Thanks Stan...and Jay Most enlightening. Several ancestors of mine homesteaded but I've never figured out the size of their homesteads. Ron Davies Surrey, BC At 07:19 AM 05/01/01 -0600, you wrote: >One section of land was a 1 square mile... which equaled 640 acres. Each >Township and Range was 6 miles... 6 x 6 equaling 36 sections of land... i.e. >Township X, Range Y, would have 1 to 36 Sections available... In most cases >it was further broke down to quarters (1/4), each section would have NW, NE, >SE and SW quarters.. it's hard to believe that a quarter section of land >supported some very large families at one time. > >What a great system... :-( > >I believe one ROD by a mile long also equaled an acre of land..? > >Stan