What key events happened during Millard Fillmore's presidency? The Compromise of 1850 was approved with Fillmore's blessing. Like most compromises, it pleased no one, but helped stave off the Civil War for 10 years.
A brass disc in concrete marking a quarter section corner. In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally one square mile (2.6 square kilometers), containing 640 acres (260 hectares), with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid.
For example, an area that has a width of 500 feet, and a length of 700 feet would be calculated by multiplying 500 by 700. In this case the area is 350,000 square feet. Once you have the total size in square feet, meters or yards you need to convert this into acres. Multiplying length by width gives you the area, or the space inside the boundary of your property.