Aguessac

Aguessac
Chateau of Cabrières Chateau of Cabrières
Aguessac
Location within Midi-Pyrénées region Aguessac
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Aveyron
Arrondissement	Millau
Canton	Millau-Est
Intercommunality	Millau Grands Causses
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	Aimé Heral
Area1	17.64 km2 (6.81 sq mi)
Population (2010)2	860
• Density	49/km2 (130/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	12002 / 12520
Elevation	367–869 m (1,204–2,851 ft) (avg. 372 m or 1,220 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Aguessac is a French commune in the Aveyron department in the Midi-Pyrénées region of southern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Nagassols or Nagassoles

Geography

Aguessac is just south of the Massif Central and is located some 4 km north of Millau and 20 km south of Severac-le-Chateau. It can be accessed by the D29 road branching off the D911 in the west and continuing into the commune and south to the village. There is also the D809 coming from Millau in the south passing through the village and continuing north to join the A75 autoroute. The D907 goes north-east from the village to Riviere-sur-Tarn and the D167 goes west by a tortuous mountain route to Saint-Germain. The famous Millau Viaduct (Viaduc de la Garrigue) is on the A75 autoroute immediately to the west of the commune. The commune is mixed forest and high country farmland.

There are many streams flowing through the commune: the Ruisseau de Malbose forms the northern border of the commune, the Lumansonesque forms the eastern border flowing into the Tarn river which forms the southern part of the eastern border. The Lumansonesque is fed by the Barbade with its numerous tributaries which forms part of the western border before flowing across the commune and joining the Lumansonesque.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Aguessac

Mayors from the French Revolution to 1926

From	To	Name
1793	1795	Guillaume Assayrous
1795	1799	Alexandre Baldet
1800	1806	Jean Amans Barascut
1807	1816	Jean Joseph Quezac
1816	1822	Jean Magloire
1823	1827	Jean Antoine Fabre
1826	1829	Jean Baptiste Colliere
1829	1830	François Julien
1830	1836	Jean-Joseph Quezac
1836	1840	Camille Triadou
1840	1847	Jean-Joseph Quezac
1847	1848	Camille Triadou
1848	1852	Jean-Antoine Alegre
1852	1865	Jean-Pierre Decombis
1865	1876	René Demnes
1876	1878	Victor Vivier
1878	1881	Jean-Joseph Demnes
1881	1884	Jean-Joseph Quezac
1884	1904	Sylvain Baldeyrou
1904	1912	Camille Benoit
1912	1925	Louis Rascalou
1925	1926	Amédé Baldeyrou

Mayors from 1926

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1926	1947	Victor Arlabosse
1947	1959	Paul Bringuier
1959	1965	Jules Fau
1965	1977	Julien de Roquetaillade
1977	1983	Louis Vales
1983	1989	Julien de Roquetaillade
1989	1995	Louis Vales
1995	2008	Jacques Commayras
2008	2020	Aimé Heral

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010, the commune had 860 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through 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.

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
575	629	-	-	748	771	763	773	760

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
747	789	822	753	1,165	786	775	709	644

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
668	686	631	597	579	645	608	596	712

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
731	709	714	615	811	833	832	860	-

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

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Population of Aguessac

Distribution of Age Groups

The gender and age of the population of the Aguessac commune in 2009 and, comparatively, that of the department of Aveyron in the same year are represented in the following table. The population of the commune was 53.6% men and 46.4% women in 2009. It has a structure on average slightly younger than the population of metropolitan France. There are in fact 117 young people under 20 years old for every 100 people over 60 years (giving a youth index of 1.17), while for France the youth index, which is equal to the division of the share of less than 20 years the share of the of 60 years, is 1.06. The Youth Index for the commune is also higher than for the department (0.67) and for of the region (0.89).

Percentage Distribution of Age Groups in Aguessac and Aveyron Department in 2009

	Aguessac	Aguessac	Aveyron	Aveyron
Age Range	Men	Women	Men	Women
0 to 14 Years	22.9	17.0	16.7	15.1
15 to 29 Years	14.1	12.8	15.1	13.4
30 to 44 Years	22.9	22.0	18.9	17.8
45 to 59 Years	21.4	24.2	21.6	20.3
60 to 74 Years	10.1	11.1	16.9	17.5
75 to 89 Years	8.6	11.4	10.2	14.2
90 Years+	0.0	1.5	0.6	1.7

Sources:

• Evolution and Structure of the population of the Commune in 2009, INSEE.
• Evolution and Structure of the population of the Department in 2009, INSEE.

Economy

The economy of the commune is agricultural and characterized by traditional agriculture based on farming for the production of calves and lambs for fattening. There are twelve farms in this commune.

Sites and monuments

• The Chateau of Cabrières

Notable people linked to the commune

• Emma Calvé (1858-1942) at the height of her fame bought the Chateau of Cabrières in 1884 before selling it to a manufacturer of gloves a few years later.

See also

• Cantons of the Aveyron department
• Communes of the Aveyron department
• Arrondissements of the Aveyron department

External links

• Aguessac official website (French)
• Aguessac on the old National Geographic Institute website (French)
• Aguessac on Lion1906
• Aguessac on Google Maps
• Aguessac on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Aguesac on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Aguessac on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)