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.
An acre is 43,560 square feet, so the above median lot size for 2013 is almost exactly one-fifth of an acre. Not everyone has a good sense of how big an acre is. To help visualize it, consider that, between the goal lines, a football field covers just about 1.1 acre. This means that, if you placed a median-sized lot for a single-family detached home sold that filled the width of the field (160 feet) on the goal line, it would reach just past the 18 yard line.