Ornézan

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

Ornézan
Commune
The main street in Ornézan
Location of Ornézan
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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

Population change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1841	1846	1851	1856
299	273	305	322	364	323	350	344	345

1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896	1901
342	332	309	322	297	314	271	255	256

1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954	1962
240	247	239	229	239	265	215	221	222

1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2011	-	-
209	209	216	225	237	248	237	-	-

Sources: Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)[4]

Population Over Time

0	1800   1820   1840   1860   1880   1900   1920   1940   1960   1980   2000
Sources - database Cassini of EHESS and Insee See database

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. Census of population on 1 January 2006 on the site of Insee.