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Definition of quarter section in English: quarter sectionnoun North American A quarter of a square mile of land; 160 acres (approximately 64.7 hectares). Example sentencesExamples - It's a quarter section of land that we bought about 20 years ago.
- A quarter section is 160 rods on a side.
- Kevin now owns a quarter section of his own land.
- A land system which would accept a score of filings for the same quarter section of land and then leave the settlers to fight for its possession in the courts, would not be held in high esteem.
- Levi was the last of the six Countryman siblings to buy quarter sections of land near one another in Nininger Township before the financial panic.
- Subsequent land law commonly regarded 160 acres or a quarter section as sufficient to sustain a homestead or yeoman farm.
- And, from a quarter section of land, they and son Brandon now farm about 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans in the fertile Missouri River valley in northwest Missouri.
- In the Great Sand Hills, organic matter or nutrients not held by the blanket of vegetation are carried into the deep sandy abyss or the next quarter section.
- However, there are countless millions of ‘others’ today who should be pleased to take possession of quarter sections of rich meadow or of a handily located oil well, but cannot find unowned meadows and oil fields any more.
- Each of these squares was subdivided into thirty-six sections measuring one square mile each, then into 160-acre quarter sections.
Definition of quarter section in US English: quarter sectionnoun North American A quarter of a square mile of land; 160 acres (approximately 64.7 hectares). Example sentencesExamples - And, from a quarter section of land, they and son Brandon now farm about 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans in the fertile Missouri River valley in northwest Missouri.
- Levi was the last of the six Countryman siblings to buy quarter sections of land near one another in Nininger Township before the financial panic.
- Each of these squares was subdivided into thirty-six sections measuring one square mile each, then into 160-acre quarter sections.
- A quarter section is 160 rods on a side.
- However, there are countless millions of ‘others’ today who should be pleased to take possession of quarter sections of rich meadow or of a handily located oil well, but cannot find unowned meadows and oil fields any more.
- A land system which would accept a score of filings for the same quarter section of land and then leave the settlers to fight for its possession in the courts, would not be held in high esteem.
- In the Great Sand Hills, organic matter or nutrients not held by the blanket of vegetation are carried into the deep sandy abyss or the next quarter section.
- Subsequent land law commonly regarded 160 acres or a quarter section as sufficient to sustain a homestead or yeoman farm.
- Kevin now owns a quarter section of his own land.
- It's a quarter section of land that we bought about 20 years ago.
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