Montdardier

View of the village of Montdardier
Montdardier

Montdardier and the Tude forest

Coat of arms
Montdardier

Coordinates: 43°55′42″N 3°35′33″E / 43.9283°N 3.5925°E / 43.9283; 3.5925Coordinates: 43°55′42″N 3°35′33″E / 43.9283°N 3.5925°E / 43.9283; 3.5925
Country France
Region Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department Gard
Arrondissement Le Vigan
Canton Le Vigan
Intercommunality Pays viganais
Government
  Mayor (20082014) Daniel Carrière
Area1 35.25 km2 (13.61 sq mi)
Population (2008)2 193
  Density 5.5/km2 (14/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 30176 / 30120
Elevation 259–889 m (850–2,917 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.

Montdardier is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793466    
1800432−7.3%
1806601+39.1%
1821714+18.8%
1831698−2.2%
1836715+2.4%
1841727+1.7%
1846700−3.7%
1851738+5.4%
1856677−8.3%
1861672−0.7%
1866616−8.3%
1872577−6.3%
1876569−1.4%
1881578+1.6%
1886581+0.5%
1891743+27.9%
1896885+19.1%
1901918+3.7%
19061,051+14.5%
1911870−17.2%
1921558−35.9%
1926466−16.5%
1931424−9.0%
1936340−19.8%
1946324−4.7%
1954316−2.5%
1962273−13.6%
1968215−21.2%
1975197−8.4%
1982178−9.6%
1990157−11.8%
1999187+19.1%
2008193+3.2%

Sights

Several quarries above Montdardier were formerly important sources of lithographic limestone. Stone from these quarries, marketed as Vigan stone, earned an honorable mention in the Great Exhibition of 1851.[1]

Montdardier's castle

See also

References

  1. Class I, Report on Mining, Quarrying, Metallurgical Operations, and Mineral Products, Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes Into Which the Exhibition was Divided, Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851, Clowes, London, 1852; page 28.
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