Figuring out a measurement

[thaiblue12]

Ok I hate math, aside from the basic math the only other important kind to me is figuring out percentage off on sales I tried to cheat and google what I need but it just gave me a long drawn out formula.

How long is an acre? The perimeter, is what I need for 7 acres actually.

My daughter and I took a 300 foot long rope and walked a good part of it and what we walked was around 5 acres and it came to 1600 feet but that seems wrong. I am getting a radio fence for my dog and it comes with 500 feet and states that covers a 1/4 of an acre. Something is not adding up and like I said I hate math!

Thanks

[tyusclan]

A rectangular 7 acres that is 1 acre wide and 7 acres deep would have a perimeter of 3339.2 feet. You may have some variation depending on the exact shape of the land, but that should be close.

[oneokie]

An acre contains 43,560 sq. ft.. A square acre has sides that are 208.71 feet in length.
Not knowing the lay of the parcel in question makes it difficult to give an exact answer for the perimeter length.

As you are in CO., the land was surveyed with a civil survey. Sections, Townships, and Ranges. If the parcel is on the west boundry line of a range, the area could be much less or a little bigger.

[DaleK]

You'll actually have quite a bit of variation depending on the shape of the land. Asking how long an acre is is kind of like asking how skinny a pound is...doesn't tell you what you need to know. 7 acres is 304,920 square feet, but the perimeter will be quite a bit different if it's long and skinny than if it's square. If it's square, 552 feet on a side, so you'd have 2204 feet. Long and skinny or some other odd shape and the perimeter will go up, could be a lot bigger than that.

[watcher]

Try to remember that are 40 acres in a 1/4 mile square. From that you can get most other numbers.

To answer your question, to be 7 acres a square would have to be 552' 2" on each side.

To make a 1/4 acre square you'd need 104' 4" per side. If you put your house inside that 500' of wire would give you enough to run from your house, around the square and back to complete the loop.

[Jenn]

1 acre = 4 046.85642 m2 so a square acre is 63.6 m on a side (63.6 x 63.6 = 4045)

1 x 7 acres in a row would be 64 m wide and almost 450 m long,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre

7 acres is 28329 m2 so if it were square it would be 168 m on a side, so get the width of your 7 acres (if rectangular) and divide in to 28329 to get the length then the circumference is double their sum

[DaleK]

Ahhhh nothing like mixing metric and imperial measurements to straighten out the confusion.

[ace admirer]

one is a surface area measurement, the other is a linear measurement. different fruit related by formulas (too bad you don't like math....it is the only pure science and everything IS math all else is just a bunch of chitchat). the most area per linear perimeter would be in a circular perimeter....anyway a circular fence enclosing 1/4 ac would take 370 linear feet of fence + connection length....a square fence enclosing 1/4 ac would take 417 linear feet of fence + connection length. a 1/4 ac is, relatively speaking, a very small amount of land....i guess not to a fouse dog.

there is, as others have pointed out, NO way of figuring out the linear perimeter enclosing 7 ac. unless the geometric shape of the plat of land is given.

but one swag method is to go to google maps, find the plat, switch to photo, and scale off the perimeter.....its Grand Fun........loves me some math.

[gladetop]

Google earth your place and use the measure tool.

[rambler]

Measuring how long something is is one dimentional - a string.

Measuring the area of something is 2 dimentional - a sheet of paper.

A sheet of paper might often be 11 inches long and 8.5 inches wide.

But it doesn't have to be, you can make it different sizes.

You are telling us you have 7 sheets of paper, but that doesn't help us know how long the bottom and top of the sheets are - many different shapes would all come out to the same size.

We can't say how long it is from the info you gave us.

Are you asking for the area of an acre?

Or the perimeter? (this changes, depending on a square, a rectangle, an arc, or an irregular shape....)

A length and an area are different things, not sure what you are wanting to know.


---Paul

[thaiblue12]

Jenn that is part of why I hate math lol. I prefer, what is 33% off the price tag that I can figure out easily.

Ok I call my property a boomer rang. It is oddly shaped and I have the section township and range but that did not give me the dimensions of all four sides. I did have the exact feet per side from the county but my neighbor borrowed it and lost it We are not on any GPS, Google Earth, mapquest or etc, too boony out here.

I guess I will buy 2000 feet and see how far that gets me.


Oh Rambler I was asking length, but your paper analogy was helpful.

[gladetop]

The whole world is on google earth, Some images are better than others but your place is on google earth if you can find it. I look and different hunting areas in the most remote parts of alaska here all the time.

[Cabin Fever]

Originally Posted by thaiblue12

Jenn that is part of why I hate math lol. I prefer, what is 33% off the price tag that I can figure out easily.

Ok I call my property a boomer rang. It is oddly shaped and I have the section township and range but that did not give me the dimensions of all four sides. I did have the exact feet per side from the county but my neighbor borrowed it and lost it We are not on any GPS, Google Earth, mapquest or etc, too boony out here.

I guess I will buy 2000 feet and see how far that gets me.


Oh Rambler I was asking length, but your paper analogy was helpful.

What Colorado county are you in?

[fishhead]

Just take your rope and walk around the boundary where the fence will go. Leapfrog the rope ends as you go and keep track of how many lengths you needed. Then multiple the lengths needed by the length of the rope (300').

Then if you are like me redo it because you lost track.

[Yvonne's hubby]

Take a good stride, and walk the boundary line, counting your strides as you go. when you get back to the beginning, multiply the number of strides by 3. That will bring you pretty close to the number of feet you need.

[bruce2288]

Your deed should be registered at the county court house. It will have a description of the property boundaries. Since it is not a regular shape some measurements would have at one time been made by the surveyor.

[thaiblue12]

Google Earth and all the rest put me in a different spot then I actually live, usually to the south of me and sometimes in a place I do not recognize at all.

I live in the wonderful Weld county area where they spilt up things so stupidly none of us understand the method to their madness.

I did have the measurements and it had some info about the bordering properties and my neighbor borrowed it and lost it

My daughter and I did the 300 foot rope and leapfrogged for 1600 feet and then the pinchy weeds over took our boots and we quit. I would say that we covered around 5 acres in that time. We did the entire East line, the small North tip and covered a good part of the Western line.

I did this in paint and it is not exact but appx how my property is laid out, odd shaped.

[Cabin Fever]

Originally Posted by thaiblue12

I live in the wonderful Weld county area where they spilt up things so stupidly none of us understand the method to their madness....

Here is your county plat map ==> http://www.co.weld.co.us/redesign/as...3B55258433.pdf

Or, you can go to this interactive website, insert your name or parcel (tax) ID and get a map of your exact parcel ==> http://maps2.merrick.com/website/wel...%2C%20Colorado

[rambler]

Yea, that's a fun property to figure. Calculating the area or perimeter of such a property means we need to know how long each line is, or at least most of them individualy.

Did you write down the lengths of each line you did seperately? We could probably guess pretty close, if we had at least 3 of the 5 lengths, as well as if you are sure it covers 7 acres total.

Your total but incomplete number of 1600 is not as helpful compared to knowing how long the west line is, how long the north line is, and which portion of the 2 east lines you covered.

--->Paul

[snoozy]

You guys are so funny! More than a dozen ways to measure an acre and most of them confusing! It's like Math Hell with the best of intentions

Thaiblue, I think you and your daughter had the best idea: using a rope. Leapfrogging will be the best way to keep as accurate as possible, but be sure to write down each leap. Better yet, pound in a stake or a fencepost.