Barnas

Barnas
Coat of arms
Barnas
Location within Rhône-Alpes region  Barnas
Coordinates: 44°40′07″N 4°10′14″E / 44.6686°N 4.1706°ECoordinates: 44°40′07″N 4°10′14″E / 44.6686°N 4.1706°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ardèche
Arrondissement	Largentière
Canton	Thueyts
Intercommunality	Ardèche des Sources et Volcans
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Joël Laurent
Area^1	26.51 km^2 (10.24 sq mi)
Population (2008)^2	226
• Density	8.5/km^2 (22/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	07025 / 07330
Elevation	431–1,494 m (1,414–4,902 ft) (avg. 464 m or 1,522 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.

Barnas is a French commune in the Ardèche department in the Rhône-Alpes region of southern France.^[1]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barnassiens or Barnassiennes.^[2]

Geography

Barnas is located some 20 km west by north-west of Aubenas and 30 km east by south-east of Pradelles. Access to the commune is by Route nationale N102 which passes through the centre of the commune and the village from Mayres in the west and continuing to Thueyts in the east. The commune is mostly forest and moderately mountainous. There is a hotel and petrol station in the commune.^[3][4]

The Ardèche river flows through the commune from west to east parallel to the highway. There are a number of tributaries that feed into the river in the commune. On the right bank from west to east these are:

• The Ruisseau d'Abraham
• The Ruisseau des Combes
• The Ruisseau de l'Horesson
• The Ruisseau de Bournazon
• The Ruisseau de Chadenac Ou de Chateau which form the eastern border of the commune.

On the left bank the river is fed by:

• The Ruisseau du Grand VaVat
• The Rieu Jilieux
• The Ruisseau de la Farre
• The Ruisseau du Saut which forms the eastern border north of the river.

Mapping

A list of online mapping systems can be displayed by clicking on the coordinates (latitude and longitude) in the top right hand corner of this article.

Neighbouring communes and villages

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History

Barnas appears as Barnas on the 1750 Cassini Map^[5] but does not appear at all on the 1790 version.^[6]

Heraldry

Blazon: Party per bend, at 1 a branch in pale with three apples to dexter 2 and 1; at 2 a mount of two hillocks mounted on a terrace in base charged with Bars gemelle wavy and a fess wavy in chief; over all a bend charged with 6 roundels in bend.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[7]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1959	2001	René Vidal	PCF
2001	2020	Joel Laurent

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 999 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 communes that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
			627	556	661	605	459	405

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
352	307	219	206	214	204		229	-

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

Sites and Monuments

• The Chapdenac Tower
• A 19th century Church

See also

• Communes of the Ardèche department

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 and 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. Barnas on Lion1906
2. Inhabitants of Ardèche (French)
3. Barnas on Google Maps
4. Barnas on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
5. Barnas on the 1750 Cassini Map
6. Barnas (not shown) on the 1790 Cassini Map
7. List of Mayors of France (French)