Montdardier

Montdardier (Occitan: Montdardièr) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

View of the village of Montdardier
Montdardier
Commune
Montdardier and the Tude forest
Coat of arms
Location of Montdardier
Montdardier
Montdardier
Coordinates: 43°55′42″N 3°35′33″E
CountryFrance
RegionOccitanie
DepartmentGard
ArrondissementLe Vigan
CantonLe Vigan
IntercommunalityPays viganais
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Daniel Carrière
Area
1
35.25 km2 (13.61 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
201
 • Density5.7/km2 (15/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
30176 /30120
Elevation259–889 m (850–2,917 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population
Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793466—    
1800432−7.3%
1806601+39.1%
1821714+18.8%
1831698−2.2%
1836715+2.4%
1841727+1.7%
1846700−3.7%
1851738+5.4%
1856677−8.3%
1861672−0.7%
1866616−8.3%
1872577−6.3%
1876569−1.4%
1881578+1.6%
1886581+0.5%
1891743+27.9%
YearPop.±%
1896885+19.1%
1901918+3.7%
19061,051+14.5%
1911870−17.2%
1921558−35.9%
1926466−16.5%
1931424−9.0%
1936340−19.8%
1946324−4.7%
1954316−2.5%
1962273−13.6%
1968215−21.2%
1975197−8.4%
1982178−9.6%
1990157−11.8%
1999187+19.1%
2008193+3.2%

Sights
  • The castle in neo-gothic style
  • La Tude massif
  • The church

Several quarries above Montdardier were formerly important sources of lithographic limestone. Stone from these quarries, marketed as Vigan stone, earned an honorable mention in the Great Exhibition of 1851.[2]

Montdardier's castle

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Class I, Report on Mining, Quarrying, Metallurgical Operations, and Mineral Products, Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes Into Which the Exhibition was Divided, Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851, Clowes, London, 1852; page 28.


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