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Convert Square Yard to Acre

Please provide values below to convert square yard [yd^2] to acre [ac], or vice versa.

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Square yard

Definition: A square yard (symbol: sq yd) is a unit of area in the imperial and United States customary systems of units, defined as the area of a square with one-yard (3 feet, 36 inches, 0.9144 meters) sides.

History/origin: Area is commonly represented in the form of a square with sides of a specific unit of length, written as "square" followed by the chosen unit of length. The square yard is one of many such units

Current use: The square yard is most commonly used as a measure of land area. It is not widely used around the world, but is still used within the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, to some degree.

Acre

Definition: An acre (symbol: ac) is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is defined as the area of 1 chain (66 feet) by 1 furlong (660 feet), which is exactly equal to 1/640 of a square mile, 43,560 square feet, or exactly 4046.8564224 square meters.

History/origin: In the Middle Ages, the acre was defined as the area that a yoke (pair) of oxen could typically plow within one day, using a wooden plow. Before the metric system was adopted, many countries used their own versions of the acre. The most commonly used acre today, the international acre, is based on the international yard, which was defined in 1959.

Current use: Acres are used in countries including the United States, the UK, Ghana, India, Canada, and others. The United States (US) uses both international as well as US survey acres (~4047 square meters), which vary based on which type of yard is used in the measurement. However, area measurements are typically not accurate enough for the difference between the two acre measurements to be detectable.



Square Yard to Acre Conversion Table

Square Yard [yd^2]Acre [ac]
0.01 yd^22.0661157024793E-6 ac
0.1 yd^22.06612E-5 ac
1 yd^20.0002066116 ac
2 yd^20.0004132231 ac
3 yd^20.0006198347 ac
5 yd^20.0010330579 ac
10 yd^20.0020661157 ac
20 yd^20.0041322314 ac
50 yd^20.0103305785 ac
100 yd^20.020661157 ac
1000 yd^20.2066115702 ac


How to Convert Square Yard to Acre

1 yd^2 = 0.0002066116 ac
1 ac = 4840 yd^2

Example: convert 15 yd^2 to ac:
15 yd^2 = 15 × 0.0002066116 ac = 0.0030991736 ac



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