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:

    “In the haunted house no quarter is given: in that respect
    It’s very much business as usual. The reductive principle
    Is no longer there, or isn’t enforced as much as before.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.”
    —Frank Lloyd Wright (1869–1959)