Le Noirmont

History

Le Noirmont is first mentioned in 1454 as Noirmont. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Schwarzenberg, however, that name is no longer used.

Geography

Le Noirmont has an area of . Of this area, or 50.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 42.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.6% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, 37.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.0% is used for growing crops and 31.4% is pastures and 18.2% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.

Most-observed species

• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  3,903
• red fox

  Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  2,566
• European roe deer

  Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  2,240
• Yellow-legged hornet

  Vespa velutina Lepeletier, 1836 · Insecta
  2,058
• Common Blue

  Polyommatus icarus (von Rottemburg, 1775) · Insecta
  1,929
• Small Heath

  Coenonympha pamphilus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  1,815
• Small Skipper

  Thymelicus sylvestris (Poda, 1761) · Insecta
  1,513
• Ringlet

  Aphantopus hyperantus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  1,487

Most recent

• M 4.1 — 2025-07-21
  4 km E of Frutigen, Switzerland
• M 3.5 — 2024-06-27
  1 km SSW of Todtmoos, Germany
• M 4.4 — 2023-03-22
  1 km NW of Pont-de-Roide, France
• M 3.9 — 2022-09-10
  1 km WSW of Zimmersheim, France
• M 4.1 — 2021-12-24
  2 km WSW of Blamont, France
• M 3.1 — 2018-05-04
  2 km W of Schliengen, Germany