Artas, Isère

Artas

Artas
Location within Rhône-Alpes region Artas
Coordinates: 45°32′10″N 5°09′54″E / 45.5361°N 5.165°E / 45.5361; 5.165Coordinates: 45°32′10″N 5°09′54″E / 45.5361°N 5.165°E / 45.5361; 5.165
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Isère
Arrondissement	Vienne
Canton	Saint-Jean-de-Bournay
Intercommunality	Région Saint-Jeannaise
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Martial Simondant
Area¹	14.15 km² (5.46 sq mi)
Population (2010)²	1,620
• Density	110/km² (300/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	38015 / 38440
Elevation	364–507 m (1,194–1,663 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.

Artas (Occitan: Artàs) is a French commune in the Isère department in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Artasiens or Artasiennes^[1]

Geography

Artas is located some 20 km east by north-east of Vienne and some 8 km south of Villefontaine. Access to the commune is by the D53 road from Charantonnay in the west passing through the heart of the commune and the village and continuing to Saint-Agnin-sur-Bion in the east. The D126 road comes from Roche in the north through the heart of the commune and crossing the D53 in the village before continuing to Saint-Jean-de-Bournay in the south. Apart from the village there are also the hamlets of Le Barroz, Le Revolet, Cinquin, Radoire, Tarnezieux, and La Petite-Foret. The commune is mainly farmland with scattered forests throughout.^[2]

The Ruisseau de Charavoux rises in the west of the commune and flows west to join the Ambalon near Chasse-sur-Rhône.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Artas

Beauvoir-de-Marc

Saint-Jean-de-Bournay

Meyrieu-les-Étangs

History

In the reign of Louis XIV the Oak trees from the Artas Forest provided a large part of the wood needed to build the King's Galleys at Marseille.

Artas was the birthplace of Mother's Day in France on 10 June 1906 - two years earlier than the date of origin of 1908 claimed by the USA.^[3]

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2014	Maurice Barale	UMP
2014	2020	Martial Simondant

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 1,620 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
1,085	1,159	1,101	990	1,253	1,346	1,320	1,181	1,325

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
1,302	1,224	1,203	1,212	1,088	1,071	1,052	1,045	1,025

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
986	1,000	993	874	840	793	750	692	667

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
646	612	658	895	1,026	1,349	-	1,620	-

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

Artas War Memorial

Sites and monuments

Artas Church

A Church with two bell towers from the 12th and 19th centuries.

Artas Picture Gallery

Artas Girls' School
Artas Landscape
The old Town Hall
A street in Artas

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" 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

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Communes of the Isère department

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Artas, Isère