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.
In the case of our example legal description, the half quarter-quarter section is 20 acres (though if the legal description had read N 1/2, S24, T32N, R18E, the area of the half would have been 320 acres). Halves can be north, south, east or west.