"1866 but could not override Johnson's veto. (Congress passed a more limited ""Second Freedmen's Bureau Bill"" in July 1866, and did override Johnson's veto.) Howard continued to push for Congress to appropriate land for allocation to freedmen. With support from Thaddeus Stevens and William Fessenden, Congress began to debate a new bill for black settlement of public lands in the South. The result was the Southern Homestead Act, which opened 46,398,544.87 acres of land in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas to homesteading; initially 80-acre parcels (half-quarter section) until June 1868, and thereafter 160-acre parcels (quarter section). Johnson signed this"
"divisions of land area were typically based on the square mile, and fractions thereof. If the square mile is divided into quarters, each quarter has a side length of mile (880 yards) and is square mile in area, or 160 acres. These subunits would typically then again be divided into quarters, with each side being mile long, and being of a square mile in area, or 40 acres. In the United States, farmland was typically divided as such, and the phrase ""the back 40"" would refer to the 40-acre parcel to the back of the farm. Most of the Canadian"
"Prairie Provinces and the US Midwest are on square-mile grids for surveying purposes. Acre The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, of a square mile, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m, or about 40% of a hectare. The acre is a statute measure in the United States and was formerly one in the United Kingdom and almost all countries of the former British Empire,"
"Acre The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, of a square mile, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m, or about 40% of a hectare. The acre is a statute measure in the United States and was formerly one in the United Kingdom and almost all countries of the former British Empire, although informal use continues. The international symbol of the acre is ac. In"
"the United States both the international acre and the US survey acre are in use, but they differ by only two parts per million: see below. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land. The acre, based upon the International yard and pound agreement of 1959, is defined as exactly square metres. Traditionally, in the Middle Ages, an acre was defined as the area of land that could be ploughed in one day by a ""yoke"" of oxen. One acre equals (0.0015625) square mile, 4,840 square yards, 43,560 square feet or about (see below). While"
"Hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides, or 10,000 m, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is about 0.405 hectare and one hectare contains about 2.47 acres. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the ""are"" was defined as 100 :square metres and the hectare (""hecto-"" + ""are"") was thus 100 ""ares"" or km. When the metric system was further rationalised in 1960, resulting in the International System of Units"
"division was called a ""centuria"" or ""century"". This dimension of the ""centuria"" became prevalent in the period when the large areas of the Po Valley were delimited, while smaller centuries of 10 × 10 ""actus"", as the name ""centuria"" suggests, had formerly been used. The land was divided after the completion of the roads. Each century was divided into 10 strips, lying parallel to the ""cardo"" and the ""decumanus"", with a distance between them of 2 ""actus"" (71.04 m), thus forming 100 squares (""heredia"") of about 0.5 hectares each: 100 ""heredia"" = 1 ""centuria"". Each ""heredium"" was divided in half"
"Square mile The square mile (abbreviated as sq mi and sometimes as mi²) is an imperial and US unit of measure for an area equal to the area of a square with a side length of one statute mile. It should not be confused with ""miles square"", which refers to a square region with each side having the specified length. For instance, 20 miles square (20 × 20 miles) has an area equal to 400 square miles; a rectangle of 10 × 40 miles likewise has an area of 400 square miles, but it is not 20 miles square. One"
"Resources Inventory (NRI), about 8,900 square kilometres (2.2 million acres) of land in the United States was developed between 1992 and 2002. Presently, the NRI classifies approximately 100,000 more square kilometres (40,000 square miles) (an area approximately the size of Kentucky) as developed than the Census Bureau classifies as urban. The difference in the NRI classification is that it includes rural development, which by definition cannot be considered to be ""urban"" sprawl. Currently, according to the 2000 Census, approximately 2.6 percent of the U.S. land area is urban. Approximately 0.8 percent of the nation's land is in the 37 urbanized"
"shown in this actual legal description of rural real estate: The terms ""pole"", ""perch"", ""rod"" and ""rood"" have been used as units of area, and ""perch"" is also used as a unit of volume. As a unit of area, a ""square perch"" (the perch being standardized to equal feet, or yards) is equal to a square rod, or acre. There are 40 square perches to a rood (e.g., a rectangular area one furlong (10 chains i.e. 40 rods) in length by one rod in width), and 160 square perches to an acre (an area one furlong by one chain (i.e."
