Créchy

Créchy is a commune in the Allier department in central France.

Créchy
Commune
The railway station in the early 20th century
Coat of arms
Location of Créchy
Créchy Créchy
Coordinates: 46°15′44″N 3°25′27″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Allier
Arrondissement	Vichy
Canton	Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule
Intercommunality	Varennes Forterre
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Catherine Jonet[1]
Area ^1	11.61 km^2 (4.48 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[2]	455
• Density	39/km^2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	03091 /03150
Elevation	233–344 m (764–1,129 ft) (avg. 232 m or 761 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Between this village and nearby Billy, lagerstätten have yielded a rich assemblage of fossils from the Oligocene-Miocene boundary (c. 24-23 million years ago).[3]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	356	—
1968	440	+23.6%
1975	331	−24.8%
1982	425	+28.4%
1990	481	+13.2%
1999	442	−8.1%
2008	473	+7.0%
2012	486	+2.7%

See also

• Communes of the Allier department

References

1. "Liste nominative des communes de l'Allier" [Nominative list of communes of Allier] (PDF) (in French). Association of Mayors and Presidents of Communities of Allier. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
3. Hugueney et al. (2003)

• Hugueney, Marguerite; Berthet, Didier; Bodergat, Anne-Marie; Escuillié, François; Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile & Wattinne, Aurélia (2003): La limite Oligocène-Miocène en Limagne: changements fauniques chez les mammifères, oiseaux et ostracodes des différents niveaux de Billy-Créchy (Allier, France) [The Oligocene-Miocene boundary in Limagne: faunal changes in the mammals, birds and ostracods from the different levels of Billy-Créchy (Allier, France)] [French with English abstract]. Geobios 36(6): 719–731. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2003.01.002 (HTML abstract)