Ornézan

Ornézan
Ornézan
Commune
	The main street in Ornézan
	Location of Ornézan
	Ornézan Ornézan
	Coordinates: 43°30′42″N 0°36′10″E / 43.5117°N 0.6028°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Gers
Arrondissement	Mirande
Canton	Auch-3
Intercommunality	Val de Gers
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Étienne Savary
Area 1	12.13 km2 (4.68 sq mi)
Population (2021)	213
• Density	18/km2 (45/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	32302 /32260
Elevation	165–282 m (541–925 ft) ; (avg. 180 m or 590 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ornézan (French pronunciation: [ɔʁnezɑ̃]; Occitan: Ornesan) is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.

Geography

Localisation

Ornézan is located 16 km south of Auch and 2 km north of Seissan, along the Gers river.

Toponymy

Ornézan finds its origin in the Latin patronymic name Ornatius, followed by the suffix -anum, designing a property of which a man named Ornatius must have been the owner in the times of Roman Gaul.^[3] The village is later known in Latin as Ornezanus and Ornesan in Gascon, before becoming Ornézan in French.

Government and politics

Mayors

Mayor^[4]	Term start	Term end
Julien Labadens	1945	1953
Julien Lacassagne	1953	1959
Germain Tico	1959	1968
Julien Lacassagne	1968	1983
Guy Defaut	1983	1989
Francis Meau	1989	2001
Étienne Savary	2001

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	299	—
1800	273	−1.29%
1806	305	+1.86%
1821	322	+0.36%
1831	364	+1.23%
1841	323	−1.19%
1846	350	+1.62%
1851	344	−0.35%
1856	345	+0.06%
1861	342	−0.17%
1866	332	−0.59%
1872	309	−1.19%
1876	322	+1.04%
1881	297	−1.60%
1886	314	+1.12%
1891	271	−2.90%
1896	255	−1.21%
1901	256	+0.08%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1906	240	−1.28%
1911	247	+0.58%
1921	239	−0.33%
1926	229	−0.85%
1931	239	+0.86%
1936	265	+2.09%
1946	215	−2.07%
1954	221	+0.34%
1962	222	+0.06%
1968	209	−1.00%
1975	209	+0.00%
1982	216	+0.47%
1990	225	+0.51%
1999	237	+0.58%
2007	250	+0.67%
2012	233	−1.40%
2017	229	−0.35%

Source: EHESS^[5] and INSEE^[6]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Valdegers.fr
^ List of mayors from 1945 to this day given by the secretary in the town hall of Ornézan
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Ornézan, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

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[1] "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.

[popleg2021-2] "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[cc-3] Valdegers.fr

[4] List of mayors from 1945 to this day given by the secretary in the town hall of Ornézan

[ehess-5] Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Ornézan, EHESS (in French).

[pophist-6] Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

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