Area 5.56 km² | Local time Friday 8:41 AM | |
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Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Weather 3°C, Wind SE at 10 km/h, 90% Humidity | ||
Auxant is a French commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France.
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Map of 21360 Auxant, France
Geography
Auxant is located some 20 km north-west of Beaune and 12 km east of Arnay-le-Duc. Access to the commune is by the D 970 road from Sainte-Sabine in the north which passes through the centre of the commune east of the village and continues south-east to Bligny-sur-Ouche. The D 17 road from Antigny-le-Château in the west passes through the south of the commune and joins the D 970 to the south-east. Access to the village is by local roads from the D 970 and from the south. There are large forests in the north-west of the commune (the Forêt d'Auxant and the Bois Fein) with the rest of the commune farmland.
The Eclin river flows through the commune from north-west to south-east and continues to join the Ouche at Bligny-sur-Ouche. The Ruisseau de Navelan rises in the north-east of the commune and flows south-west to join the Eclin near the village.
History
The church dates to 1830, the same year as three Wayside Crosses and a Cemetery Cross.
Administration
List of Successive Mayors
(Not all data is known)
Demography
In 2010 the commune had 71 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 communes 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)