Sorel-Moussel

Sorel-Moussel
Saint-Roch church in Sorrel-Moussel
Sorel-Moussel
Location within Centre-Val de Loire region  Sorel-Moussel
Coordinates: 48°50′31″N 1°22′59″E / 48.8419°N 1.3831°ECoordinates: 48°50′31″N 1°22′59″E / 48.8419°N 1.3831°E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Eure-et-Loir
Arrondissement	Dreux
Canton	Anet
Intercommunality	Val d'Eure et Vesgre
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Norbert Maître
Area^1	12.8 km^2 (4.9 sq mi)
Population (2008)^2	1,802
• Density	140/km^2 (360/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	28377 / 28260
Elevation	64–137 m (210–449 ft) (avg. 90 m or 300 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.

Sorel-Moussel is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

It holds an important archaeological site known as Fort-Harrouard _(fr), a Neolithic village first studied at the turn of the 20th century by abbé Philippe.

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  Fort Harrouard _(fr)
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  Ladle made from a bison acetabulum, i.e. hip joint cavity in the iliac bone, found in Fort-Harrouard

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	796	—
1968	822	+3.3%
1975	894	+8.8%
1982	1,011	+13.1%
1990	1,317	+30.3%
1999	1,479	+12.3%
2008	1,802	+21.8%

See also

• Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department

References

• INSEE