{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-210.3","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 210.3","heading":"Land measure.","body":"The acre for land measure shall be measured horizontally and contain ten square chains and be equivalent in area to a rectangle sixteen rods in length and ten rods in breadth, six hundred and forty such acres being contained in a square mile. The chain for measuring land shall be twenty-two yards long, and be divided into one hundred equal parts, called links.","path":["Title V - AGRICULTURE (Ch. 159 - 215A)","Chapter 210 - STANDARD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/210.3.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:05Z","sha256":"fde092fd3ea461d5a891cc5b6c61e5a8cc98d53ad88be70692ff0c2ff2820e81","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-210.2","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-210.4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}