How big is one hundred acres what is an apt comparison? - Answers

A "section" of farmland is a 1-mile-by-1-mile square. There are networks of roads laidout on a grid of 1-mile intervals in many parts of the USA, especially in the expansesof wheat and corn in the Great Plains states.Each 'section' encloses 1 square mile of land, also equal to 640 acres. So when youlook down from an airliner in flight and see the checkerboard pattern of 1-square-milesections, you may be able to visualize that 100 acres fits into one of those squares6.4 times.-- If 100 acres were to be enclosed in a square plot, then that square would have to be2,087 feet (695.7 yards) on each side ... about 0.395 of a mile.-- The playing area of an an official NFL football field, including end-zones, is120-yards long and 160-feet (531/3 yards) wide. That area is 1.322 acres. (rounded)Your 100 acres covers 755/8 regulation NFL football fields.