Hautmont

Hautmont (French pronunciation: [omɔ̃]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.^[3]

Hautmont
Commune
The town hall in Hautmont
Coat of arms
Location of Hautmont
Hautmont Show map of France Hautmont Show map of Hauts-de-France
Coordinates: 50°14′55″N 3°55′31″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Avesnes-sur-Helpe
Canton	Avesnes-sur-Helpe
Intercommunality	Maubeuge Val de Sambre
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Stéphane Wilmotte[1]
Area 1	12.27 km2 (4.74 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	14,197
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59291 /59330
Elevation	123–184 m (404–604 ft) (avg. 132 m or 433 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

It is 5 km (3 mi) southwest of the centre of Maubeuge, and has 14,500 residents.

On 3 August 2008 a narrow but strong F4 tornado swept through the town, as well as Maubeuge, Neuf-Mesnil and Boussières-sur-Sambre^[4] damaging hundreds of buildings, forty of which collapsed. The tornado killed three people and injured seventeen others.^[5] The tornado was part of an outbreak that produced nine other tornadoes.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	17,870	—
1975	19,175	+1.01%
1982	18,461	−0.54%
1990	17,475	−0.68%
1999	16,029	−0.96%
2007	15,015	−0.81%
2012	14,115	−1.23%
2017	14,574	+0.64%
Source: INSEE[6]

Heraldry

Arms of Hautmont

The arms of Hautmont are blazoned: Or, 3 chevrons sable. (Bersillies, Boeschepe, Boussières-sur-Sambre, Colleret, Cousolre, Flaumont-Waudrechies, Hautmont, Limont-Fontaine, Lompret, Masny, Neuville-en-Avesnois and Saint-Rémy-du-Nord use the same arms.)

International relations

Hautmont is twinned with Kalisz in Poland (since 1958).^[7]

See also

• Communes of the Nord department