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Acre (US Survey) (ac (US))
The US survey acre is based on the US survey foot, making it slightly different from the international acre. With a value of 43,560 survey-square feet, it appears extensively in historical property records and federal land surveys. Because millions of acres in the United States were mapped using PLSS, the survey acre remains necessary for interpreting legal land rights, even though modern mapping often uses metric units or the international foot. This specialized acre illustrates how subtle unit differences can survive for centuries due to legal and administrative inertia.
Rood (rood)
A rood equals 1/4 of an acre, or 10,890 square feet, and was used in medieval and early modern England for land measurement. The rood often appeared in agricultural records, taxation documents, and estate descriptions. Farmers used the rood to describe smaller plots of arable land, orchards, and grazing fields. Although obsolete today, the rood reflects the practical needs of historical agrarian societies, where manageable sub-acres allowed fine-grained recordkeeping and land division within larger estates.