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The following table lists a number of US Customary capacity measures as used in the United States of America. These measures dervived from different versions of old English capacity measures, included containers such as the firkin, kilderkin, puncheon and hogshead. They were often used for different commodities and for each there was often a different capacity in terms of cubic inches or gallons, both in America and in Britain. This table lists the most common uses and the associated capacities in cubic inches of the base unit and its derivatives. Each major use in a column also shows the fractional part or multiple of a gallon in round brackets. In each case the base unit is the gallon and the size is indicated in red to distinguish it from derived values. Other commodities measures as used in Britain are illustrated in separate tables as is a list of less common uses and sizes of some of the containers in this table, such the barrel. Of particular note is the different capacities of the same measure as used in Britain and America. |
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