As new additions to the city were platted, city ordinance required them to be laid out with eight streets to the mile in one direction and 16 in the other direction.

The armies took up battle positions daily and viewed each other from a mile without any major action for eight days.

In the Hopeful, he made a huge move, passing eight horses in 1 / 4 mile to take the lead and then drawing off to win by five lengths.

In 1967 Ryun ran a world record in the indoor half mile ( 1: 48. 3 ) and outdoors lowered his world-record time in the mile from 3: 51. 3 to 3: 51. 1, a record that stood for almost eight years.

It is located on private farmland, about one quarter mile west of the intersection of 315th Street and Gull Avenue, approximately eight miles north of Clear Lake ; this is where the plane crash occurred.

Its conception took place at a series of watering holes eight miles north of present day Maricopa, and about a mile west of Pima Butte.

Located eight miles south of downtown Atlanta, the Dick Lane Velodrome is a 1 / 5 of a mile and 36 ° banked concrete track for bicycle racing, set in Sumner park in a residential part of beautiful historic East Point.

Heritage Crossing Field House features two gymnasiums, a three lane, eight lap to the mile indoor track, and Dimensions Fitness Center.

Two miles ( 3 km ) eastward from the shore lies a chain of deep and narrow ponds, eight miles ( 13 km ) long ( 13 km ), with an average width of three-quarters of a mile, and covering an area of.

The eight mile long Fred Meijer Flat River Trail connects Greenville's major parks and circumnavigates the city.

M-115 runs southeast-northwest through the township, connecting with the village of Mesick about a mile west of the township and with Cadillac about eight miles southeast.

Corbin remembers seeing stacks of cross ties six to eight feet high, wide, and a quarter of a mile long stacked along the railroad at Zalma in the late 1920s.

The nearest emergency room is Elizabethtown Community Hospital, a 25-bed rural hospital with eight doctors on its active medical staff, which is a nine mile drive.

The Pleasant Valley Wine Company, founded in 1860 and a mile southwest, was designated U. S. Bonded Winery No. 1 and has eight remarkable stone buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Many people who consider themselves citizens of Sandy live within a six to eight mile ( 13 km ) radius of the city along various well-populated rural roads, as well as U. S. Route 26.

Characteristics of the park include a small lake and walking trail that was, a number of years ago, expanded from one loop measuring slightly over half a mile to a figure eight that amounts to near a mile.

Omega was approved for development in 1968 with only eight transmitters and the ability to achieve a four mile ( 6 km ) accuracy when fixing a position.

) Hossitt and Jansz secured a treaty granting the Dutch a parcel of land running along the shore eight Dutch miles long and half a Dutch mile deep ( roughly 29 by just under 2 US miles ), nearly coincidental with the coast of modern Sussex and Kent counties in Delaware.

The length of an eight was assumed to be twenty yards and as such the course came to be described as ‘ about 1 mile and 550 yards ( 2112 metres )’, which was the distance covered by an eight.

The 260-hour, four-and-a-half million mile ( 7. 25 Gm ) shakedown flight was successfully concluded on October 22, 1968, with splashdown occurring in the Atlantic, eight miles ( 15 km ) from the carrier Essex and only from the predicted target ).

It lay one mile south of Godstone Road ( later called Purley ), and was the first station to serve Epsom Downs Racecourse, some eight miles distant.

The feature was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934 in eight North American newspapers — including the New York Mirror — and was an immediate success.

At 02: 00 on 13 August, 40 squadrons were sent forward towards the enemy, followed at 03: 00, in eight columns, by the main Allied force pushing over the Kessel.

Cambridge grew slowly as an agricultural village eight miles ( 13 km ) by road from Boston, the capital of the colony.

Between 1790 and 1840, Cambridge began to grow rapidly, with the construction of the West Boston Bridge in 1792, that connected Cambridge directly to Boston, making it no longer necessary to travel eight miles ( 13 km ) through the Boston Neck, Roxbury, and Brookline to cross the Charles River.

Dartmouth is governed by a Board of Trustees comprising the College president ( ex officio ), the state governor ( ex officio ), 13 trustees nominated and elected by the board ( called " charter trustees "), and eight trustees nominated by alumni and elected by the board (" alumni trustees ").

The development team consisted of eight people for most of the development cycle, increasing to 12 or 13 people near the end.

The deck thus contains only eight or nine different card ranks, compared to 13 in a standard deck.

He pointed out that the very small sizes of Phobos and Deimos — approximately and eight miles ( 13 km ) in diameter and sub milli-g surface gravity — would make it easier for a spacecraft to land and take off again.

He took office on April 13, and his government, composed of 20 ministers ( including eight from the PAIGC, eight from the PRS, and two from the PUSD ) was named on April 17.

Campbell's dwarf hamsters tend to have four to eight pups in a litter, but can have up to 13.

The 1985 and 1986 teams combined for only eight wins, including an 0 – 13 start in 1986, which prompted the firing of head coach Rod Dowhower, who was replaced by Ron Meyer.

The sphere weighed 13 metric tons in air ( eight metric tons in water ) with walls that were 12. 7 centimetres ( 5. 0 in ) thick.

It was deeper than the current Lake Erie, so its shoreline existed about eight miles ( 13 km ) inland from the modern one.

It is located on the Penwith peninsula approximately eight miles ( 13 km ) west-southwest of Penzance.

Aged 13, Mao finished primary education, and his father had him married to Luo Yixiu ( 1889 – 1910 ), a woman eight years his senior, in order to unite their two land-owning families.

In Misamis Occidental, the now dormant Mount Malindang has created a lowland averaging eight miles ( 13 km ) in width.

Kinnock announced his resignation as Labour Party leader on 13 April 1992, ending eight and a half years in the role-making him the longest serving opposition leader in British political history.

He issued two other decrees: one confirmed an earlier decree of Pope Gregory X that ordered the shutting of the cardinals in a conclave to elect a new pope ; the second declared the right of any pope to abdicate the papacy, a right that he himself exercised at the end of five months and eight days at Naples on 13 December 1294.

There are eight different genera in the family classified as rabbits, including the European rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ), cottontail rabbits ( genus Sylvilagus ; 13 species ), and the Amami rabbit ( Pentalagus furnessi, an endangered species on Amami Ōshima, Japan ).

According to the 9 / 11 Commission Report, 13 passengers from Flight 93 made a total of over 30 calls to both family and emergency personnel ( twenty-two confirmed air phone ( airfone ) calls, two confirmed cell phone and eight not specified in the report ).

After some other reworking, by 1878 there were 425 members in 13 temples in eight states, and by 1888, there were 7, 210 members in 48 temples in the United States and Canada.

The strip — which varied between five and eight miles ( 13 km ) in width — was claimed by the state of Ohio and the Michigan Territory due to conflicting legislation concerning the location of the Ohio-Michigan state line.

" This ribbon of land between northern Ohio and southern Michigan spanned a region five to eight miles ( 8 to 13 km ) wide, of which both jurisdictions claimed sovereignty.

Investigators found some very light debris including paper and nylon scattered up to eight miles ( 13 km ) from the impact point in New Baltimore, Pennsylvania.