mwlkr said:

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27,878,400 square feet. Configure it however you want.

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How many square varas is that?

Martin Cash said:

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mwlkr said:

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27,878,400 square feet. Configure it however you want.

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How many square varas is that?

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3,613,056

I had a math teacher named Ms Vara that could answer that question.

farmer95 said:

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They say that a foot is always 12 inches, but some peoples feet are much bigger that others. How does that work?

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Most yards are wider and deeper than three feet, too.

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TarponChaser said:

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SanAntoneAg said:

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It's a commonly held belief by the OB that a section is a postage stamp sized property, much too small to hunt on, and owned by lolpoors.

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What kind of **** is that?

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An OB joke

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Oh. I didn't catch that.

My mother's ancestors came to Texas in 1845. They were given two sections in East Texas. At some point they just abandoned it and moved to Robertson County. Wish we still had it. It shows how much different prices are now.

I worked in Kansas once where.Section/Township/Range is the standard.

Going East to West, the westernmost sections on each Township (36 sections) would all be slighly bigger, by a few acres. The surveyors did it way back in the day. Supposedly this was to account for the curve of the Earth.

Only place that I've seen that, other places may as well, not sure.

O.G. said:

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I worked in Kansas once where.Section/Township/Range is the standard.

Going East to West, the westernmost sections on each Township (36 sections) would all be slighly bigger, by a few acres. The surveyors did it way back in the day. Supposedly this was to account for the curve of the Earth.

Only place that I've seen that, other places may as well, not sure.

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But those sections aren't units of measure, they're more like addresses or identifying locations than size.

As in "Section X of Township Y as a portion of Range Z."

Yes and no. Typical sections in the PLSS are supposed to be one square mile/640 acres. Reality kicks in all over the place, but the northern and western tier of sections in any township are where the excess or deficiency in the township is placed by design of the PLSS operating rules.

The portions of Texas that resemble the one square mile grid of the PLSS were not and still aren't surveyed according to the same rules. Our excess/deficiencies are far more random.