Square Feet to Townships (ft² to twp)

1 square foot equals 9.963866889×10⁻¹⁰ townships (rounded).

1 square foot = 9.963866889×10⁻¹⁰ townships

How to convert square feet to townships

To convert square feet to townships, multiply the number of square feet by 9.963866889×10⁻¹⁰. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply townships by 1,003,626,415 (rounded).

townships = square feet × 9.963866889×10⁻¹⁰

Example: 10 square feet = 9.963866889×10⁻⁹ townships.

About these units

Square Foot (ft²)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

Exactly 0.09290304 m². The standard unit for floor areas and real estate in the US, UK and India.

Feet came first, and they were not all the same length. As a body-based unit, the foot ranged historically between about 250 and 335 millimeters, with ancient Greek and Roman feet near 300 mm. In medieval England a statute foot was set at 10/11 of an older Belgic foot, and Charlemagne's attempt around 790 to standardize units largely failed. The square foot is simply that length squared, so its size changed along with the foot.

The 1959 international agreement fixed the foot at exactly 0.3048 meter, so one square foot is exactly 0.09290304 m², or 144 square inches. The United Kingdom adopted the new foot in 1964. Today the square foot is the usual way of listing property in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Singapore and Hong Kong, although the measuring convention varies: agents may measure corner to corner, subtract unheated space, or add heated space that extends beyond the end-to-end measurement. The world's smallest park has been reported at 2.6 sq ft.

1 square foot = 0.09290304 square meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Square foot; Wikipedia: Foot (unit); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

Township (twp)

US land surveyTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

36 sections: a square 6 survey miles on a side (23,040 acres). Used in US land records.

Western descriptions of land such as T2N, R3E refer to townships in the survey sense: a block six miles on a side, nominally 36 square miles or 23,040 acres. T counts six-mile steps north or south of a baseline, while R counts six-mile steps east or west of a principal meridian. Each region's grid hangs from an initial point where the two meet, and one meridian can serve several states, as the Willamette Meridian does for Oregon and Washington.

Meridians converge toward the pole, so townships would shrink to the north if nothing were done. Surveyors therefore laid standard parallels, commonly every 24 or 30 miles, to reset the width. The first lands laid out this way were the Seven Ranges in eastern Ohio, and Jefferson is credited with promoting the system to support a country of independent farmers. A survey township is distinct from a civil township, which is a unit of local government in about 20 states and may follow the survey lines or ignore them.

1 township = 93,239,944.93 square meters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Township (United States); Wikipedia: Public Land Survey System

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