"square miles (100,000 km2). The Western Shoshone had filed the original 326-k claim for payment of $1.05 per acre for 26,000 million acres (which they had never received from the government), but they said that it did not constitute a transfer of rights, title and interest, since the Treaty of Ruby Valley is controlling. The Western Shoshone have conducted protests related to a number of issues as they try to protect their territory. They have called for an end to nuclear testing within their country. They have also filed for court injunctions against the gold mining that would result in"
"1568. It remains in use in parts of Latin America, where its exact meaning varies. In the early Hispanic settlements of New Mexico, Texas, California, and Colorado, a league was also a unit of area, defined as 25 million square varas or about 4,428.4 acres. This usage of league is referenced frequently in the Texas Constitution. So defined, a league of land would encompass a square that is one Spanish league on each side. A comparison of the different lengths for a ""league"", in different countries and at different times in history, is given in the table below. Miles are"
"lots"", the one mile (1.6 km) square (2.6 km²) units that are still the basis for the road (and much of the trail) system present on the Finger Lakes National Forest today. In 1790, the area was divided into 600 acre (2.4 km²) military lots and distributed among Revolutionary War veterans as payment for their services. These early settlers cleared the land for production of hay and small grains such as buckwheat. As New York City grew, a strong market for these products developed, encouraging more intensive agriculture. The farmers prospered until the mid-19th century, when a series of unfortunate"
"in bold. One hectare is also equivalent to: Hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides, or 10,000 m, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is about 0.405 hectare and one hectare contains about 2.47 acres. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the ""are"" was defined as 100 :square metres and the hectare (""hecto-"" + ""are"") was thus 100 ""ares"" or km. When the metric system was further rationalised in"
"the present-day United States of America. It consisted of 11,360 acres. The Chowanoke through the 18th century gradually lost land through sales and other actions. Men's names were recorded on tribal land conveyance documents. In 1821 they lost the last 30 acres of communal land. Once they were landless and because of intermarriage with European Americans and African Americans, the Chowanoke were often no longer considered Native Americans. The European Americans tended to classify everyone as either black (even free people of color) or white, not taking into account Native American acculturation of children from mixed marriages. Like other Algonquian"
"unit of measure, an acre has no prescribed shape; any area of 43,560 square feet is an acre. In the international yard and pound agreement of 1959 the United States and five countries of the Commonwealth of Nations defined the international yard to be exactly 0.9144 metres. By inference, an ""international acre"" may be declared as exactly square metres but it does not have a basis in any international agreement. Both the international acre and the US survey acre contain of a square mile or 4,840 square yards, but alternative definitions of a yard are used (see survey foot and"
"idea is that access to land represents just the first step towards the implementation of a quality land reform program. Over 600,000 km² of land are divided into approximately five thousand areas of rural property; an agricultural area currently with three borders: the Central-western region (savannah), the northern region (area of transition) and parts of the northeastern region (semi-arid). At the forefront of grain crops, which produce over 110 million tonnes/year, is the soybean, yielding 50 million tonnes. In the cattle-raising sector, the ""green ox,"" which is raised in pastures, on a diet of hay and mineral salts, conquered markets"
"of land are approximately 80 chains (one mile or 1.6 km), 40 chains (half a mile or 800 m), and 20 chains (a quarter mile or 400 m) on a side. The chain is still used in agriculture: measuring wheels with a circumference of 0.1 chain (diameter ≈ 2.1 ft or 64 cm) are still readily available in Canada and the United States. For a rectangular tract, multiplying the number of turns of a chain wheel for each of two adjacent sides and dividing by 1000 gives the area in acres. In Canada, road allowances were originally 1 chain wide"
"should have been, the metre has always been based on the length of the bar rather than the half meridian. The SI unit of area is the square metre (m), but when the metric system was first introduced in 1795, the unit of land measure was defined as the ""are"", being 100 m (or the area equivalent to that of a square having sides of 10 m). This measure was only used in a few countries, but the hectare (100 ares or 10,000 m), is a non-SI unit that has been catalogued as being acceptable for use with the SI"
"be acquired was reduced to the quarter-quarter section, and this size parcel became entrenched in American mythology. After the Civil War, Freedmen (freed slaves) were reckoned to be self-sufficient with ""40 acres and a mule."" In the 20th century real estate developers preferred working with parcels. The phrases ""front 40"" and ""back 40,"" referring to farm fields, indicate the front and back quarter-quarter sections of land. One of the reasons for creating sections of was the ease of dividing into halves and quarters while still maintaining a whole number of acres. A section can be halved seven times in this"
"Forty acres and a mule Forty Acres and a Mule refers to a promise made in the United States for agrarian reform to former enslaved black farmers by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865. It followed a series of conversations between Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and Radical Republican abolitionists Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens following disruptions to the institution of slavery provoked by the American Civil War. Many freedmen believed and were told by various political figures that they had a right to own the land they had long worked as slaves, and were eager"
"American football field. To be more exact, one acre is 90.75% of a 100-yd-long by 53.33-yd-wide American football field (without the end zone). The full field, including the end zones, covers about . For residents of other countries, the acre might be envisioned as rather more than half of a Association football (soccer) pitch. It may also be remembered as 1% short of 44,000 square feet. The word ""acre"" is derived from Old English originally meaning ""open field"", cognate to west coast Norwegian and Swedish , German , Dutch , Latin , Sanskrit , and Greek (). In English, it"
"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"". The legislation instead introduced the six-mile square township of the Public Land Survey System. In South Australia, land titles record in which hundred a parcel of land is located. Similar to the notion of the South Australian counties listed on the system of titles, hundreds are not generally used when referring to a district and are little known by the general population, except when transferring land title."
