Saint-Pierre-le-Viger

Saint-Pierre-le-Viger is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Saint-Pierre-le-Viger
Commune
Location of Saint-Pierre-le-Viger
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Coordinates: 49°49′27″N 0°51′02″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Saint-Valery-en-Caux
Intercommunality	CC Côte d'Albâtre
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Daniel Legros[1]
Area 1	5.45 km2 (2.10 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	261
• Density	48/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76642 /76740
Elevation	32–91 m (105–299 ft) (avg. 40 m or 130 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Hosting the farming village of the same name, the mainly agricultural commune is bisected by the north-flowing Dun. It is 12 miles (19 km) southwest of the large coastal town Dieppe in the Pays de Caux, where the D237, the D89 and the D142 roads meet.

Meteorite find

The commune bore the first find of the 2023 CX1 metre-sized asteroid or meteroid's meteorites.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	314	—
1975	298	−0.74%
1982	258	−2.04%
1990	257	−0.05%
1999	274	+0.71%
2007	274	+0.00%
2012	267	−0.52%
2017	257	−0.76%
Source: INSEE[3]

Places of interest

• The church of St. Joseph-Benoît Cottolengo, built in 1958, after the destruction of most of the village during 1944.
• The sixteenth century manorhouse.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department