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 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.

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.

It is related to the word " acre ", and therefore Ackermann means " fieldman ".

It is related to the word " acre ", and is the root of the surname Ackerman.

The huge, 5. 2 acre fortress of Margat related to Hungary not only because of this expedition.

One acre equals 4, 840 square yards, 43, 560 square feet or about ( see below ).

* 1 acre is approximately 208. 71 feet × 208. 71 feet ( a square )

A perch is equal to a square rod ( 1 square rod is 0. 00625 acre )

These were differently sized in different countries, for instance, the historical French acre was 4, 221 square metres, whereas in Germany as many variants of " acre " existed as there were German states.

* Irish acre = 7, 840 square yards

* Cheshire acre = 10, 240 square yards

* Roman acre = 1, 260 square metres

The only thing that changed was the number of feet and yards in a rod or a furlong, and the number of square feet and square yards in an acre.

While debating what became the Land Ordinance of 1785, Thomas Jefferson's committee wanted to divide the public lands in the west into “ hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6086 and 4-10ths of a foot ” and “ sub-divided into lots of one mile square each, or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre ”.

The maze covers a third of an acre and contains half a mile of paths.

The 651 acre park sits atop an out-cropping of serpentine stone greater than one square mile in size – one of the largest serpentine barrens on the East Coast.

The 500 acre ( 2. 0 km² ) reserve is situated one mile east of Llanelli and five miles ( 8 km ) north of Swansea in south Wales, on the eastern side of Carmarthen Bay, and part of the Burry Inlet estuary which is an SSSI ( Site of Special Scientific Interest ), an SPA ( Special Protection Area ), and a Ramsar Site.

It is a 419 acre ( 1. 7 km² ) park located less than one mile ( 1. 6 km ) east of Eureka.

On May 7, 1784, the committee reported “ An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of locating and disposing of lands in the western territories, and for other purposes therein mentioned .” The ordinance required the land be divided into “ hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6086 and 4-10ths of a foot ” and “ sub-divided into lots of one mile square each, or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre ”, numbered starting in the northwest corner, proceeding from west to east, and east to west consecutively.

The Hertfordshire County Show takes place annually in June at a 70 acre show ground site one mile north of the village.

The maze covers a third of an acre and contains half a mile of paths.

Garden State Park's 600 acre (≈ 1 square mile ) land area is roughly bounded by New Jersey State Route 70, Haddonfield Road, Chapel Avenue, and New Jersey Transit's Atlantic City Rail Line.

The park also contains a 105 acre ( 0. 42 km² ) lake consistently stocked with fish, as well as a 3 / 4 mile ( 1. 21 km ) nature trail.

He gave the < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 100 acre ( 0. 4 km² )</ span > grant, located one mile ( 1. 6 km ) north of the river, the name Canterbury Vale.

Archer and his wife, the sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, acquired 800 acres ( 3. 2 km² ) of land that would come to hold 61, 000 square feet ( 5, 700 m² ) of exhibition galleries, a research library, a 167 acre ( 676, 000 m² ) lake, a five mile ( 8 km ) shoreline trail with fourteen bridges, and over 35, 000 maritime artifacts from around the globe.

The ' four-square mile ' ( 2560 acre ) grant to George Weston at the ' Yarrow-Lumla plains ' was completed on 31 October 1831.

He was the son of W. Graham Claytor ( 1886-1971 ), who as vice president of Appalachian Power Company supervised construction of the dam and creation of a 4, 500 acre ( 18 km² ), 21 mile ( 34 km ) long lake on the New River at Claytor Lake State Park in Virginia, and of Gertrude Harris Boatwright Claytor, a poet.

A grid of orthogonal Section lines at one mile spacing, aligned with magnetic north, divided the land into one square mile ( 640 acre ) sections for subdivision and land sales.

He is best remembered for supervising the construction of a dam and creation of a 4, 500 acre ( 18 km² ), 21 mile ( 34 km ) long lake on the New River in Pulaski County, a hydroelectric project completed in 1939.

Claytor Lake State Park in Pulaski County, Virginia is located on Claytor Lake, a 4, 500 acre ( 18 km² ), 21 mile ( 34 km ) long artificial lake on the New River created for a hydroelectric project of the Appalachian Power Company.

Claytor Lake in Pulaski County, Virginia, is a 4, 500 acre ( 18 km² ), 21 mile ( 34 km ) long reservoir on the New River created for a hydroelectric project of Appalachian Power Company.

In 1856, with the college and seminary both expanding, and facilities overcrowding, the seminary decided to relocate to a 7 acre ( 28, 000 m² ) tract of land less than one half mile ( 800 m ) away.

Fresh Pond Reservation consists of a 155 acre ( 627, 000 m² ) kettle hole lake, and 162 acres ( 656, 000 m² ) of surrounding land, with a 2. 25 mile ( 3. 6 km ) perimeter road popular with walkers, runners and cyclists, and a 9 hole golf course.