"often still see them in modern maps, even in urban areas. In rural areas, these roads are called section roads, and often exist primarily so that farmers can access their land. Section line Section lines in the United States are one mile (1.6 km) apart. When surveyors originally mapped an area, for instance a township, it was their custom to divide the new township into 36 . Property ownership often followed this layout. A section is a area. A half section is a 1/2-mile by area. It is proper to continue this division down to a 1/4-by-1/4 section which is"
"court ruled on an appeal by the United States of a Florida court's decision to honor a land grant to the appellee of 16,000 acres (65 km²). United States v. Segui United States v. Segui, 35 U.S. (10 Pet.) 306 (1836), was a United States Supreme Court case. Appeal from the superior court for East Florida. January Term, 1836 Mr Justice Baldwin delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an appeal from a decree of the judge of the superior court for the eastern district of Florida, confirming the claim of the appellee to sixteen thousand acres (65 km²)"
"the Melish map was some east of the true 100th meridian and the Red River forked about east of the 100th meridian. Texas claimed the land south of the North Fork and the United States claimed the land north of the South Fork (later called the Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River). The dispute resulted in a lawsuit, which eventually wound up before the Supreme Court—no lower court having jurisdiction. The Court's opinion, in ""United States v. State of Texas"" , issued on March 16, held that the land of some 1.5 million acres (6070 km²/2345 mi²) belonged to the"
"square miles (1,036 km²). Clinton County's boundaries were several times adjusted in an effort to comply with that clause of the constitution. One of them, the Act of January 30, 1815, detached a strip of land from the eastern side to give to Clinton. That would have left Warren under four hundred square miles (1,036 km²), so a portion of Butler County (the part of Franklin Township where Carlisle is now located) was attached to Warren in compensation. The 1815 act was as follows: Except for the sections formed by the Great and Little Miamis, the sides are all straight"
"square actus is bounded by 120 feet each way: when doubled it forms a iugerum, and it has derived the name iugerum from the fact that it was formed by joining."" In Gaul, half of a ""jugerum"" was called an ""arepennis"", the origin of the later French unit of area, the ""arpent"". Jugerum The jugerum or juger (, ', ', or """") was a Roman unit of area, equivalent to a rectangle 240 Roman feet in length and 120 feet in width (about 71×35½m). This comprised 28,800 square feet () or about ¼hectare (0.623 acres). It was the double of"
"("", of approximately ), and the arpent used in Paris, which was defined as 220 French feet. Historically, in North America, 1 (square) arpent (""), also known as a French acre, was 180 French feet × 180 French feet = 32,400 French square feet = about 3419 square metres = about 0.845 English acres. Certain U.S. states have official definitions of the arpent which vary slightly: In Paris, the square arpent was 220 French feet × 220 French feet = 48,400 French square feet, about . In Mauritius and Seychelles, an arpent is about 4220.87 square metres, 0.4221 hectares, 1.043"
"has an area, , of . Of this area, or 11.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 77.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.9% is either rivers or lakes and or 3.1% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, 72.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 8.6% is used for growing crops, while"
"hectads. Myriad (area) A myriad is an area 100 km × 100 km square i.e. it is 10,000 (one myriad) square kilometer. 100 of these squares would be one million square kilometers. The term has a particular use in connection with the British Ordnance Survey National Grid and the US Military Grid Reference System, where the grids are divided into 100 km × 100 km squares, each with a two letter prefix. For example, in an OS grid reference the prefix TL refers to the myriad 500 km east and 200 km north of the grid origin. A myriad contains"
"subsequently the United Kingdom, by acts of: Historically, the size of farms and landed estates in the United Kingdom was usually expressed in acres (or acres, roods, and perches), even if the number of acres was so large that it might conveniently have been expressed in square miles. For example, a certain landowner might have been said to own 32,000 acres of land, not 50 square miles of land. The acre is related to the square mile, with 640 acres making up one square mile. One mile is 5280 feet (1760 yards). In western Canada and the western United States,"
"moved into their master's plantation homes by force. Others bought land collectively, or squatted on what was undeveloped. Throughout war and Reconstruction, the presence of Federal troops provided a platform for agricultural policy. In 1865, William Tecumseh Sherman issued Field Order 15, taking coastal land in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and dividing it into 40-acre plots for black settlement, hence the term ""40 acres and a mule"". In March, Congress established the Freedmen’s Bureau, whose commissioner had authority to redistribute confiscated or abandoned southern land. The Bureau held , and key directors pushed for its settling with former slaves."