Section conversions
The section conversion selector here selects the area/surface measurement unit to convert to starting from sections. To make a conversion starting from a unit of area other than section, simply click on the "Reset" button.
About section
The section is a US land surveying unit of area equal to one square mile (1 section = 1.0 sq mi). The section is equal to 2,589,988.11 square meters (m2) or 2.58998811 square kilometers (km2) (units of area in the SI), or 258.998811 hectares (ha) (a unit of area in the metric system), or 640 acres (ac), or 27.8784 × 106 square feet (sq ft) or 3.0976 × 106 square yards (sq yd), which are Imperial / US customary units of area.
Common section conversions:
- 36 sections are equivalent to one survey township
- One quarter section is equal to 160 acres or 64.7497 hectares
- One quarter-quarter section is equal to 40 acres or 16 hectares
Plural: sections
Section conversions: a list with conversions from sections to other (metric, imperial, or customary) area and surface measurement units is shown below.
- section to acre
- section to acre (US survey)
- section to are
- section to carreau
- section to centiare
- section to circular inch
- section to circular mil
- section to decare
- section to dunam
- section to hectare
- section to mu
- section to ping
- section to pyong
- section to rood
- section to square centimeter
- section to square chain
- section to square decameter
- section to square decimeter
- section to square foot
- section to square hectometer
- section to square inch
- section to square kilometer
- section to square meter
- section to square micrometer
- section to square mil
- section to square mile
- section to square millimeter
- section to square nanometer
- section to square yard
- section to stremma