Arrondissement of Thiers


The arrondissement of Thiers is an arrondissement of France in the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has 44 communes. Its population is 56,321, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Thiers, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Arconsat
  2. Aubusson-d'Auvergne
  3. Augerolles
  4. Bort-l'Étang
  5. Bulhon
  6. Celles-sur-Durolle
  7. Chabreloche
  8. Charnat
  9. Châteldon
  10. Courpière
  11. Crevant-Laveine
  12. Culhat
  13. Dorat
  14. Escoutoux
  15. Joze
  16. Lachaux
  17. Lempty
  18. Lezoux
  19. Moissat
  20. La Monnerie-le-Montel
  21. Noalhat
  22. Néronde-sur-Dore
  23. Olmet
  24. Orléat
  25. Palladuc
  26. Paslières
  27. Peschadoires
  28. Puy-Guillaume
  29. Ravel
  30. La Renaudie
  31. Ris
  32. Sainte-Agathe
  33. Saint-Flour
  34. Saint-Jean-d'Heurs
  35. Saint-Rémy-sur-Durolle
  36. Saint-Victor-Montvianeix
  37. Sauviat
  38. Sermentizon
  39. Seychalles
  40. Thiers
  41. Vinzelles
  42. Viscomtat
  43. Vollore-Montagne
  44. Vollore-Ville

    History

The arrondissement of Thiers was created in 1800. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Puy-de-Dôme, it gained four communes from the arrondissement of Clermont-Ferrand, and it lost three communes to the arrondissement of Riom.
As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Thiers were, as of January 2015:
  1. Châteldon
  2. Courpière
  3. Lezoux
  4. Maringues
  5. Saint-Rémy-sur-Durolle
  6. Thiers