the distance of a mile in feet is 5,280 feet.
the distance of a mile in feet is 5,280 feet.
what is the distance of a mile in feet?
5,280 feet
the english statute mile was established by a weights and measures act of parliament in 1593 during the reign of queen elizabeth i. the act on the composition of yards and perches had shortened the length of the foot and its associated measures, causing the two methods of determining the mile to diverge. owing to the importance of the surveyor's rod in deeds and surveying undertaken under henry viii, decreasing the length of the rod by would have amounted to a significant tax increase. parliament instead opted to maintain the mile of 8 furlongs (which were derived from the rod) and to increase the number of feet per mile from the old roman value. the applicable passage of the statute reads: "a mile shall contain eight furlongs, every furlong forty poles, and every pole shall contain sixteen foot and half." the statute mile therefore contained 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards. the distance was not uniformly adopted. robert morden had multiple scales on his 17th-century maps which included continuing local values: his map of hampshire, for example, bore two different "miles" with a ratio of and his map of dorset had three scales with a ratio of . in both cases, the traditional local units remained longer than the statute mile.
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the standard distance of a drag race is 1,320 feet, 402 m, or 1/4 mile. however, due to safety concerns, certain sanctioning bodies (notably the nhra for its top fuel and funny car classes) have shortened races to 1,000 feet. some drag strips are even shorter and run 660 feet, 201 m, or 1/8 mile. the 1,000 foot distance is now also popular with bracket racing, especially in meets where there are 1/8 mile cars and 1/4 mile cars racing together, and is used by the revived american drag racing league for its primary classes (not jr dragster). some organisations that deal with pro modified and "mountain motor" pro stock cars (professional drag racers association) use the 1/8 mile distance, even if the tracks are 1/4 mile tracks.
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