Syam, Jura

Syam
Commune
Château de Syam
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Jura
Arrondissement	Lons-le-Saunier
Canton	Champagnole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Hervé Gobet
Area1	6.90 km2 (2.66 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)2
INSEE/Postal code	39523 / 39300
Elevation	521–794 m (1,709–2,605 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Syam (French pronunciation: ​[sjam]) is a commune in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

The village is known for the Château de Syam, a large French Empire villa designed by Champennois l'Aîné in 1818.

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% 1793 175 —     1806 177 +1.1% 1821 275 +55.4% 1831 444 +61.5% 1841 399 −10.1% 1851 360 −9.8% 1861 352 −2.2% 1872 404 +14.8% 1881 466 +15.3% 1891 379 −18.7% 1901 322 −15.0% 1921 274 −14.9%	Year Pop. ±% 1931 235 −14.2% 1946 187 −20.4% 1954 233 +24.6% 1962 243 +4.3% 1968 243 +0.0% 1975 232 −4.5% 1982 226 −2.6% 1990 234 +3.5% 1999 221 −5.6% 2008 203 −8.1% 2013 194 −4.4%

See also

• Communes of the Jura department