Croix-Chapeau

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Croix-Chapeau
Commune
Town hall
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Coordinates: 46°06′34″N 1°00′20″W / 46.1094°N 1.0055°W / 46.1094; -1.0055Coordinates: 46°06′34″N 1°00′20″W / 46.1094°N 1.0055°W / 46.1094; -1.0055
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement	La Rochelle
Canton	La Jarrie
Intercommunality	CA La Rochelle
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Patrick Bouffet
Area 1	4.83 km2 (1.86 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	1,266
• Density	260/km2 (680/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	17136 /17220
Elevation	17–51 m (56–167 ft) (avg. 24 m or 79 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Croix-Chapeau (French pronunciation: ​[kʁwa ʃapo]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

History[]

From 1953 to 1966 there was a 500-bed U.S. Army hospital in Croix-Chapeau, run by the 28th General Hospital unit,^[2] which is actually located on the neighboring town of Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis. For a while after 1966 it was used as a French Military Hospital. After being abandoned for several years, it was sold to a developer, who in the 2000s repurposed it as an industrial park.^[2]

Notable people[]

Paul Henderson, born August 15, 1962 in Croix-Chapeau, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory for Australia.

Population[]

See also[]

• Communes of the Charente-Maritime department

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Croix-Chapeau.

• Photograph of the abandoned American Army hospital at Croix-Chapeau, Flickr
• [1], Web site of the village : http://www.croix-chapeau.fr/

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