Builder's to Surveyor's Measurements
Convert builder's measurements to surveyor's measurements.
Builders measurements can be converted to Surveyor's measurements with the calculator below:
Some units of measurement used in past and present surveys:
- 1 meter = 39.37 in = 3.2808 ft
- 1 rod = 1 pole = 1 perch = 16½ ft = 5.029 m
- 1 engineer’s chain = 100 ft = 100 links = 30.48 m
- 1 Gunter’s chain = 66 ft = 20.11 m = 100 Gunter’s links (lk) = 4 rods
- 1 acre = 100000 sq (Gunter’s) links = 43560 ft2 = 160 rods2 = 10 sq (Gunter’s) chains = 4046.87 m2 = 0.4047 ha
- 1 rood = 3/4 acre = 1011.5 m2 = 40 rods2
- 1 ha = 10000 m2 = 107639.10 ft2 = 2.471 acres
- 1 arpent = about 0.85 acre
- 1 square arpent about 3439.1 m2
- 1 statute mi = 5280 ft = 1609.35 m
- 1 mi2 = 640 acres = 258.94 ha
- 1 nautical mi (U.S.) = 6080.27 ft = 1853.248 m
- 1 fathom = 6 ft = 1.829 m
- 1 cubit = 18 in = 0.457 m
- 1 vara = 33 in
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