Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the United States Government Land Survey, a square tract of laud containing 160 acres, and constituting one fourth of a section.
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Examples
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In December 1912, the City Club of Chicago staged a competition for the design of a quarter-section of the Chicago grid.
Charles R. Wolfe: Visioning Neighborhood and the City, Then and Now Charles R. Wolfe 2011
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In December 1912, the City Club of Chicago staged a competition for the design of a quarter-section of the Chicago grid.
Charles R. Wolfe: Visioning Neighborhood and the City, Then and Now Charles R. Wolfe 2011
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If you take a healthy quarter-section of good native grass and just let it sit with no grazing, no fire and no disturbance then I promise you in 15 years or so you'll have 160 acres of cedar.
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In December 1912, the City Club of Chicago staged a competition for the design of a quarter-section of the Chicago grid.
Charles R. Wolfe: Visioning Neighborhood and the City, Then and Now Charles R. Wolfe 2011
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If you take a healthy quarter-section of good native grass and just let it sit with no grazing, no fire and no disturbance then I promise you in 15 years or so you'll have 160 acres of cedar.
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Eventually I learned it was equivalent to 160 acres, but why was it a quarter-section?
Surveying Saskatchewan ewillett 2008
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The landscape scale is the quarter-section (160 acres) Midwestern farmstead.
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The quarter-section between 15th and 21st, Utica and Lewis, is already hard-pressed by the expansion of St. John Medical Center.
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The quarter-section between 15th and 21st, Utica and Lewis, is already hard-pressed by the expansion of St. John Medical Center.
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Thus he was able to buy a quarter-section of land for one hundred and fifty dollars an acre, and to sell it in a year or two, after installing a cement floor in the barn and running water in the house, for one hundred and eighty or even two hundred.
Main Street 2004
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