Section 3 (sec)
Section 3 (sec) : A traditional unit of area in the U.S. and western Canada, nominally equal to 1 square mile. This unit is used by the U.S. Public Land Survey System, which applies to most of the U.S. except for the original 13 states, Alaska, and Hawaii, and by the similar Dominion Lands Survey System in the four western provinces of Canada. Because sections were surveyed using grids of north-south and east-west boundaries, their actual size varies slightly (by less than 1%) due to the Earth's curvature, depending on their position within the specific grid. Nominal quarter-section lots in the U.S. would also be slightly smaller because space was taken from them for roads, but Canada allowed space for roads between adjacent sections
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