Vaux-le-Moncelot () is a

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in the

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Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...

in eastern

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. Its inhabitants are the Vauxlemonçois.

Geography

Vaux-le-Moncelot includes a communal forest, with an area of 80 hectares, made up of 77% of pedunculate oaks, 14% of

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, 7% of

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, less than 3% of other hardwoods and

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. It is operated by the National Forestry Office. The town is crossed to the west by the Jouanne stream.

Bordering municipalities

Town planning

Typology

Vaux-le-Moncelot is a rural municipality, because it is part of the municipalities with little or very little density, within the meaning of the municipal density grid of INSEE. In addition, the municipality is part of the attraction area of

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, of which it is a municipality in the crown. This area, which includes 312 municipalities, is categorized in areas of 200,000 to less than 700,000 inhabitants.

Land use

The zoning of the municipality, as reflected in the database European occupation biophysical soil Corine Land Cover (CLC), is marked by the importance of the agricultural land (77.3% in 2018), nevertheless down compared to 1990 (79.2%). The detailed breakdown in 2018 is as follows: * arable land (38.7%) * meadows (38.4%) * forests (17.4%) * areas with shrub and/or herbaceous vegetation (2.9%) * areas urbanized (2.5%) * heterogeneous agricultural areas (0.2%). The IGN also provides an online tool to compare the evolution over time of land use in the municipality (or in territories at different scales). Several eras are accessible as aerial maps or photos: the Cassini map (18^th century), the map of Staff (1820-1866) and the current period (1950 to present).

Politics and administration

Administrative and electoral attachments

The town is part of the district of

Vesoul Vesoul () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté located in eastern France. It is the most populated municipality of the department with inhabitants in 2014. The same year, the Communauté d'agglo ...

in the department of

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Intercommunality

Vaux-le-Moncelot has been a member since 2007 of the community of municipalities of Monts de Gy, a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation (EPCI) with its own taxation created at the end of 1999 and to which the municipality has transferred a certain number of its powers, under the conditions determined by the general code of local authorities.

Demography

In 2018, the town had 72 inhabitants, down 6% compared to 2013.

Local culture and heritage

Places and monuments

Fontaine-lavoir built in 1861 to plans by the Grayl architect Christophe Colard.