Guerpont

Guerpont
region	Grand Est
Department	Meuse
Arrondissement	Bar-le-Duc
Canton	Ancerville
Community association	Bar-le-Duc Sud Meuse
Coordinates	48 ° 44 ′ N , 5 ° 15 ′ E Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ N , 5 ° 15 ′ E
height	200–352 m
surface	6.12 km 2
Residents	249 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	41 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	55000
INSEE code	55221
	; Town Hall ( Mairie ) and School of Guerpont

Guerpont is a French commune with 249 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). The municipality is part of the Bar-le-Duc arrondissement , the Ancerville canton (until 2016: Ligny-en-Barrois canton ) and the Bar-le-Duc Sud Meuse community association founded in 2016 .

geography

View of the Ornain

The municipality is crossed by the Ornain and the Rhine-Marne Canal . Guerpont is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Tronville-en-Barrois in the east, Nant-le-Grand in the south, Tannois in the southwest and west, Silmont in the northwest and the municipality of Culey in the canton of Vaucouleurs in the north.

Saint-Evre church

Memorial to the war dead

Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 514-516.

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