Ornézan

Ornézan is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.

Ornézan
Commune
The main street in Ornézan
Location of Ornézan
Ornézan Ornézan
Coordinates: 43°30′42″N 0°36′10″E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Gers
Arrondissement	Mirande
Canton	Auch-3
Intercommunality	Val de Gers
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Étienne Savary
Area ^1	12.13 km^2 (4.68 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	229
• Density	19/km^2 (49/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 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Localisation

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

Ornézan and its surrounding communes

Neighbouring communes

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.[2] The village is later known in Latin as Ornezanus and Ornesan in Gascon, before becoming Ornézan in French.

Government and politics

Mayors

Mayor[3]	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[4] and INSEE[5]

See also

• Communes of the Gers department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Valdegers.fr
3. List of mayors from 1945 to this day given by the secretary in the town hall of Ornézan
4. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Ornézan, EHESS. (in French)
5. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE