is 3,355 Acres really big?

Question

In the town that i live in(which is growing like crazy) they are planning on using that much space to build a mall, a hospital, theatre and auto mall? Is that as big as it sounds? Help me figure this out.

im still not getting the picture...keep trying...

Answer 1

Well it's not as big as Jupiter, but let's put it into perspective.

Assuming the 3355 acres is distributed evenly in a square (which I suppose it probably isn't, but say it was!) you would have an area of about 5.25 square miles.

640 acres is an area 1 mile (1.6 Km) by 1 mile. I think the average walking time for a mile is about 15 minutes, so to walk around a square block measuring 640 acres would take about an hour.

To walk around a square area measuring 5.25 square miles would take just over 2 hours.

I'd say that's pretty big.

Answer 2

Not that big. There's one farm operation in Crawford County Iowa that was 4,000 acres a few years ago. They've probably bought more land by now. However, I'd guess that 3,355 acres is a huge chunk of the town where you live. And since 3,355 acres is over 5 square miles, I'd say it's going to be a very big mall and such. A lot of it will be parking lot, though, which is an environmental catastrophe in itself. So, yes, it's big. And it's bad for the environment.

Answer 3

3,200 acres = 5 mi^2, which could be a strip 1 mi wide by 5 mi long. A square containing 3,355 acres would have a side length of 2.2896 miles, or about 27.5 city blocks.

Answer 4

A large, let's say wooded backyard for a suburban home may be an acre. Spread that out 3,300 times and you have an idea how much space that would cover.

Answer 5

well there are 640 acres to a square mile so that works out to 5.24 square miles....there are 36 square miles in a township ( a measurement of public lands in the west)....so it is a smaller town in my estimation...in terms of square feet your town works out to 146,082,816....

Answer 6

It's big if you have to mow it, it's small if it's a state.