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What is an arpent?

  • Writer: Mary Lou Montgomery
    Mary Lou Montgomery
  • Sep 21, 2014
  • 1 min read

I came across the word "arpent" in an old deed at the Ralls County, Mo., Courthouse. The reference was in this context: "800 arpents on Spencer Creek."

Wikipedia defines arpent as "a unit of length and a unit of area. It is a pre-metric French unit based on the Roman actus."

Convert-me.com offers a means to convert arpents into more commonly defined acres.

1 arpent equals 0.8448 acre

800 arpents would be 675.8 acres.

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