Arnos

Arnos is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

Arnos
Commune
A general view of Arnos
Location of Arnos
Arnos
Arnos
Coordinates: 43°27′29″N 0°31′54″W
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentPyrénées-Atlantiques
ArrondissementPau
CantonArtix et Pays de Soubestre
IntercommunalityCC Lacq-Orthez
Government
 • Mayor (2014-2020) Alain Pédegert
Area
1
5.69 km2 (2.20 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
113
 • Density20/km2 (51/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
64048 /64370
Elevation133–232 m (436–761 ft)
(avg. 155 m or 509 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arnosiens or Arnosiennes.[2]

Geography
Arnos Church

Arnos is located some 25 km north-west of Pau and 10 km east of Arthez-de-Béarn. Access to the commune is by road D276 from Castillon in the west passing through the commune and the village and continuing south-east then east to join the D945. There is a large Formula 3 racetrack in the south of the commune run by the Moto Club Pau-Arnos. The commune consists of farmland except for a few small patches of forest.[3]

Located in the Drainage basin of the Adour, Arnos is traversed by the Aubin, a tributary of the Luy de Béarn.[4]

Places and Hamlets[5]
  • Bousquet
  • Carracou
  • Cassauba
  • Castandet
  • Castéra
  • Marquine
  • Monplaisir
  • Montagut
  • Pallane
  • Pédoussau
  • Péré
  • Péruilh
  • Péruillet
  • Pétrou
  • Poey (ruins)
  • Saintong
  • Sansot

Neighbouring communes and villages[3]

Toponymy

The name Arnos appears in the form Arnas on the Cassini Map.[6]

History

In the 16th century, Arnos was an annex of Boumourt.[6]

Administration
The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors[7]

FromToNamePartyPosition
18321852Henri Pétrou
19952001André Bourdieu
20012020Alain Pedegert

(Not all data is known)

Inter-communality

Arnos is part of four inter-communal structures:

  • the Community of communes of Lacq;
  • the Water and sanitation association of Trois Cantons ;
  • the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques ;
  • the inter-communal association of Arthez-de-Béarn.

Demography

In 2009, the commune had 68 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.[Note 1]

Population change (See database)
1793 1800 1806 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851
252 204 243 290 302 254 241 259 231
1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896
226 200 187 198 191 186 189 175 160
1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954
158 153 155 119 118 115 106 99 100
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2009 -
71 74 63 70 68 68 - 68 -
Arnos War Memorial
Population of Arnos

Sports Venues
circuit Pau-Arnos Race Track

The racing Circuit Pau-Arnos is in the south of the commune.[8]

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 , the so-called "law of local democracy" and, in particular, Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually; the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Inhabitants of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  3. Google Maps
  4. SANDRE Notice on Arnos (in French)
  5. Géoportail, IGN (in French)
  6. Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011, p. 10 (in French)
  7. List of Mayors of France (in French)
  8. Pau-Arnos Racing Circuit website (in French)
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