In a message dated 3/31/05 3:03:30 PM, [email protected] writes: << How many poles makes a acre??, >> I did this piece of research a couple years ago after I had a new survey done on my own property which used the old metes and bounds survey system... Hope it is helpful. (a Franklin County anal-retentive property owner;-) Peter A 'pole' = 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet ===== Acre is a unit of land area in the inch-pound system of measurement. One acre equals 160 square rods [no, I did NOT look up the length of a rod, sorry] or 43,560 square feet (4046.856 square meters). An acre that is square in shape measures about 208.7 feet (63.6 meters) on each side. There are 640 acres in a square mile. In the metric system, one measure of land area is the hectare, which equals 10,000 square meters, or 2.471 acres. ======