Champs-sur-Yonne | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Champs-sur-Yonne (Yonne).svg |
Arrondissement: | Auxerre |
Canton: | Auxerre-3 |
Insee: | 89077 |
Postal Code: | 89290 |
Mayor: | Stéphane Antunes[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CA Auxerrois |
Coordinates: | 47.7381°N 3.6017°W |
Elevation M: | 109 |
Elevation Min M: | 97 |
Elevation Max M: | 133 |
Area Km2: | 4.39 |
Champ-sur-Yonne (in French pronounced as /ʃɑ̃ syʁ jɔn/) is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.
Its inhabitants are called"Champicaunais". Champs-sur-Yonne is part of the metropolitan area ofAuxerre
Champs is in the Valley of the Yonne River, on the east bank of the river.The soil is alluvial, made both from local limestones and erosionproducts from the source of the Yonne in the Morvan. There islittle agriculture in the mostly built up village, but typical cropsinclude wheat, hemp, and sunflowers.
There have been local settlements in the area since at least Romantimes, but the growth of Champs as a distinct commune dates from thebuilding of the three water mills on the Yonne in the eighteenth century.