Barnas

Barnas is a commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southern France.[2]

Barnas
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Barnas
Barnas Barnas
Coordinates: 44°40′07″N 4°10′14″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ardèche
Arrondissement	Largentière
Canton	Haute-Ardèche
Intercommunality	Ardèche des Sources et Volcans
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Joël Laurent
Area ^1	26.51 km^2 (10.24 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	207
• Density	7.8/km^2 (20/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	07025 /07330
Elevation	431–1,494 m (1,414–4,902 ft) (avg. 464 m or 1,522 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barnassiens or Barnassiennes.[3]

Geography

Barnas is located some 20 km west by northwest of Aubenas and 30 km east by southeast of Pradelles. Access to the commune is by Route nationale N102 which passes through the centre of the commune and the village from Mayres in the west and continuing to Thueyts in the east. The commune is mostly forest and moderately mountainous. There is a hotel and petrol station in the commune.[4][5]

The Ardèche river flows through the commune from west to east parallel to the highway. There are a number of tributaries that feed into the river in the commune. On the right bank from west to east these are:

• The Ruisseau d'Abraham
• The Ruisseau des Combes
• The Ruisseau de l'Horesson
• The Ruisseau de Bournazon
• The Ruisseau de Chadenac Ou de Chateau which form the eastern border of the commune.

On the left bank the river is fed by:

• The Ruisseau du Grand VaVat
• The Rieu Jilieux
• The Ruisseau de la Farre
• The Ruisseau du Saut which forms the eastern border north of the river.

History

Barnas appears as Barnas on the 1750 Cassini Map[6] but does not appear at all on the 1790 version.[7] The commune Barnas was created in 1913 from part of the commune of Thueyts.[8]

Heraldry

Arms of Barnas

Blazon: Party per bend, at 1 a branch in pale with three apples to dexter 2 and 1; at 2 a mount of two hillocks mounted on a terrace in base charged with Bars gemelle wavy and a fess wavy in chief; over all a bend charged with 6 roundels in bend.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors[9]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1959	2001	René Vidal	PCF
2001	2020	Joel Laurent

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 207 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1921 627 —     1926 556 −2.37% 1931 661 +3.52% 1936 605 −1.75% 1946 459 −2.72% 1954 405 −1.55% 1962 352 −1.74% 1968 307 −2.25%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1975 219 −4.71% 1982 206 −0.87% 1990 214 +0.48% 1999 204 −0.53% 2007 223 +1.12% 2012 216 −0.64% 2017 207 −0.85%
Source: EHESS[8] and INSEE[10]

Sites and Monuments

• The Chapdenac Tower
• A 19th century Church

See also

• Communes of the Ardèche department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Barnas on Lion1906
3. Inhabitants of Ardèche (in French)
4. Barnas on Google Maps
5. Barnas on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
6. Barnas on the 1750 Cassini Map
7. Barnas (not shown) on the 1790 Cassini Map
8. Données Cassini, EHESS
9. List of Mayors of France (in French)
10. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE