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Brian Norden

March 17, 2004 09:42PM

A rod is now -- except for old land documents -- pretty much obsolete. A rod is 16-1/2 feet.
Four rods made an old surveyor's chain (66 feet long). Eighty chains made a mile. If you measure a piece of land one chain wide by 10 chain long you have located one acre of land.
A furlong (nowdays think horse racing) is 660 feet, an eigth mile. That would be 10 chains or 40 rods.
The water company I work for has an easement that it still uses that is one rod wide.
Brian Norden

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