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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (301410)4/16/2009 8:00:23 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 793914
 
One acre is always 43560 square feet, and a section of land is usually one mile on a side, but a section of land is not always 640 acres. Surveyors shunted all the error to the top tier of sections in a township, so Sections 1-6 are usually less than 640 acres.

You can't lay a square grid on a sphere, it's true.

I did load Google Earth to get my estimate of the size of the area where our Tea Party was held. I measured a couple of vectors that I could see, and Google Earth gave me the distance in fractions of a mile.

My home lot is 1.5 acres, so I have a pretty good idea of how big the site was.

I gave every person sixteen square feet, but I'm pretty sure the true allocation was more like nine square feet.

If that's the case, the true attendance is closer to 4000-6000 persons.
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