Orsans, Aude

Orsans
Orsans
Location within Languedoc-Roussillon region  Orsans
Coordinates: 43°09′44″N 1°58′59″E / 43.1622°N 1.9831°ECoordinates: 43°09′44″N 1°58′59″E / 43.1622°N 1.9831°E
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Aude
Arrondissement	Carcassonne
Canton	Fanjeaux
Intercommunality	Piège et Lauragais
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean Bonnafil
Area^1	9.94 km^2 (3.84 sq mi)
Population (2008)^2	90
• Density	9.1/km^2 (23/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	11268 / 11270
Elevation	304–400 m (997–1,312 ft) (avg. 355 m or 1,165 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.

Orsans is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.

Orsans is a small hamlet in the south of France, it used to be an important village with a school and many farming supplies, but now is just a small farming community. There is a medieval church and there used to be a large windmill on the hill, which is now gone, however the storage house, (which was also a cowshed for a while) remains, now converted into a house. There is a statue in the square which celebrates the ceased or injured form Orsans in WW1. A small stream runs through the hills that are used for farming. On top of the largest hill in or sans there is a large old water tower, that is surrounded by cows.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	134	—
1968	141	+5.2%
1975	93	−34.0%
1982	93	+0.0%
1990	76	−18.3%
1999	101	+32.9%
2008	90	−10.9%

See also

• Communes of the Aude department

References

• INSEE