| Le Chaffaut-Saint-Jurson | |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Le Chaffaut Saint Jurson.svg |
| Arrondissement: | Digne-les-Bains |
| Canton: | Riez |
| Insee: | 04046 |
| Postal Code: | 04510 |
| Mayor: | Claude Estienne[1] |
| Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
| Intercommunality: | CA Provence-Alpes |
| Coordinates: | 44.0389°N 6.1508°W |
| Elevation M: | 584 |
| Elevation Min M: | 470 |
| Elevation Max M: | 960 |
| Area Km2: | 36.2 |
Le Chaffaut-St-Jurson (in French pronounced as /lə ʃafo sɛ̃ ʒyʁsɔ̃/; Occitan (post 1500);: Lo Chafauc e Sant Jurson) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.
The village is located at an altitude of 584 meters, in the valley of the Bléone.
The differents commune adjacent to Le Chauffaut-Saint-Jurson are Aiglun, Digne-les-Bains, Châteauredon, Mézel, Saint-Jeannet, Malijai, Mirabeau, Mallemoisson.
The locality of Chaffaut appeared for the first time in the textes between 1064 and 1079 (in Kadalfucho). The term comes from the north-occitan translating cadalfac, naming a house with an outside staircase and a balcony according to Ernest Nègre, from catafalicum, meaning scaffold or siege tower according to Bénédicte and Jean-Jacques Fénié.
Saint-Jurson is a deformation of the name of the holy patron saint of the church, saint Georges, apostle of the Velay.