US Quarts to Cubic Yards (qt to yd³)
1 US quart equals 0.001237782922 cubic yards (rounded).
How to convert US quarts to cubic yards
To convert US quarts to cubic yards, multiply the number of US quarts by 0.001237782922. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply cubic yards by 807.8961039 (rounded).
cubic yards = US quarts × 0.001237782922
Example: 10 US quarts = 0.01237782922 cubic yards.
Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.
About these units
US Quart (qt)
One quarter of a US gallon, 0.946353 L (32 US fluid ounces).
Quart is a word about fractions. It comes from Latin quartus, meaning one fourth, by way of French, and it was always meant to be a quarter of a gallon. Since gallons differed over the centuries, quarts did too. The US liquid quart is 57.75 cubic inches, about 0.9464 liters, while the imperial quart is a quarter of the 4.54609-liter imperial gallon, about 1.1365 liters. Canadian French even uses pinte for the imperial quart.
Older English trade also produced odd cousins. The Winchester quart was a big bottle holding two imperial quarts, later metricated to 2.5 liters, and the reputed quart of about 0.758 liters was once a standard British wine bottle size. In the United States a quart still means a carton of milk or cream or a tub of ice cream. Americans also use a separate dry quart, about 1.101 liters, for berries, so a quart of strawberries is larger than a quart of milk.
1 US quart = 0.946352946 liters (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Quart; Wikipedia: Gallon; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume
Cubic Yard (yd³)
27 cubic feet or 764.555 liters. Used for soil, gravel and concrete in the US.
Cubic yard is a cube three feet on each side, which makes it exactly 27 cubic feet or 46,656 cubic inches. In metric terms it is about 0.7646 cubic meters, or 764.55 liters. The unit follows the yard in the United States and Canada, and British railways once rated ballast wagons by it, with one Great Western Railway wagon holding 8 cubic yards.
A cubic yard is easier to picture than the number suggests. It holds about 202 US gallons, or nearly five oil barrels. That is a scale where bulk materials such as soil, gravel, mulch and concrete are naturally counted, so a patio slab or garden bed needs a handful of them. A handy rule of thumb follows from the arithmetic: one cubic yard spread one inch deep covers 324 square feet.
1 cubic yard = 764.554858 liters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Cubic yard; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume
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