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:

    “A quarter of an hour is worth a thousand pieces of gold.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “... all my letters are read. I like that. I usually put something in there that I would like the staff to see. If some of the staff are lazy and choose not to read the mail, I usually write on the envelope “Legal Mail.” This way it will surely be read. It’s important that we educate everybody as we go along.”
    —Jean Gump, U.S. pacifist. As quoted in The Great Divide, book 2, section 10, by Studs Terkel (1988)