Question

"beginning at the se corner of the ne¼ of the section, then due west 5,280 feet more or less to the sw corner of the nw¼, then north along the west line of the section 2,640 feet, more or less, to the nw corner of said nw¼, then in a straight line to the point of beginning." how many acres does this parcel contain?

Answer 1

Drawing this on a paper, will give you 5280 west, then 2460 north and then straight back to the start.This will give you a triangle. The way to answer this is to first compute the total square footage of the area in problem, then divide by 43,560 which is the square footage in an acre.

So putting this mathematically: 5280 x 2460 = 12988800 (total sq footage in the box) / 2 (cut it in half to get the square footage of the triangle)

= 6494400 (total square footage of triangle) /43560 (square footage in an acre

= 160 acres.