How big is an acre??

Question

How big is an acre??

Answer 1

1/640 th of a square mile or 4840 square yards or 160 square rods or 1/10th of a square furlong or 43560 square feet. Origionly an acre ment a peice of land that was one furlong (220yd) long and one chain (22yd) wide.

Answer 2

43560 square feet

0.0016 square mile.

4046.86 square  metres.

One acre is equivalent to:

-200 parked cars

-3/4 of a football field.

Answer 3

An acre is a square piece of land that is a mile on each side.  So that would make it one square mile in area.  That's about the size of a city block in a commercial district.

Answer 4

43560 Square feet, or just a hair over 208 feet square.  640 of them make a section, which is a mile square.  

5280 feet in a mile in case you need to know.