Can you measure gallons into yards?

Question

I know there are 27 cubic feet to make a yard--so how many gallons would it take to make a yard?

Answer 1

Not into yards but into cubic yards. You can look up the gallons in a cubic foot (about 8) and multiply by 27 to get those in a cubic yard (about 200)
Or you could take my yard, which is about 20 x 50' and ask how many gallons would be in 1" of rain falling on it, but you still have to end up with something cubic.

Answer 2

A gallon is officially defined as 231 cubic inches. A cubic yard is 46,656 cubic inches. It is about 202 gallons per yard. This is the U.S. definition of a liquid gallon. There is also a dry gallon and an Imperial gallon, both of which are larger than the common gallon.

Answer 3

(Your very hypothetical question should be 27 ft³ make 1 yd³.
Gallons into yards can be accomplished in only one way.

If you're cubic feet are in the standard cubic form of 1' x 1' x 1'
and are formed of really sub-zero solid ice blocks.
Laid end to end , 3 of these will make a 1 yard long row of blocks = 3ft³.

1 ft³ of water = 62.4lbs. = 6.24 gallons UK (1 UK gal = 10lb).
So...3ft³ of water will be 18.7 UK gallons.
Therefore, 18.7 UK gallons = 1 yard ..

What do you think ..OK or not?

As a matter of interest. In some UK pubs, a 3ft long fluted, glass is used as a competition to see who can drink a 'Yard of Ale' without pausing. It's very difficult .. I can't...

Answer 4

You can NOT mix Volume (gallons) with Length (or area):

Length:
Inch [2.54 cm]
Link = 7.92 inches (see Chain for explanation)
Foot = 12 inches [30.48 cm]
Yard = 3 feet [91.44 cm]
Rod, Pole or Perch = 25 links = 5½ yards [about 5 metres]
Chain = 22 yards = 66 feet = 100 Links [length of a cricket wicket, about 20 metres]
Furlong = 10 chains = 220 yards [length of a furrow, about 200 metres]
Mile = 8 furlongs = 1760 yards = 5280 feet [a thousand Roman paces? – about 1600 metres]

Area:
Sq foot = 144 sq inches
Sq yard = 9 sq feet = 1296 sq inches [0.836 sq metre]
Sq Pole = 30¼ sq yards [often simply referred to as a Pole or Perch in land measurement]
Rood = ¼ acre = 1,210 sq yards = 40 sq poles
Acre = 4 roods = 10 sq chains = 4840 sq yards = Statute acre [0.40 hectare] [eg. a good-sized football pitch – but note that a Customary (or Saxon) acre was different, and that Scottish and Irish acres were different again]
Virgate = 30 acres [but varied in different districts - also called yardland]
Hide = 4 virgates [but really denoted the amount of land sufficient to support a family, and varied according to the locality or quality of the land]
Sq mile = 640 acres [259 hectares = 2.59 Sq Km]

Capacity [note, litre equivalents are for British Imperial measures]:
1 pint = 4 gills [0.568 litre]
1 quart = 2 pints [1.136 litre]
1 gallon = 4 quarts = 8 pints [4.546 litre]
1 peck = 2 gallons
1 bushel = 4 pecks = 8 gallons

Answer 5

In the US system 6.49 gal is equal to 1 cubic ft.