Urbise

Urbise
Commune
Town hall
Urbise Urbise
Coordinates: 46°15′18″N 3°53′34″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Loire
Arrondissement	Roanne
Canton	Renaison
Intercommunality	Roannais Agglomération
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Aimé Combaret
Area 1	15.5 km2 (6.0 sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	42317 /42310
Elevation	269–330 m (883–1,083 ft) (avg. 200 m or 660 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Urbise (French pronunciation: ​[yʁbiz]) is a commune in the Loire department in central France.

It is located 39 kilometres (24 mi) northeast of Vichy and 28 kilometres (17 mi) northwest of Roanne, on departmental routes D8, D52 and D490, close to the border with Saône-et-Loire.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 490 —     1821 495 +1.0% 1831 457 −7.7% 1841 399 −12.7% 1851 418 +4.8% 1861 500 +19.6% 1872 500 +0.0% 1881 520 +4.0% 1891 496 −4.6% 1901 438 −11.7% 1911 398 −9.1% 1921 330 −17.1%

Year Pop. ±% 1931 281 −14.8% 1946 255 −9.3% 1954 252 −1.2% 1962 247 −2.0% 1968 247 +0.0% 1975 191 −22.7% 1982 171 −10.5% 1990 152 −11.1% 1999 140 −7.9% 2009 136 −2.9% 2017 130 −4.4%

See also

• Communes of the Loire department