Using one square ... the Public Land Survey System began as a way to parcel out spaces. Townships were built around six-mile-by-six-mile plots and surveyors broke that down to the square-mile ...

What does the U.S. look like with an ocean that is 10 feet higher? The radically transformed map would lose 28,800 square miles of land, home today to 12.3 million people. The predicted sea level ...

When we look at that staggering comparison, it's easy to see how much we underestimate what an acre in real life looks like .

After years of negotiations and threats of development, Wyoming will sell a prized piece of land so that ... Wyoming had at one point made plans to sell the one-square-mile property in an auction ...