Auvillers-les-Forges

The old railway station

Coat of arms

Auvillers-les-Forges

Location within Grand Est region

Auvillers-les-Forges

Coordinates: 49°51′49″N 4°21′31″E / 49.8636°N 4.3586°ECoordinates: 49°51′49″N 4°21′31″E / 49.8636°N 4.3586°E

Country

Signy-le-Petit

Ardennes Thiérache

Government

• Mayor (2014–2020)

Miguel Leroy

Area¹

8.19 km² (3.16 sq mi)

Population (2010)²

897

• Density

110/km² (280/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

08037 / 08260

Elevation

235–296 m (771–971 ft)
(avg. 290 m or 950 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.

Auvillers-les-Forges is a French commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of northern France.

Geography

Auvillers-les-Forges is located some 27 km west by north-west of Charleville-Mézières and 22 km east by south-east of Hirson. Access to the commune is by the European route E44 from Maubert-Fontaine in the east which passes through the north of the commune intersecting the D877 in the commune and continuing to Hirson in the west. Access to the village is by the D877 from Éteignières in the north which passes through the length of the commune and the village and continues south to Champlin. The D20 goes south-east from the village to Girondelle. Apart from the village there is the hamlet of Le Chateau-Vert north-east of the village. There is a large forest in the north of the commune (the Bois d'Auviller-les-Forges) but the rest of the commune is farmland.^[1]

The Sormonne River flows through the commune from west to east just north of the village and continues east to join the Meuse at Charleville-Mézières. The Ruisseau de Saint-Rémy rises just west of the village and flows south-west to join the Orvaux east of Fontenelle.^[1]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[1]

Éteignières

Neuville-lez-Beaulieu

Maubert-Fontaine

Auvillers-les-Forges

Antheny

Champlin

Girondelle

Heraldry

	Blazon: Party per chevron, Gules with two fleurs-de-lis of Argent first, Azure a forge tongs of Or and a hammer the same saltirewise, tongs to dexter surmounted by hammer to sinister second; over all a chevron of Or.

Administration

The Town Hall

The covered market

List of Successive Mayors^[2]

From	To	Name
1891	1919	Gustave Tanton
1919	1923	Camille Decq
1923	1929	Maurice Tourolle
1929	1944	Paul Martin
1944	1945	Edgard Faucon
1945	1947	Georges Pacaux
1947	1959	Julien Lagneaux
1959	1965	Paul Hottiaux
1965	1980	Abdon Lemaire
1980	1983	Pierre Gillot
1983	1995	Martial Guilain
1995	1998	Bruno Coniglio
1998	2014	Daniel Schanen
2014	2020	Miguel Leroy

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 897 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)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
534	559	543	632	661	750	736	712	758

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
-	-	639	672	675	653	689	697	698

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
720	774	810	753	783	761	760	694	690

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
803	811	784	799	822	833	-	897	-

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

The War Memorial

The Church

Notes and references

Notes

↑ 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, 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 2 3 Google Maps
↑ List of Mayors of France (French)

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