Buysscheure

Buysscheure Buisscheure
Coat of arms
Buysscheure
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Buysscheure
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkerque
Canton	Cassel
Intercommunality	pays de Cassel
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jacques Wullems
Area1	6.15 km2 (2.37 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	510
• Density	83/km2 (210/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	59119 / 59285
Elevation	2–50 m (6.6–164.0 ft) (avg. 35 m or 115 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.

Buysscheure (from Dutch, Buisscheure in modern Dutch spelling) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

The source of the river Yser is located here.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	764	—
1800	724	−5.2%
1806	846	+16.9%
1821	926	+9.5%
1831	903	−2.5%
1836	875	−3.1%
1841	865	−1.1%
1846	851	−1.6%
1851	844	−0.8%
1856	826	−2.1%
1861	821	−0.6%
1866	801	−2.4%
1872	795	−0.7%
1876	794	−0.1%
1881	793	−0.1%
1886	790	−0.4%
1891	766	−3.0%
1896	822	+7.3%
1901	700	−14.8%
1906	683	−2.4%
1911	670	−1.9%
1921	609	−9.1%
1926	574	−5.7%
1931	504	−12.2%
1936	504	+0.0%
1946	515	+2.2%
1954	470	−8.7%
1962	453	−3.6%
1968	407	−10.2%
1975	376	−7.6%
1982	405	+7.7%
1990	419	+3.5%
1999	453	+8.1%
2006	502	+10.8%
2009	510	+1.6%

Heraldry

The arms of Buysscheure are blazoned : Gules, a chevron between 3 escallops, within a bordure Or.

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

• INSEE commune file