A cubic mile is an Imperial / U.S. customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 mile (5280 feet, 1760 yards, ≈1.609 kilometre) in length.

Symbols

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There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

• cubic mile
• cu mile
• cu mi
• cu m (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used)
• mile/-3
• mi/-3
• m/-3 (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used)
• mile^3
• mi^3
• m^3 (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used)
• mile³
• mi³
• m³ (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used)

Conversions

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1 cubic mile is equivalent to:

• 147 197 952 000 cubic feet
• 5 451 776 000 cubic yards
• 118 282 962 000 U.S. bushels
• 1 101 117 140 000 U.S. liquid gallons
• ≈26 217 074 761.905 crude barrels
• 4 168 181 830 000 litres
• 4 168 181 830 cubic metres
• 4.16818183 cubic kilometres

See also

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• 1 E-1 m³ for a comparison with other volumes
• Square mile
• Orders of magnitude (volume)
• Conversion of units
• Cube (arithmetic), cube root
  • Cubic equation, cubic function

Units of volume | Imperial units | Customary units in the United States