Créchy

Créchy
Créchy
Administration
Country	France
Region	Auvergne
Department	Allier
Arrondissement	Vichy
Canton	Varennes-sur-Allier
Intercommunality	Varennes Forterre
Mayor	Luce Billet (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	233–344 m (764–1,129 ft) (avg. 232 m/761 ft)
Land area1	11.61 km2 (4.48 sq mi)
Population2	473  (2008)
- Density	41 /km2 (110 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	03091/ 03150
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.

Coordinates: 46°15′44″N 3°25′27″E / 46.2622222222°N 3.42416666667°E / 46.2622222222; 3.42416666667

Créchy is a commune in the Allier department in central France.

Between this village and nearby Billy, lagerstätten have yielded a rich assemblage of fossils from the Oligocene-Miocene boundary (c. 24-23 million years ago).^[1]

Population

Historical population of Créchy

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008
356	440	331	425	481	442	473

See also

• Communes of the Allier department

References

• INSEE

1. ^ Hugueney et al. (2003)

• Hugueney, Marguerite; Berthet, Didier; Bodergat, Anne-Marie; Escuillié, François; Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile & Wattinne, Aurélia (2003): La limite Oligocène-Miocène en Limagne: changements fauniques chez les mammifères, oiseaux et ostracodes des différents niveaux de Billy-Créchy (Allier, France) [The Oligocene-Miocene boundary in Limagne: faunal changes in the mammals, birds and ostracods from the different levels of Billy-Créchy (Allier, France)] [French with English abstract]. Geobios 36(6): 719–731. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2003.01.002 (HTML abstract)