Saint-Michel (Gers)

Saint-Michel ; Sent Miquèu
region	Occitania
Department	Gers
Arrondissement	Mirande
Canton	Mirande-Astarac
Community association	Astarac Arros en Gascogne
Coordinates	43 ° 26 ' N , 0 ° 25' E Coordinates: 43 ° 26 ' N , 0 ° 25' E
height	168-286 m
surface	16.56 km 2
Residents	253 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	15 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	32300
INSEE code	32397
	; School, town hall and post office of Saint-Michel

Saint-Michel ( Gascon : Sent Miquèu) is a French municipality with 253 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Gers in the region Occitania (2015 Midi-Pyrénées ); it belongs to the Arrondissement Mirande and the municipality of Astarac Arros en Gascogne . The residents call themselves Saint-Michelais / Saint-Michelaises .

geography

Saint-Michel is about ten kilometers south of Mirande and 28 kilometers southwest of Auch in the south of the Gers department. The community consists of hamlets, numerous scattered settlements and individual farmsteads. The Baïsole flows into the Baïse in the municipality . The Baïse forms the municipal boundary in parts.

Neighboring municipalities are Ponsampère and Berdoues in the north, Belloc-Saint-Clamens in the northeast, Moncassin and Saint-Élix-Theux in the east, Sauviac in the southeast, Montaut in the south, Sainte-Dode in the south and southwest and Bazugues in the northwest.

history

Original masters were the Seigneurs de Taran. Later, Saint-Jaymes, Saint-Michel and Saragailloles were in the Mirande dominion within the county of Astarac in the historic Gascony region and shared their fate. All three parishes belonged to the Mirande district from 1793 to 1801. Since 1801, all three original municipalities have been assigned to the Arrondissement of Mirande and Saint-Jaymes and Saint-Michel belonged to the Canton of Mirande from 1793 to 2015 . Sarragailloles belonged to the canton of Miélan from 1793 to 1830. The municipality has only existed in its current form since 1830. As early as 1822, the municipalities of Saint-Jaymes (1821: 174 inhabitants) and Saint-Michel (1821: 592 inhabitants) were united and in 1830 the previous municipality of Saragailloles (1821: 133 inhabitants) came together ).

Population development

year	1793	1821	1846	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2011	2016
Residents	857	899	1082	395	373	353	316	276	241	260	266	258
today's municipal area Sources: Cassini, Saint-Jaymes Cassini, Saint-Michel Cassini, Saragailloles and INSEE