Billy, Allier

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	Castle Castle
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	Coat of arms of Billy; Coat of arms
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Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Allier
Arrondissement	Vichy
Canton	Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule
Intercommunality	Vichy Val d'Allier
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Jean-Pierre Blanc
Area1	10.22 km2 (3.95 sq mi)
Population (2013)2	843
• Density	82/km2 (210/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	03029 / 03260
Elevation	235–375 m (771–1,230 ft); (avg. 220 m or 720 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.

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Billy (Occitan, Bilhi) is a commune in the Allier department in central France.

Geography

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Billy in the former canton of Varennes-sur-Allier.
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Billy in the Vichy conurbation.
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Billy on the map of Cassini.

Between this village and nearby Créchy, lagerstätten have yielded a rich assemblage of fossils from the Oligocene-Miocene boundary (c. 24-23 million years ago).^[2]