Is 5000 feet in a mile?

-- 6,000 inches

-- 152.4 meters

-- 0.0947 mile

-- 89.552 smoots

-- 1662/3 yards

-- 0.59892 of the smallest possible distance around a 1 acre rectangle

-- exactly half as far as 1,000 feet

-- the distance at which a dime subtends an angle of 24.2402 seconds of arc

-- 831/2 fathoms

-- 4.943 seconds of longitude, along the equator

-- 2.368 times the wing-span of the Boeing 747-400 Combi

-- the distance light travels in vacuum in 508.352 nanoseconds

-- 2.123 times the length of the longest chord in a 1-acre circle

-- 0.6758 of the distance all around the rim of the same 1-acre circle

-- 41/6 times the length of the Wright Brothers Flyer's first flight on 12/17/1903