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Old 07-19-2009, 01:58 AM
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Originally Posted by katezbox View Post
From The Villages website...

The Villages is the largest single-site residential real estate development in the United States spanning over 26,000 acres in three adjoining counties in Central Florida.

So, if 640 acres = 1 square mile - then 26000 acres = 26000 / 640 = 40.6 square miles

So much for the accuracy of the US census I bet I got old figures on only the developed areas at the time of the last count.