Assertion: acre | /r/HasProperty | a quarter section
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text: More recently, various Homestead Acts were passed 1862–1916, granting 160–640 acres (a quarter section to a full section), depending on the act, and earlier homesteading occurred under statutes such as the Preemption Act of 1841.
text: 160 acres is a quarter of a section, but since a section is one mile square, when you divide that up into 4 equal quarters, each quarter is a half-mile square.
text: Freed people widely expected to legally claim 40 acres of land (a quarter-quarter section) and a mule after the end of the war.