December 26, 2021 10:21PM
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Rosso Wrote:
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> BTW, is an American mile not the same as a statute
> mile? According to my arithmetic, 10seconds of
> angle on a 100' chord is 34377', which in English
> is 6miles, 40chains, 29yds. Is a US mile not
> 1760yds?
one mile = 5280 feet
one mile = 1760 yards
one mile = 80 chains
one mile = 320 rods
one mile = 8 furlongs
I have worked with property deeds and maps that used chains. A surveyor's (or Gunter's) chain is 66' and and was first used in 1620 in England. And this is why some older property divisions had distances in multiples of the length of a chain. And some public roads 66' wide and even 99'. A Rod is 16.5 feet, so four rods = one chain. An acre is 43,560 square feet which works out to one chain by ten chains (or 2x5). An eighth of a mile is 660 feet.
Find out more at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunter%27s_chain
Brian Norden
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