Definition of "quarter-section" []

• In the United States Government Land Survey, a square tract of laud containing 160 acres, and constituting one fourth of a section. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "If you take a healthy quarter-section of good native grass and just let it sit with no grazing, no fire and no disturbance then I promise you in 15 years or so you'll have 160 acres of cedar."
• "In December 1912, the City Club of Chicago staged a competition for the design of a quarter-section of the Chicago grid."
• "Eventually I learned it was equivalent to 160 acres, but why was it a quarter-section?"