A quarter of a square mile of land; 160 acres (approximately 64.7 hectares).
〈北美〉四分之一平方英里的土地；一百六十英亩（约 64.7公顷）
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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 section
noun
North American
A quarter of a square mile of land; 160 acres (approximately 64.7 hectares).
〈北美〉四分之一平方英里的土地；一百六十英亩（约 64.7公顷）
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.