Alpine, Colorado
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Del Norte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81154. It lies near Gerrard Gulch. The Survey maps it on the South Fork East quadrangle. 169 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,287 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAlpine fell from 174 to 169 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 174 | |
| 2020 | 169 | -5 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1914 USGS Creede quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1916 USGS Creede quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1945 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS South Fork East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Del Norte quadrangle1:100000
- 2001 USGS South Fork East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
37 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Alpine between 1993 and 2019, burning about 41 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 3 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | WILLOW |
| 12 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | WILLOW PARK |
| 1 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | MILLION SPOT |
| 6 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | ROOSTER |
| 5 August 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Rio Grande National Forest | SHAW MESA |
| 17 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | LOST LAKE 2 |
| 13 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | not named |
| 9 July 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | CHURCH CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Alpine: 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gerrard | 0.9 miles | 21 | |
| South Fork | 3.0 miles | 22 | |
| Baxterville | 3.8 miles | 22 | |
| Hanna | 6.9 miles | 19 | |
| Del Norte | 12.5 miles | 19 | |
| Evansville | 14.4 miles | 19 | |
| Summitville (historical) | 17.8 miles | 24 | |
| Sevenmile Plaza | 18.8 miles | 17 |
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 | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4735453 | The 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 190281. 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.
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.










