Hundred [2]
Hundred [2] :
An old English unit of area equal to 100 hides (see above). This is roughly 12 000 acres, 5000 hectares, or 18.75 square miles. The hundred is approximately the area of a village with its associated fields, so the name "hundred" came to mean a minor division of a shire or county. This use carried over to the American colonies, where, for example, many of the early settlements in Virginia were called hundreds. In colonial South Australia, the hundred was a subdivision of a county with an area of about 100 square miles or 260 square kilometers
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