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 equal to 43,560 square feet or 4,840 square yards of land. This is about equal to about 75 percent of a football field, which is about 48,000 square feet, states The Calculator site. It is also comparable to 16 tennis courts and can hold 150 parked cars.