Ascou

Ascou
Ascou
	Commune
	The Étang de Goulours
	Location of Ascou
	Ascou Ascou
	Coordinates: 42°43′20″N 1°51′45″E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Ariège
Arrondissement	Foix
Canton	Haute-Ariège
Intercommunality	CC Haute-Ariège
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Claude Carrière
Area 1	35.59 km2 (13.74 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)[1]	121
• Density	3.4/km2 (8.8/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	09023 /09110
Elevation	879–2,360 m (2,884–7,743 ft) ; (avg. 1,005 m or 3,297 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ascou is a commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Ascounais.[2]

Geography

Ascou is an alpine commune located some 40 km south-east of Foix and immediately east of Ax-les-Thermes. The northern border of the commune is the border between the departments of Ariège and Aude. Access to the commune is by the D 25 road which branches off the D 613 east of Ax-les-Thermes and continues through the village and the length of the commune to Mijanès over the mountains to the east. The D 258 road branches off the D 25 in the commune and goes north-east changing to the D 107 at the border and continuing to La Fajolle. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Goulours, Lavail, and Pujal. The commune is entirely alpine in nature with no farmland.[3]

The Ruisseau de l'Adorre rises in the east of the commune and flows west gathering tributaries and changing to the Lauze river before passing the village and continuing west to join the Ariège at Ax-les-Thermes. The Ruisseau de l'Eycherque rise in the north-east of the commune and flows south-west to join the Lauze at the D 25 road. The Riu Caud flows from the north to join the Lauze at the Étang de Goulours[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages[3]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors[4]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2020	Claude Carrière	PS

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 139 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]

Pailhères ski station in summer

The Col de Pailhères on the D25

Population change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
776	613	851	914	925	1,001	837	842	805

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
686	710	695	664	641	565	620	521	521

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
469	456	453	363	310	266	250	274	158

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
136	114	120	81	96	102	-	139	-

Sources: Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Population of Ascou

Sites and monuments

The Parish church in Ascou. Next to the church is a small memorial for those who fell in the First World War

The Parish Church contains a Statue of the Virgin and child which is registered as a historical object.[5]

Notable people linked to the commune

Michel Naudy, journalist and politician.

Notes and references

Notes

At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, 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

"Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
Inhabitants of Ariège (in French)
Google Maps
List of Mayors of France (in French)
Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM09000035 Statue: Virgin and Child (in French)

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[5] At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, 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.

[1] "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[2] Inhabitants of Ariège (in French)

[Google-3] Google Maps

[4] List of Mayors of France (in French)

[6] Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM09000035 Statue: Virgin and Child (in French)