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Place details
- Locality
- Beaumont
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Population
- 12,295
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Department
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Arrondissement
- Clermont-Ferrand
- Canton
- Beaumont
- Intercommunality
- Clermont Auvergne Métropole
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Jean-Paul Cuzin
- Area
- 4.01 km (1.55 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 10,728
- Density
- 2,680/km (6,930/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 63032 /63110
- Elevation
- 393–518 m (1,289–1,699 ft) , (avg. 420 m or 1,380 ft)
- Website
- beaumont63.fr
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Bourg-Montagne
- Demonym
- Beaumontois
- Population
- 10728
- Area
- 4.01
- Elevation
- 437
- Official website
- www.beaumont63.fr
- Image
- Beaumont63 6.JPG
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- Commons category
- Beaumont (Puy-de-Dôme)
- postal code
- 63110
- Commons gallery
- Beaumont (Puy-de-Dôme)
- male population
- 5080
- female population
- 5707
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-4-73-28-88-00
- fax number
- +33-4-73-28-88-09
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Travel guide
Understand
Beaumont was chartered in 1838 just a few years after three businessmen purchased a farming community known as Tevis Bluff and named the newly formed town after one of the men's wives.
From that point, Beaumont charted a course through several epochs, namely from one revolving around rice farming to one devoted to oil extraction with the famous Spindletop oilfield discovery and finally to one centered on shipbuilding as it pertained to World War II needs. This last period was marred to a degree by heightened racial tensions and a race riot.
Beaumont is still a very industrialized city, with even essentially a canal for a river that would normally be the Neches, but it is also somewhat of a cultural nucleus, with plentiful museums and culture venues and the Crockett Entertainment District. It has also been home to a number of celebrities such as The Big Bopper and Babe Zaharias (a famous female athlete). thumb|Entryway to the Crockett Street entertainment district in downtown Beaumont LCCN2014631010
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Article
Beaumont (Auvergnat: Biaumont) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France. The commune lies to the south of the dormant volcano, the Puy-de-Dôme (10 km from the commune and the city) which is clearly visible, including the telecommunication antennas that sit on its top.
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