Alpine, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Council census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83632. It stands on Grays Creek. The Survey maps it on the Indian Valley quadrangle.

Alpine within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1911 USGS Meadows quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Council quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS McCall quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Indian Valley quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Alpine between 1998 and 2020, burning about 3,683 acres in total. 7 started naturally. None 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
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
2 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.5 acres	Payette National Forest	BACON
14 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Payette National Forest	CAMBRIDGE RURAL ASST
7 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	DUMP
7 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	SCOTCH
7 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	GOODRICH
4 August 2000	Natural	271 acres	Boise District	BEN ROSS
4 August 2000	Natural	2,732 acres	Payette National Forest	GOODRICH
27 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Payette National Forest	MESA FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Alpine: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lucky Star Mine	Copper	Unknown
Diatomite Occurrence	Diatomite	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Indian Valley	Diatomite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Adams 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mesa	3.4 miles	14
Bacon	4.1 miles	11
Indian Valley	4.1 miles	13
Goodrich	5.3 miles	11
Hillsdale (historical)	6.8 miles	13
Council	9.9 miles	14
Hoover	11.3 miles	14
Beer Bottle Crossing	14.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 399416. 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.