acre
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Situated on a lot just over an acre, the 7,781-square-foot home was built in 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
His project, rather, is an examination of the deaths of two hikers, Dean Pommerville and Eric Straughter, in the 1.3 million acre Gifford Pinchot National Forest in December 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Brundo is asking $15 million for the property that spans more than an acre on the edge of Melrose Hill, a niche neighborhood at Melrose and Western avenues known for its trendy restaurants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
They include the need to better coordinate working between teams, greater consideration of how Flora's neurodiversity affected her acre and concerns that aspects of staff communication caused distress to the family.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
We had this house with a pool, almost an acre.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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Plans call for two large dams about 300 feet high, as well as nine smaller ones, holding water pumped from the Sacramento River and inundating about 15,000 acres in a valley northwest of Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
“The house sits on a mountain, on 26 acres and has a 140 mile view,” she said on a social media post describing the place.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
It already has statewide updates and evacuation orders on all fires over 10 acres, with detailed local information on fires and other emergencies from local authorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Mr. Specht tells us that “Kiliaen Van Rensselaer never visited the nearly 750,000 acres along the Hudson River that he acquired between 1629 and 1637.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
In the early 1600s, the British seized a half-million acres from Irish farmers, drove them from their lands, and opened those lands to settlers who would be under English protection.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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