Créchy

Créchy
The railway station in the early 20th century
Coat of arms
Créchy
Location within Auvergne region  Créchy
Coordinates: 46°15′44″N 3°25′27″E / 46.2622°N 3.4242°ECoordinates: 46°15′44″N 3°25′27″E / 46.2622°N 3.4242°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Allier
Arrondissement	Vichy
Canton	Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule
Intercommunality	Varennes Forterre
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Luce Billet[1]
Area^1	11.61 km^2 (4.48 sq mi)
Population (2012)^2	486
• Density	42/km^2 (110/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	03091 / 03150
Elevation	233–344 m (764–1,129 ft) (avg. 232 m or 761 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.

Créchy is a commune in the Allier department in central France.

Between this village and nearby Billy, lagerstätten have yielded a rich assemblage of fossils from the Oligocene-Miocene boundary (c. 24-23 million years ago).^[2]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	356	—
1968	440	+23.6%
1975	331	−24.8%
1982	425	+28.4%
1990	481	+13.2%
1999	442	−8.1%
2008	473	+7.0%
2012	486	+2.7%

See also

• Communes of the Allier department

References

• INSEE

1. "Liste nominative des communes de l'Allier (avec maire, arrondissement et canton)" [Nominative list of communes of Allier (with mayor, arrondissement and canton)] (PDF). Association of Mayors and Presidents of Communities of Allier (in French). 1 April 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
2. Hugueney et al. (2003)

• Hugueney, Marguerite; Berthet, Didier; Bodergat, Anne-Marie; Escuillié, François; Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile & Wattinne, Aurélia (2003): La limite Oligocène-Miocène en Limagne: changements fauniques chez les mammifères, oiseaux et ostracodes des différents niveaux de Billy-Créchy (Allier, France) [The Oligocene-Miocene boundary in Limagne: faunal changes in the mammals, birds and ostracods from the different levels of Billy-Créchy (Allier, France)] [French with English abstract]. Geobios 36(6): 719–731. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2003.01.002 (HTML abstract)