Buksnes Municipality

Buksnes Municipality
Buksnes herred
View of Gravdal and surrounding area
View of Gravdal and surrounding area
Nordland within Norway
Nordland within Norway
Buksnes within Nordland
Buksnes within Nordland
Coordinates: 68°07′01″N 13°33′37″E / 68.11694°N 13.56028°E / 68.11694; 13.56028
CountryNorway
CountyNordland
DistrictLofoten
Established1 Jan 1838
 • Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished1 Jan 1963
 • Succeeded byVestvågøy Municipality
Administrative centreGravdal
Government
 • Mayor (1956-1962)Alsing Wik (H)
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total103.9 km2 (40.1 sq mi)
 • Rank#521 in Norway
Highest elevation955.91 m (3,136.19 ft)
Population
 (1962)
 • Total4,373
 • Rank#197 in Norway
 • Density42.1/km2 (109/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years)
Decrease −5.5%
DemonymBuksnesfolk[2]
Official language
 • Norwegian formBokmål[3]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1860[5]

Buksnes is a former municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The 104-square-kilometre (40 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1963. It comprised the western part of the island of Vestvågøya in what is now Vestvågøy Municipality. The administrative centre was located in the village of Gravdal where the main church for the municipality, Buksnes Church, is located. Other villages in Buksnes included Ballstad and Leknes.[6][7]

Prior to its dissolution in 1963, the 104-square-kilometre (40 sq mi) municipality was the 521st largest by area out of the 705 municipalities in Norway. Buksnes Municipality was the 197th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 4,373. The municipality's population density was 42.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (109/sq mi) and its population had decreased by 5.5% over the previous 10-year period.[8][9]

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  2. ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  3. ^ "Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1932. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m". Norsk Lovtidend (in Norwegian). Oslo, Norway: Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri: 453–471. 1932.
  4. ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
  5. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  6. ^ Store norske leksikon. "Buksnes – tidl. kommune" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  7. ^ Helland, Amund (1908). "Buksnes herred". Norges land og folk: Nordlands amt (in Norwegian). Vol. XVIII. Kristiania, Norway: H. Aschehoug & Company. p. 619. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  8. ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "Table: 06913: Population 1 January and population changes during the calendar year (M)" (in Norwegian).
  9. ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå (1 January 1951). Norges Sivile, Geistlige, Rettslige og Militære Inndeling 1. Januar 1951 (PDF). Norges Offisielle Statistikk (in Norwegian). Oslo, Norge: H. Aschehoug & Co.