Arignac

Arignac
Gypsum from Arignac
Arignac
Location within Midi-Pyrénées region  Arignac
Coordinates: 42°52′19″N 1°36′05″E / 42.8719°N 1.6014°ECoordinates: 42°52′19″N 1°36′05″E / 42.8719°N 1.6014°E
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Ariège
Arrondissement	Foix
Canton	Tarascon-sur-Ariège
Intercommunality	Pays de Tarascon
Government
• Mayor (2001–2020)	Philippe Pujol
Area^1	8.84 km^2 (3.41 sq mi)
Population (2009)^2	706
• Density	80/km^2 (210/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	09015 / 09400
Elevation	467–1,371 m (1,532–4,498 ft) (avg. 470 m or 1,540 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.

Arignac is a French commune in the Ariège department in the Midi-Pyrénées region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arignacois or Arignacoises^[1]

Geography

Arignac is located 2 km north of Tarascon-sur-Ariège and some 11 km south of Foix. Access to the commune is by road D88 from Tarascon-sur-Ariège in the south passing through the village and continuing north-east to join National Highway N20 at Exit 14. The N20 passes through the south-east of the commune but the nearest exit is Exit 14 just east of the commune. The town covers about 10% of the commune with the rest mostly forest and hill country with a few farms in the south.^[2]

The Ariège river forms the south-eastern border of the commune and the Saurat flows south through the commune and the town to join the Ariège.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[3]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1900	1919	Louis Philippe
2001	2020	Philippe Pujol

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 706 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes 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
580	508	612	596	789	751	781	813	860

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
800	818	803	729	780	800	820	778	786

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
712	684	613	509	549	528	506	481	494

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	-
464	502	532	683	626	583	680	706	-

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

Celestine from Arignac

See also

• Communes of the Ariège department

External links

• Arignac on Lion1906
• Arignac on Google Maps
• Arignac on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Arignac on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Arignac 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" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes 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

1. Inhabitants of Ariège (French)
2. Google Maps
3. List of Mayors of France (French)