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.

An acre is approximately 40 % of a hectare.

The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U. S. customary systems.

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.

Originally, an acre was understood as a selion of land sized at forty perches ( 660 ft ) long and four perches ( 66 ft ) wide ; this may have also been understood as an approximation of the amount of land an ox could plough in one day.

In 1904 the ground was acquired by businessman Gus Mears and his brother Joseph, who had also purchased nearby land ( formerly a large market garden ) with the aim of staging football matches on the now 12. 5 acre ( 51, 000 m² ) site.

The park, the second largest municipal park in Dublin, is part of a former 2 km² ( 500 acre ) estate assembled by members of the Guinness family, beginning with Benjamin Lee Guinness in 1835 ( the largest municipal park is nearby ( North ) Bull Island, also shared between Clontarf and Raheny ).

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 Dixon campus also contains a 17 acre public garden.

Falkner Island ( also called Faulkner's Island ) is a 4. 5 acre ( 18, 000 m² ) crescent-shaped island located in Long Island Sound 3 miles ( 5 km ) off the coast of Guilford, Connecticut, USA.

Loyd H. Roland Memorial Park ( also known as Akron Park ), http :// www. akron-pa. com / parks. html, is a 70 plus acre park located on Main Street on the East side of Akron.

They also grow to a considerable height and can have very large canopies ; the largest recorded, a tree at Holme Lacy which still partly survives, covered three quarters of an acre and yielded a crop of 5 – 7 tons in 1790.

The 178 acre site, at the top of today ’ s Club and Crestview Drives, which was locally known as the H and H Ranch, was selected to become the US Army War Dog Reception and Training Center ( also known as Western Remount Area Reception and Training Center ).

He also realized that the limestone would be a good source of nutrition for raising strong horses, so he took a gamble in 1943 and bought acreage along State Highway 200 at $ 10 per acre, which became Rosemere Farm.

There is also a separate 127 acre ( 514, 000 m² ) arboretum called Kew at Castle Howard, which is close to the house and garden, but has separate entrance arrangements.

Cedar Rapids is also home to the historic 26 acre ( 105, 000 m² ) Brucemore Estate, on which sits a 21-room mansion, and the Masonic Library and Museum.

He also jointly with David Rider purchased an 80 acre tract of Land in Livonia, on Plymouth Road, the land of which is now occupied by the Ford Motor Company Livonia Transmission Plant.

The town also contains Lake Tabor, a 149 acre recreational lake.

It is also the home of the Oregon Garden, an 80 acre ( 320, 000 m² ) botanical park.

Vestiges of an open field system also persist in the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire, around the villages of Haxey, Epworth and Belton, where long strips, of an average size of half an acre, curve to follow the gently sloping ground and are used for growing vegetables or cereal crops.

Conygar have also exchanged contracts to acquire an eleven acre site for a lorry stop and distribution park on the perimeter of the Stena Line owned port.

He also has a 150 acre plot in Panvel, which has 3 bungalows, swimming pool and gym.

Domenici also received an exceptionally low environmental rating from the nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters, who claimed in 2003 that “ uring the last decade his voting record has become even more strikingly anti-environmental .” The LCV went on to criticize Domenici for voting in 1995 “ to allow mining companies to ‘ patent ’ ( purchase ) public lands in order to extract minerals from them, without environmental standards, for the ridiculously low ‘ price ’ of $ 5 an acre or less .”

Cliveden was then purchased in February 2012 by Richard and Ian Livingstone, owners of London & Regional Properties, ( also the new owners of the next door 220 acre estate called dropmore park ) who placed it under the management of Andrew Stembridge from Chewton Glen.

NDSU also has a 55 acre ( 223, 000 m² ) Technology Park located on the north side of the main campus.

Salisbury Racecourse and South Wilts Golf Course are also on the 14, 000 acre estate.

The college is currently situated in 11 buildings on the northeast side of the central campus, and also operates at the 150 acre ( 607, 000 m² ) Richmond Field Station.