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Wed, Aug 25, 04 at 23:18
| I have a newby question. I haven't bought land yet, and I've been thinking about what how many acres I want. I just realized I don't really know how big an acre really is. Roughly how big is it in relation to a city block? I've only lived in cities, so that is all I've got to compare it to.
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- Posted by PoohBear2767 Dunlap Tn USA (poohbear2767@despammed.com) on Thu, Aug 26, 04 at 2:37
| An acre is 43560 square feet. This is a square parcel of land 208.71 feet on each side. A standard city block measurement was established at So an area approximately equal to 4 square acres = one square city block. Pooh Bear http://www.mce.k12tn.net/measurement/measurement_chart.htm http://www.wforum.com/online/length.htm |
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| Xena, My recomendation is to find an area near you where the parcels are about 1 acre. Check them out, the house size in relation to whats left over. I moved from the city to 3 acres and couldn't keep up with it. Our home and yard, for the kids, take up about a half of an acre. What do you intend to do with the rest? We have a small family orchard, a huge garden and are currently working on the out buildings and chicken coop. I live on a hill and some is too steep to use. So I guess my advice is to get out and feel the surroundings. Do you want to be able to walk the property? Or use a mode of transportation, ATV, Lawn mower, horse? Best of luck. Gina |
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| I have trouble with visualization and this is what I came up with. An acre is about the size of a football field without the endzones (the part behind the goal posts. Approximate but you can find one easily and stand there and think about it. |
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| I generally visuallize an acre as roughly larger than half a football field. For baseball fans, that's like 1/3rd a baseball diamond. A soccer field is 1.98 acres - so half a soccer field is about an acre. |
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| A surveyors rod is 16.5 feet. A surveyors chain is four rods, or 66 feet. An acre is ten square chains. Now go measure out 66 feet, or measure your house and look at how much 66 feet is in comparison, and think of ten times that area square. Dan |
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- Posted by pink_carnation 7 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 16, 06 at 17:24
| To get an idea of the size you really want I would try to find some people with different acreages and find out how they use them and what size works. Depending on what you do and the climate it will make a difference for upkeep. |
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- Posted by gurley157fs zone 7/8sc (My Page) on Sun, Apr 16, 06 at 19:00
| As someone else suggested, you need to make a list of things that you want to do with it. I live on an acre, have numerous vegetable and flower gardens, a rabbit hutch, DH has a shop and equipment shed with attatched garden room for me, and a 2500 square foot house. We still have room to spare. However, when I had horses and small livestock I lived on 23 acres. I used roughly 5 of those acres. Less than 5 acres would not have been enough. |
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- Posted by farmfreedom (My Page) on Tue, Apr 18, 06 at 11:42
| There are 640 square acres in a square mile . Figure out how many steps you take to go 209 feet and figure from there . Do not take the sellers word for how many acres he is selling most "EXAGERATE" OR DELBERATELY LIE, check it out at the city or town hall . Good luck! |
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| and to throw a monkey wrench in: a flat acre, an acre of gentle rolling hill, an acres in a river ravine or an acre on the side of a mountain ... an acre is an acre but not all acres are created equal. Definately look at your goals and dreams and the reality of the piece: Soil, water, weather, vegetation, neighboring impacts ... A person may think that they only need X acres but can the land truely substain those expectations? |
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| May I elaborate on what Foglily is saying? Those meaasurements are horizontal and apply to flat surfaces. On a slope an acre is considerably more than 208.71 ft. The steeper the slope the more ft. up to 45 degrees. |
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- Posted by mgtpa 6(mgtpa@clearviewcatv.net) onSat, Dec 29, 07 at 23:21
| Greetings! I was doing a search on Yahoo about area measurements and came across your posting here on GardenWeb about the size of an acre. After reading some of the other postings thought I share my 2 cents worth. A football field is a little larger than an acre. Football field is 160 X 300 feet from side line to side line and goal line to goal line and that area is 48,000 sq. feet. An acre measures 43,560 sq. feet. That works out to be 1.10 acres equals a football field. Even if you include the endzones of a football field it is still just 1.32 acres. So hopefully that gives a little visual aid as to the size of an acre. So if you are looking at a building lot with 160 feet road frontage and 300 feet deep, that's the size of a football field or 1.1 acre. |
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- Posted by Keith 32812(Synthrex25@.yahoo.com) onSun, May 22, 11 at 13:52
| When you are asking a questing about how large an acre is your answer may not be the one your long for. For instance i asked how many feet long and wide is an quater acre. Google gave me a square footage answer. Not what i had asked. So talk baby talk and just maybe youll get something close. |
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