Quarter Section

A quarter section, often shortened to quarter, is an area of one-fourth of a square mile, or 160 acres (0.65 km2). It was a common size of a tract in homesteading in the United States and Canada.

For details on its use, see

  • Dominion Land Survey in Canada
  • Public Land Survey System in the United States
    • Section (United States land surveying)

Famous quotes containing the words quarter and/or section:

    “Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you’re tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.”
    —Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

    “Personally I think we’re over-specialized. Why it’s getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen’s left ear.”
    —Martin Berkeley, and Jack Arnold. Prof. Clete Ferguson (John Agar)