Alrance

Alrance
The town hall and church in Alrance
Alrance
Location within Midi-Pyrénées region Alrance
Coordinates: 44°07′57″N 2°41′03″E / 44.1325°N 2.6842°E / 44.1325; 2.6842Coordinates: 44°07′57″N 2°41′03″E / 44.1325°N 2.6842°E / 44.1325; 2.6842
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Aveyron
Arrondissement	Millau
Canton	Salles-Curan
Intercommunality	Lévézou Pareloup
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	Jean-Pierre Drulhe
Area¹	35.43 km² (13.68 sq mi)
Population (2009)²	404
• Density	11/km² (30/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	12006 / 12430
Elevation	719–971 m (2,359–3,186 ft) (avg. 735 m or 2,411 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.

Alrance is a French commune in the Aveyron department in the Midi-Pyrénées region of southern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alrançais or Alrançaises^[1]

Geography

Alrance is located some 30 km west of Millau and about 50 km north-east of Albi. The commune can be accessed by the D56 road which runs north-east from Durenque and intersects the road D25 in the commune. It continues north through the commune to Arvieu. The D25 comes south-east from Salmiech through most of the length of the commune and continues south-east to Villefranche-de-Panat. Access to the village is from the north-east on road D659 which runs off the D577 south of the Lac de Pareloup. The D659 runs south-west and ends at the village. The D528 also runs off the D25 in the south of the commune to the village.^[2]

The commune is mostly farmland with some forest and covered by many country roads. There are a number of other hamlets and villages in the commune. These are:

L'Adrech
Bonneguide
Boussinesq
Le Bouviale
La Capelle Farcel
La Coste
Las Fenials
Flauvelou
Fretanels
Le Jouanesq
Lacan
Le Mas Nespoulous
Le Mas Viala
Le Mas Vialet
Montcouzac
Nazareth
La Niade
Pentezac
Peyrebrune
La Rouquette
Le Sales
La Vacaresse

A number of streams rise in the commune and flow to the Lac de Villefranche-de-Panat at the southern border of the commune. The streams include L'Alrance, Ruisseau du Lagasi, and several others. Some streams rise in the north of the commune and flow northwards eventually joining Le Ceor river which eventually flows to the Viaur at Castelpers.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Salmiech

Arvieu

Bonnevial

Auriac-Lagast

Violon Bas

Alrance

Durenque

Villefranche-de-Panat

Le Vialaret

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Alrance^[3]

From	To	Name
1844	1856	Jean Joseph Terral
1856	1860	Adrien Seguret
1861	1862	Jean-Antoine Barthe
1862	1864	Jean-Joseph Terral
1864	1870	Jean-Antoine Barthe
1870	1871	François Gisquet
1871	1878	Joseph Gagraud
1878	1916	Adolphe Gagraud
1916	1919	Léopold Gautier
1919	1934	Adolphe Gagraud
1934	1953	Paul Serin
1953	1959	Gabriel Gintrand
1959	1971	Edouard Galtier
1971	1977	Auguste Fabre
1977	2001	Hubert Bonnefous
2001	2008	Jacques Montrozier
2008	2020	Jean-Pierre Drulhe

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 404 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]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	987	1,023

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
990	992	942	974	906	994	998	892	854

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
831	846	803	815	792	755	719	676	731

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
702	625	550	528	468	417	389	404	-

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

Sites and Monuments

The Tower of Peyrebrune.

The Lac de Villefranche-de-Panat just south of the commune border provides power and water activities for the commune
The Church of Alrance and Church of La Capelle-Farcel
The Tower of Peyrebrune (a chapel and remains of a castle)

Notable People linked to the commune

Jean-Baptiste Angles, a missionary in Japan.

Notes and references

Notes

↑ 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.

References

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Communes of the Aveyron department

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