Combleux

History

Cantons, as administrative divisions, were abolished by a law of 26 June 1793, retaining only an electoral role for electing second-degree electors tasked with appointing deputies. The Constitution of the Year III, applied from Vendémiaire Year IV (1795), abolished districts, seen as administrative mechanisms linked to the Terror, but maintained cantons, which then gained greater importance by resuming an administrative function. Finally, under the Consulate, a territorial redistricting aimed at reducing the number of reduced the number of cantons in Loiret from 58 to 31. Combleux was then attached to the and the Arrondissement of Orléans by decree of 9 Vendémiaire Year X (1 October 1801). In 1806, the commune was attached to the , a new canton formed from one commune of the former canton of Ingré (abolished), seven communes from the canton of Neuville, and three from the canton of Patay. This organization remained unchanged until 1973, when the commune was attached to the Canton of Saint-Jean-de-Braye, then in 1982, it rejoined the Canton of Chécy. From 1966 to 2005, the company IBM operated a site spanning the communes of Combleux and Saint-Jean-de-Braye. In 2016, the commune of Combleux purchased the site, demolished most of the former IBM buildings, and began planning a redevelopment project that includes the construction of new housing.

Geography

The commune of Combleux is located in the center of the Loiret department, in the agricultural region of the Loire Valley and the urban area of Orléans. the prefecture of the department, and from Chécy, the former chief town of the canton to which the commune belonged before March 2015. The commune is part of the living zone of Orléans. The closest communes, with distances measured as the crow flies between chief towns, are: Saint-Jean-de-Braye (), Chécy (), Saint-Denis-en-Val (), Boigny-sur-Bionne (), Semoy (), Saint-Jean-le-Blanc (), Mardié (), Bou (), Orléans () and Fleury-les-Aubrais (). The Orléans region is located in the south of the Paris Basin, a vast basin composed of a stack of sedimentary layers of mainly detrital origins (from the erosion of ancient mountain chains) and carbonate (precipitation of calcium carbonate). These deposits range from the Triassic (- 250 million years) to the Pliocene (- 23 million years) and occur mainly in marine contexts, but also in lacustrine environments. The successions of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary lead to the current geomorphological configuration: more or less deep alteration of the rocks in place, ancient alluvial terraces perched on the plateaus and incision of the current Loire valley The Beauce limestones, which constitute the bedrock of the communal territory, formed during the Aquitanian (from -23 to -20.5 million years). The upper part of this formation, the Pithiviers limestones (m1CPi), the Blamont marls (m1MBI) and the marls and limestones of the Orléanais (m2MCO), occupy a large part of the commune. They are covered in their eastern part by high terrace alluvium of the Loire (Fw), dating from the Pleistocene. The rest of the communal territory is covered by recent alluvium and…

Most-observed species

• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,689
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,646
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,455
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,384
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,308
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,266
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,181
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  783

Most recent

• M 3 — 2008-06-07
  3 km ENE of Cangey, France
• M 3 — 2007-12-17
  3 km W of Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
• M 3.4 — 2007-12-17
  3 km W of Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
• M 2.6 — 2004-05-08
  4 km N of Nouzilly, France
• M 2.7 — 2004-01-30
  5 km ESE of Valençay, France