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Y, Somme

Commune in Hauts-de-France, France

Field	Value
name	Y
commune status	Commune
image	Comunne Y picardhiv68.jpg
caption	Sign marking the exit of the village of Y in the Somme department of Picardy
coordinates
arrondissement	Péronne
canton	Ham
demonym	Ypsilonien(ne)
intercommunality	Est de la Somme
mayor	Vincent Joly
term	2020–2026
elevation m	72
elevation min m	56
elevation max m	82
area km2	2.73
population
population date
population footnotes
INSEE	80829
postal code	80190
image coat of arms	FRA Y COA.svg
adjustable map	File:80829-Y-Sols.png

Note

the French commune

|image coat of arms = FRA Y COA.svg

Y ( ) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Y bears the shortest place name in France, and one of the shortest in the world. The inhabitants call themselves Ypsilonien(ne)s, from the Greek letter Upsilon (Υ), which looks like the letter Y.

Geography

Y is situated 50 km east of Amiens, at the junction of the D15 and D615 roads, in the far eastern side of the department.

Climate

In 2010, the climate of the commune was type 3, according to a study by French National Centre for Scientific Research based on a series of data covering the period 1971–2000. In 2020, Météo-France published a typology of the climate of metropolitan France, in which the commune is exposed to an oceanic climate and is in the North-East climatic region of the Paris basin, characterized by average sunshine, average rainfall regularly distributed throughout the year, and a cold winter (3 °C).

For 1971–2000, the mean annual temperature was 10.4°C, with an annual temperature range of 15.1°C. The average annual rainfall total is 709 mm, with 11 days of precipitation in January and 8.7 days in July. For 1991–2020, the average annual temperature observed at the nearest weather station, located in the municipality of Estrées-Mons, 8 kilometers away per great-circle navigation, is 11.0°C and the mean annual precipitation total is 647.5 mm. For the future, the municipality's climate parameters estimate for 2050 according to different greenhouse gas emission scenarios can be consulted on a dedicated website published by Météo-France in November 2022.

History

The district belonged to the Y family from Vermandois.

The village was caught up in the First World War. It was decorated by a Croix de guerre on 15 December 1920. The Church of Saint-Médard was rebuilt in 1921 after the destruction caused by the First World War.

Since 2002, the commune has been part of the community of communes of the Pays Hamois, which succeeded the district of Ham, created in 1960. Then on 1 January 2017, Pays Hamois and that of the Pays Neslois, merged.

Politics and administration

The commune is located in the Arrondissement of Péronne in the Somme department of northern France. Since 1958, the commune has elected deputies from Somme's 5th constituency.

Since 1801, the commune has been a part of the Canton of Ham. During the 2014 cantonal redistribution in France, the boundaries of the canton were expanded from 19 to 67 communes.

List of mayors

In office	Mayor	Ref.
March 2001	2014	Charles Carpentier
2014	Incumbent	Vincent Joly

Population

At the French Revolution the commune had 160 inhabitants; as of 2017 its legal population was 92 inhabitants.

| graph-pos = bottom |1793 | 160 |1800 | 156 |1806 | 148 |1821 | 161 |1831 | 179 |1836 | 202 |1841 | 208 |1846 | 218 |1851 | 205 |1856 | 209 |1861 | 234 |1866 | 226 |1872 | 196 |1876 | 183 |1881 | 194 |1886 | 192 |1891 | 189 |1896 | 186 |1901 | 210 |1906 | 199 |1911 | 148 |1921 | 106 |1926 | 116 |1931 | 114 |1936 | 121 |1946 | 125 |1954 | 143 |1962 | 123 |1968 | 116 |1975 | 86 |1982 | 90 |1990 | 82 |1999 | 89 |2007 | 80 |2012 | 93 |2017 | 92

References

(13 September 2022). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises.
Ash, Russell. (10 November 2011). "Boring, Botty and Spong". RHCP.
(12 September 1997). "Dictionary gives labels for locals 'From Abilene to Zimbabwe'". Deseret Times.
Joly, Daniel. (2010-06-18). "Les types de climats en France, une construction spatiale". Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography.
"Un peu de géographie".
"Distance between Y and Estrées-Mons".
"Station Météo-France « Estrees-mons-inra » (commune d'Estrées-Mons) - fiche climatologique - période 1991-2020".
"Station Météo-France « Estrees-mons-inra » (commune d'Estrées-Mons) - fiche de métadonnées".
"CLIMADIAG COMMUNE par Météo-France".
Notice historique et géographique, réalisée par l'instituteur, M. Huguet, 1899, Archives départementales, Amiens
Journal officiel du 16 décembre 1920, p. 20825.
Oswald Macqueron, « Aquarelle : Église d'Y, d'après nature, 18 octobre 1876. » [archive], Documents numérisés, fonds Macqueron, Bibliothèque municipale d'Abbeville.
{{Cassini-Ehess. 41375. Y
[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-80829#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

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