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:

    “I have started to say
    “A quarter of a century”
    Or “thirty years back”
    About my own life.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “That’s my problem, chaplain: I’m yellow. PFC Bernstein—plumb, fat coward. Hey, can you get a Section 8 for being yellow?”
    —James Poe, U.S. screenwriter, and Based On Play. Robert Aldrich. Bernstein (Robert Strauss)