Area 11.29 km² | Region Occitanie Intercommunality Pays de Salars Local time Wednesday 11:53 PM | |
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Weather 6°C, Wind SW at 10 km/h, 91% Humidity | ||
Arques is a French commune in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region of southern France.
Contents
- Map of 12290 Arques France
- Geography
- Toponymy
- History
- Administration
- Demography
- Distribution of Age Groups
- Sites and Monuments
- References
Map of 12290 Arques, France
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arcasois or Arcasoises
Geography
Arques is located some 16 km east by south-east of Rodez and 6 km south of Laissac. Access to the commune is by road D29 from Agen-d'Aveyron in the north-west passing through the commune and the village and continuing south-east to Ségur. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Le Mazet in the eastern arm of the commune and Moulin Fabre and Recoules south of the village. Except for two forests in the north the commune is entirely farmland.
The Ruisseau des Gardies rises in the north of the commune and flows south through the village joining the Viaur south of the village. The Ruisseau de Clauverhes rises in the north-east of the commune and flows south-east to join the Viaur south of the village. The Viaur river flows from the south-west through the southern part of the commune and forming part of the southern border before continuing west to the Barrage of Pont-de-Salars then continuing west to eventually join the Aveyron river at Saint-Martin-Laguépie.
Toponymy
The word Arques derives from the Latin arx meaning "fortress".
History
The lordship of Arques extended over the Palanges mountains and included the current commune of the same name plus two enclaves currently in the communes of Segur and Vézins-de-Lévézou. Arques is mentioned in a donation to the Abbey of Conques in 1079. It was later attached to the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu. It was a dependency of the Lordship of Montrozier, under the Count of Rodez, then of the king.
Administration
List of Successive Mayors
(Not all data is known)
Demography
In 2009 the commune had 118 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.
Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)
Distribution of Age Groups
The table below compares the gender and age of the population with that of the department of Aveyron in the year 2009. Unlike national and departmental allocations, the male population of the town is greater than the female population (52.5% against 48.4% nationally and 48.2% at the departmental level).
Percentage Distribution of Age Groups in Arques and Aveyron Department in 2009
Sources: