# How much acreage is a house on?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 28, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-acreage-is-a-house-on/292228 "2005-02-28T01:31:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-acreage-is-a-house-on/292228/21 "2005-03-01T01:01:14Z")

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> [@aerodave](#):
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> Also, if you’re just interested in turning the measurements into acreage, you can use Google’s calculator function very easily/ Just go to Google and type this into the search bar:
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> [100 ft \* 80 ft in acres](http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-52,GGLD:en&q=100+ft+%2A+80+ft+in+acres)
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> And it will return your answer. Incredibly handy tool!

Oops…one step ahead of me. :smack:

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**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-acreage-is-a-house-on/292228/22 "2005-03-01T01:25:46Z")

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> [@cornflakes](#):
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> One hundred by eighty _inches?_ One foot is 1’. An inch is 1" 🙂

I’ve been sizing photos all week for the same catalogue as the essay on the acreage. You get the feeling I’m trying to fit a month of work here into a week?

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