Aguilcourt

Aguilcourt
Coat of arms
Aguilcourt
Location within Picardy region  Aguilcourt
Coordinates: 49°24′24″N 3°58′08″E / 49.4067°N 3.9689°ECoordinates: 49°24′24″N 3°58′08″E / 49.4067°N 3.9689°E
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie
Department	Aisne
Arrondissement	Laon
Canton	Neufchâtel-sur-Aisne
Intercommunality	Champagne Picarde
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	Gérard Prêvot
Area^1	10.57 km^2 (4.08 sq mi)
Population (2010)^2	349
• Density	33/km^2 (86/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	02005 / 02190
Elevation	54–102 m (177–335 ft) (avg. 35 m or 115 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Aguilcourt is a French commune in the department of Aisne in the Picardy region of northern France.

The inhabitants of Aguilcourt are known as Aguilcourtois or Aguilcourtoises^[1]

Geography

Aguilcourt is 2 km south of the town of Guignicourt. From Guignicourt the commune can be reached by road D62 which runs from the north-west border of the commune through the village and continues to Orainville in the south-east. Highway D622 runs south-west from the village to Cormicy. The western edge of the commune is traversed by the A26 autoroute (E17) but the nearest exit is Exit 14 north of the commune and west of Guignicourt. Some 200m north-east of the town is the Grand Marais railway station just outside the border of the commune. From here trains run north to Guignicourt and south to Loivre.^[2]

The Suippe river forms most of the commune's northeastern border.

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Heraldry

Blazon: Parti per pale, one gules a cross bottony of Argent and two of Or a lion of Azure.

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Mayors of Aguilcourt^[3]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2008	Jean-Marc Le Gouellec	DVG
2008	2020	Gérard Prévôt

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 349 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the town since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1] [Note 2]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
156	160	167	165	231	275	307	309	313

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
310	312	298	296	264	269	272	274	300

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
282	279	326	192	319	248	254	249	251

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2007	2010
224	242	228	252	328	359	342	339	349

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Aguilcourt War Memorial

Aguilcourt Church

See also

• Communes of the Aisne department

External links

• Aguilcourt on Lion1906
• Aguilcourt on Google Maps
• Aguilcourt on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Aguilcourt on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Aguilcourt on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)

Notes and references

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 , the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" which allow, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For municipalities with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these municipalities is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.
2. In the census table and the graph, by convention in Wikipedia, and to allow a fair comparison between five yearly censuses, the principle has been retained for subsequent legal populations since 1999 displayed in the census table and the graph that shows populations for the years 2006, 2011, 2016, etc., as well as the latest legal population published by INSEE

References

1. Inhabitants of France, 17 May 2013 (French)
2. Google Maps
3. List of Mayors of France