Arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould

The arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould is an arrondissement of France, in the Marne department, Grand Est region. Its capital is the city of Sainte-Menehould.

Sainte-Menehould
Former arrondissement
Location within the region Grand Est
Location within the region Grand Est
CountryFrance
RegionGrand Est
DepartmentMarne
No. of communes67
Disbanded2017
SubprefectureSainte-Menehould
Area
1,021 km2 (394 sq mi)
Population
 (2012)
13,927

History

When the Marne department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould was part of that original department.[1]

In 1926, the arrondissement was eliminated but it became again an arrondissement of the Marne department in 1940.[1]

Geography

The arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould is in the northeast of the Marne department. It is bordered to the north by the Ardennes department, to the east by the Meuse department, to the south by the Vitry-le-François arrondissement and to the west by the Châlons-en-Champagne arrondissement.

The arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould is the smallest arrondissement of the department with an area of 1,021.3 km2 (394.3 sq mi) and the one with fewest people living in it (13,821 inhabitants),[2] for a population density of 13.5 inhabitants/km2.

Composition

Cantons

After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[3] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

There is only one canton in the arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould: the canton of Argonne Suippe et Vesle; the communes of this canton are in the arrondissements of Châlons-en-Champagne and of Sainte-Menehould.

Communes

The arrondissement of Sainte-Menehould has 67 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː[4]

  1. Argers (51015)
  2. Auve (51027)
  3. Belval-en-Argonne (51047)
  4. Berzieux (51053)
  5. Binarville (51062)
  6. Braux-Saint-Remy (51083)
  7. Braux-Sainte-Cohière (51082)
  8. Cernay-en-Dormois (51104)
  9. Chaudefontaine (51139)
  10. Châtrices (51138)
  11. Contault (51166)
  12. Courtémont (51191)
  13. Dampierre-le-Château (51206)
  14. Dommartin-Dampierre (51211)
  15. Dommartin-Varimont (51214)
  16. Dommartin-sous-Hans (51213)
  17. Florent-en-Argonne (51253)
  18. Fontaine-en-Dormois (51255)
  19. Givry-en-Argonne (51272)
  20. Gizaucourt (51274)
  21. Gratreuil (51280)
  22. Hans (51283)
  23. Herpont (51292)
  24. La Chapelle-Felcourt (51126)
  25. La Croix-en-Champagne (51197)
  26. La Neuville-au-Pont (51399)
  27. La Neuville-aux-Bois (51397)
  28. Laval-sur-Tourbe (51317)
  29. Le Chemin (51143)
  30. Le Châtelier (51133)
  31. Le Vieil-Dampierre (51619)
  32. Les Charmontois (51132)
  33. Maffrécourt (51336)
  34. Malmy (51341)
  35. Massiges (51355)
  36. Minaucourt-le-Mesnil-lès-Hurlus (51368)
  37. Moiremont (51370)
  38. Noirlieu (51404)
  39. Passavant-en-Argonne (51424)
  40. Rapsécourt (51452)
  41. Remicourt (51456)
  42. Rouvroy-Ripont (51470)
  43. Saint-Jean-sur-Tourbe (51491)
  44. Saint-Mard-sur-Auve (51498)
  45. Saint-Mard-sur-le-Mont (51500)
  46. Saint-Remy-sur-Bussy (51515)
  47. Saint-Thomas-en-Argonne (51519)
  48. Sainte-Menehould (51507)
  49. Servon-Melzicourt (51533)
  50. Sivry-Ante (51537)
  51. Somme-Bionne (51543)
  52. Somme-Tourbe (51547)
  53. Somme-Yèvre (51549)
  54. Sommepy-Tahure (51544)
  55. Tilloy-et-Bellay (51572)
  56. Valmy (51588)
  57. Verrières (51610)
  58. Vienne-la-Ville (51620)
  59. Vienne-le-Château (51621)
  60. Ville-sur-Tourbe (51640)
  61. Villers-en-Argonne (51632)
  62. Virginy (51646)
  63. Voilemont (51650)
  64. Wargemoulin-Hurlus (51659)
  65. Éclaires (51222)
  66. Élise-Daucourt (51228)
  67. Épense (51229)

The communes in the arrondissement with more inhabitants are:

INSEE
code		CommunePopulation[5]
(2014)		CantonIntercommunality
51507Sainte-Menehould4,219Argonne Suippe et VesleL'Argonne Champenoise
51544Sommepy-Tahure631Argonne Suippe et VesleSuippe et Vesle
51399La Neuville-au-Pont556Argonne Suippe et VesleL'Argonne Champenoise
51621Vienne-le-Château528Argonne Suippe et VesleL'Argonne Champenoise
51272Givry-en-Argonne454Argonne Suippe et VesleL'Argonne Champenoise
51610Verrières416Argonne Suippe et VesleL'Argonne Champenoise
51515Saint-Remy-sur-Bussy338Argonne Suippe et VesleSuippe et Vesle
51139Chaudefontaine332Argonne Suippe et VesleL'Argonne Champenoise
51588Valmy296Argonne Suippe et VesleL'Argonne Champenoise
51027Auve281Argonne Suippe et VesleL'Argonne Champenoise

References
  1. "Historique de la Marne". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  2. "Arrondissement de Sainte-Menehould (515)". Comparateur de territoire (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  3. "Décret n° 2014-208 du 21 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de la Marne" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  4. "Arrondissement de Sainte-Menehould (515)". Géographie administrative et d’étude (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  5. "Régions, départements, arrondissements, cantons et communes" (PDF). Populations légales 2014 (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 12 July 2017.

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