Croze
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Croze | |
---|---|
Coordinates: 45°49′11″N 2°09′42″E / 45.8197°N 2.1617°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
Department | Creuse |
Arrondissement | Aubusson |
Canton | Felletin |
Intercommunality | CC Creuse Grand Sud |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Didier Ternat[1] |
Area 1 | 22.16 km2 (8.56 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 188 |
• Density | 8.5/km2 (22/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 23071 /23500 |
Elevation | 518–841 m (1,699–2,759 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Croze (French: [kʁɔz]) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.
Geography
Croze is an area of forestry and farming, comprising the village and a couple of hamlets, located at the confluence of the Creuse with the Gioune, some 10 miles (16 km) south of Aubusson at the junction of the D35 and the D982 roads.
Population
Year | Pop. | ±% |
---|---|---|
1962 | 207 | — |
1968 | 245 | +18.4% |
1975 | 196 | −20.0% |
1982 | 211 | +7.7% |
1990 | 202 | −4.3% |
1999 | 211 | +4.5% |
2008 | 185 | −12.3% |
Notable sites
- A twelfth-century church of St. John at Montel-Guillaume.
- The fifteenth-century chapel of St. Antoine.
- The nineteenth-century château de Mas-Laurent, which replaced an earlier building.
Personalities
- Lucien Le Cam, mathematician, was born here.
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Croze.
Categories:
- CS1 French-language sources (fr)
- Use dmy dates from August 2023
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Coordinates on Wikidata
- Pages using infobox settlement with image map1 but not image map
- Pages with French IPA
- Commons category link from Wikidata
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Communes of Creuse
- All stub articles
- Creuse geography stubs
- Pages using the Kartographer extension