United States customary units form a system of measurement units commonly used in the United States and U.S. territories since being standardized and adopted in 1832. The United States customary system (USCS or USC) developed from English units which were in use in the British Empire before the U.S. became an independent country. The United Kingdom's system …

U.S. customary units is the system of units of measurement used to measure things in the United States and U.S. territories.The system of Imperial units is similar and in some parts identical.. Length or distance units include the inch, foot, yard and mile.. Land units include square miles (2589998.47032 square meter) and acres (4046.8726 square meter).. Common volume units …

Volume. Volume may be measured either in terms of units of cubic length or with specific volume units. The units of cubic length (the cubic inch, cubic foot, cubic mile, etc.) are the same in the imperial and US customary systems but with the specific units of volume (the bushel, gallon, fluid ounce, etc.) they differ.The US customary system has one set of units for fluids and another …