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Alpine Village, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Markleeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96120. It lies near West Carson Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Woodfords quadrangle. 224 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,604 feet above sea level.

Alpine Village within Alpine County

Then and now

1889 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Alpine Village, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Alpine Village, surveyed 1889

Population over time

2 figures

Alpine Village grew from 114 to 224 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010114
2020224+110 (+96%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 28 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

205 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Alpine Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,702 acres in total. 126 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural126
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking3
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarson City District OfficeWNA 8
4 September 1998Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestMILL
30 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCarson City District OfficeWNA 10
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarson City District OfficeEDUCATION
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestDEEP
29 September 2008Naturalunder an acreCarson City District OfficeSINGLE TREE
25 September 1998Naturalunder an acreCarson City District OfficeBIA9
25 September 1994Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestUSFS 086

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alpine County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,527 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,527 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alpine Village between 1888 and 1975: 2,270 Animalia, 152 Fungi, 99 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Bartel, A. C. Browne, A. Eastwood and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Puccinia hieracii (Röhl.) H.Mart.Puccinia hieracii (Röhl.) H.Mart.1894F. P. Nutting
A photograph of the species Geococcyx californianus, not of this specimenGeococcyx californianus (Lesson, 1829)1888Ingersoll, A.M.
A photograph of the species Aplodontia rufa, not of this specimenAplodontia rufa californica (Peters, 1864)1894F. StephensHope Valley
A photograph of the species Lepus townsendii, not of this specimenLepus townsendii Bachman, 18391894F. StephensHope Valley
A photograph of the species Sorex palustris, not of this specimenSorex palustris navigator (Baird, 1858)1894Frank StephensAbove Woodfords
A photograph of the species Spermophilus beldingi, not of this specimenSpermophilus beldingi Merriam, 18881894F. StephensHope Valley
A photograph of the species Tamias quadrimaculatus, not of this specimenTamias quadrimaculatus Gray, 18671894F. StephensMarkleeville
A photograph of the species Tamias speciosus, not of this specimenTamias speciosus frater J.A.Allen, 18901894F. StephensMarkleeville
A photograph of the species Tamiasciurus douglasii, not of this specimenTamiasciurus douglasii (Bachman, 1839)1894F. StephensHope Valley
A photograph of the species Zapus princeps, not of this specimenZapus princeps J.A.Allen, 18931894F. Stephensabove Woodfords
A photograph of the species Anacamptodon splachnoides, not of this specimenAnacamptodon splachnoides (Froel. ex Brid.) Brid.1900Josephine D. LoweBurnside
A photograph of the species Setophaga coronata, not of this specimenSetophaga coronata auduboni (J.K.Townsend, 1837)1910Collector(s): Milton S. RayCold Creek Meadow, near Star Lake

All 2,527 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Alpine Village: 5 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American Salt Co.SaltProducer
Black JackLeadOccurrenceGalena
Cal-Pine MineTungsten, GoldPast ProducerHematite, Pyrite, Scheelite
Heise Boulder QuarryBromineProducer
Highland MaryGold, SilverOccurrence
Hope Valley No 1CalciumOccurrence
Burns Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unidentified WorkingSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Alpine FairviewCopper, GoldPast ProducerVein
Alpine Fairview MineCopper, GoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Alpine County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Woodfords0.4 miles28
Mesa Vista2.6 miles28
Paynesville3.2 miles28
Fredericksburg4.2 miles28
Sorensens4.5 miles31
Shay Creek Summer Home Area5.5 miles28
Markleeville5.7 miles28
Marklee Village5.8 miles28

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Alpine VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1837567The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1877182. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.