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  2. Cent (area) - Wikipedia

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    The cent is a customary ... and real estate deals. [2] Conversion chart. 1 cent in common area units Unit Value Square feet 435.6000 Acres 0.01000000 Hectares 0. ...

  3. List of Pennsylvania municipalities and counties with home ...

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    Home rule municipalities in Pennsylvania enjoy the opposite situation (i.e., they may govern themselves except where expressly forbidden by state law), and are governed according to their unique home rule charter rather than one of the above codes. While most home rule charter municipalities continue to reference their previous forms of ...

  4. Acre - Wikipedia

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    One acre equals 1 ⁄ 640 (0.0015625) square mile, 4,840 square yards, 43,560 square feet, [2] or about 4,047 square metres (0.4047 hectares) (see below).While all modern variants of the acre contain 4,840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends upon the particular yard on which it is based.

  5. Land development - Wikipedia

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    Real estate development – Process that creates or renovates new or existing spaces; Subdivision (land) – Divided piece of land; Subsurface drainage – A system by which water is drained on; Sustainable agriculture – Farming approach that balances environmental, economic and social factors in the long term

  6. Home rule municipality (Pennsylvania) - Wikipedia

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    When Pennsylvania was chartered in 1681, its proprietor William Penn was given the power to create counties, towns, and other municipalities, and the legislature was given sovereignty over them. "Abuse of legislative interference in local matters in the nineteenth century led to prohibition of special and local laws in the Constitution of 1874 ...

  7. List of largest houses in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Glenside, Pennsylvania: William Welsh Harrison [31] Arcadia University: 1896: Gothic Revival: Horace Trumbauer: 22: 66,000 sq ft (6,100 m 2) Bill Gates's house: Medina, Washington: Bill Gates [32] 1995: Pacific Lodge: James Cutler: 23: 64,500 sq ft (5,990 m 2) [33] Stan Hywet Hall: Akron, Ohio: Frank Seiberling: Stan Hywet Hall Foundation [34 ...

  8. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    This was an official unit of measurement in South Africa until the 1970s, and was defined in November 2007 by the South African Law Society as having a conversion factor of 1 morgen = 0.856 532 hectares. [28] This unit of measure was also used in the Dutch colonial province of New Netherland (later New York and parts of New England). [29] [30]

  9. Hectare - Wikipedia

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    The hectare (/ ˈ h ɛ k t ɛər,-t ɑːr /; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm 2), that is, 10,000 square metres (10,000 m 2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is about 0.405 hectares and one hectare contains about ...