks are reasonably common.

These distances determined the traditional size of the strips: a furlong, ( or " furrow's length ", ) by a chain () – an area of one acre ( about 0. 4 hectares ); this is the origin of the acre.

Located in the Greater Victoria, British Columbia area the Vancouver Island Technology Park is a state of the art, 35 acre commercial research facility.

Hertzen's vision for Tapiola, which was originally planned for an area of 600 acres, was to have only 26 residents per acre, and a total of 15, 000 people.

Thinning such stands promotes stand productivity and wood quality, and is recommended when trees are from 9-15 m ( 30-50 ft ) tall or when stand density ( basal area ) exceeds 29 m² / ha ( 125 ft² / acre ).

Barks defined the volume of money contained inside as " three cubic acres ", but the exact meaning, and therefore the volume, of a " cubic acre " is subject to interpretation by the reader, since an acre is a measure of area, not length, a cubic acre would be a 6-dimensional space of 247, 961, 850, 048, 000 feet to the sixth power.

On March 30, 1867, he completed negotiations for the territory, which involved the purchase of of territory ( more than twice the area of Texas ) for $ 7, 200, 000, or approximately two cents per acre ( equivalent to $ in today's dollars ).

Land in the area in 1886 was selling for around $ 10 – 25 per acre, but by the spring of 1887 land was selling for as much as $ 18, 000 per acre.

In the early 1880s, U. S. Army Chaplain, Winfield Scott, who was lured in to help promote Phoenix and the surrounding area, was impressed with the region and paid the paltry sum of $ 2. 50 an acre for a stretch of land where the city is now located.

The first fire destroyed everything in its path over a ten acre ( 40, 000 m² ) area and the second major fire was almost as destructive.

* 1947-First homes built by Chauncey Clark ; property valued at $ 200 an acre ; two hurricanes completely flood the area.

The remaining older, singly owned houses are as much as 45 years old, annexed to comparatively small parcels, again an outgrowth of the 1 / 2 acre limitation on homestead property area within municipalities as set forth in the Florida Constitution.

* Cedar Park, 3165 Cedar St. Three acre DeKalb County park with a multi-use field, basketball court, multi-use court, playground and picnic area.

Fourteen acre DeKalb County park that includes a softball field, swimming pool, playground, picnic area and trails.

After surveying the township area, in 1840 the US Government offered land in the area for $ 1. 25 per acre.

Back when the area was originally being settled by Americans, land sold for a mere $ 1. 25 an acre.