Artres

Artres
Coat of arms
Artres
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Artres
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Valenciennes
Canton	Valenciennes-Sud
Intercommunality	Valenciennes Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Christian Lerat
Area1	6.59 km2 (2.54 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	1,040
• Density	160/km2 (410/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	59019 / 59269
Elevation	39–96 m (128–315 ft) (avg. 84 m or 276 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Artres is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. A group of grave objects from a Frankish noble lady was found in Artres in the nineteenth century. Known as the Artres Treasure, it is now mostly in the British Museum.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1800	245	—
1806	203	−17.1%
1821	259	+27.6%
1831	552	+113.1%
1836	666	+20.7%
1841	711	+6.8%
1846	819	+15.2%
1851	804	−1.8%
1856	899	+11.8%
1861	969	+7.8%
1866	952	−1.8%
1872	1,005	+5.6%
1876	1,019	+1.4%
1881	1,048	+2.8%
1886	1,032	−1.5%
1891	1,054	+2.1%
1896	1,050	−0.4%
1901	1,047	−0.3%
1906	1,042	−0.5%
1911	973	−6.6%
1921	892	−8.3%
1926	908	+1.8%
1931	950	+4.6%
1936	979	+3.1%
1946	966	−1.3%
1954	999	+3.4%
1962	995	−0.4%
1968	905	−9.0%
1975	853	−5.7%
1982	979	+14.8%
1990	1,087	+11.0%
1999	1,071	−1.5%
2006	1,059	−1.1%
2009	1,040	−1.8%

Heraldry

The arms of Artres are blazoned : Or, a cross engrailed gules. (Artres, Bettrechies, Cerfontaine, Denain, Eth, Lesquin, Obies, Quérénaing, Semousies, Wambrechies and Warlaing use the same arms.)

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

• INSEE commune file