Crosne, Essonne

Crosne
Commune
The town hall of Crosne
Coat of arms
Location of Crosne
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Coordinates: 48°42′59″N 2°27′29″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Essonne
Arrondissement	Évry
Canton	Vigneux-sur-Seine
Intercommunality	CA Val d'Yerres Val de Seine
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Michaël Damiati[1]
Area ^1	2.48 km^2 (0.96 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	9,532
• Density	3,800/km^2 (10,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	91191 /91560
Elevation	30–92 m (98–302 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Crosne (French pronunciation: [kʁon] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Essonne department, in the Île-de-France region in northern France. It is also a suburb of Paris, located 18 km from the center of Paris.

Climate

Crosne is located in Île-de-France and enjoys a degraded oceanic climate with cool winters and mild summers, and has regular rainfall throughout the year. The annual average temperature is 10.8 °C, with a maximum of 15.2 °C and a minimum of 6.4 °C. The temperatures per month recorded are 24.5 °C in July at the maximum and 0.7 °C in January at the minimum, but the registered records are 38.2 °C on 1 July 1952 and −19.6 °C on 17 January 1985. Due to the lower urban density between Paris and its suburbs, a negative difference of one to two degrees Celsius is felt strongly. The amount of sunshine is comparable to the average for the northern regions of the Loire with 1,798 hours per year. Precipitation is evenly distributed over the year, with a total of 598.3 millimeters of rain and an approximate average of fifty millimeters per month.

v t e Climate data for departemental station of Brétigny-sur-Orge
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)	43.0 (6.1)	45.7 (7.6)	52.5 (11.4)	58.3 (14.6)	65.5 (18.6)	71.2 (21.8)	76.1 (24.5)	75.6 (24.2)	69.4 (20.8)	60.4 (15.8)	49.8 (9.9)	44.2 (6.8)	59.4 (15.2)
Daily mean °F (°C)	38.1 (3.4)	39.7 (4.3)	44.8 (7.1)	49.5 (9.7)	56.1 (13.4)	61.5 (16.4)	65.8 (18.8)	65.3 (18.5)	60.1 (15.6)	52.7 (11.5)	44.1 (6.7)	39.7 (4.3)	51.4 (10.8)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)	33.3 (0.7)	33.8 (1.0)	37.0 (2.8)	40.6 (4.8)	46.9 (8.3)	52.0 (11.1)	55.4 (13.0)	55.0 (12.8)	50.7 (10.4)	45.0 (7.2)	38.3 (3.5)	35.1 (1.7)	43.5 (6.4)
Average precipitation inches (mm)	1.87 (47.6)	1.67 (42.5)	1.75 (44.4)	1.80 (45.6)	2.11 (53.7)	2.01 (51.0)	2.06 (52.2)	1.91 (48.5)	2.19 (55.6)	2.03 (51.6)	2.13 (54.1)	2.03 (51.5)	23.56 (598.3)
Mean monthly sunshine hours	59	89	134	176	203	221	240	228	183	133	79	53	1,798
Source: [3]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	5,324	—
1975	6,068	+1.89%
1982	7,312	+2.70%
1990	7,966	+1.08%
1999	8,154	+0.26%
2009	9,097	+1.10%
2014	9,048	−0.11%
2020	9,458	+0.74%
Source: INSEE[4]

Inhabitants of Crosne are known as Crosnois in French.

Transport

Crosne is served by Montgeron-Crosne station on the Paris RER line D.^[5]

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Crosne is twinned with:^[6]

• Belœil, Belgium (1964)
• Schotten, Germany (1964)
• Maybole, Scotland, United Kingdom (1982)
• Rýmařov, Czech Republic (1999)

Politics

The mayor of Crosne is Michaël Damiati from Debout la France, starting from 30 March 2014. The commune of Crosne is located in Essonne's 8th constituency, which includes Vigneux-sur-Seine(The Canton of Vigneux-sur-Seine, includes Crosne), Montgeron, Yerres, and Brunoy. Their member of the National Assembly has been Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, the president of Debout la France, since 1997. He was first elected in 1997, followed by getting reelected in 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017.^[7]

See also

• Communes of the Essonne department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. "Monthly Climatology measured from the departemental station of Brétigny-sur-Orge from 1948 to 2002". Retrieved July 14, 2020.
4. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
5. "Gare de Montgeron - Crosne | SNCF".
6. "Les villes jumelées" (in French). Crosne. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
7. "Résultats législatives 2017 Essonne - 8e circonscription".

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Mayors of Essonne Association (in French)