Alpine, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Silver Peak census division. The Survey maps it on the Gilbert SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Alpine within Esmeralda County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1907 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:250000
1908 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Gilbert SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Alpine (historical): 6 occurrences, 5 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Silver, Lead, Lead. 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
Alpine Eagle Claims	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence	Replacement
Dutchess Prospect	Gold, Copper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Fluorite
Lone Mountain	Molybdenum, Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold	Past Producer
Northern Alpine Prospect	Silver, Gold, Lead	Occurrence	Anglesite, Galena
Spring Basin	Silver, Zinc, Gold	Occurrence
Stephenson Wollastonite	Wollastonite	Occurrence
Swanson Claims	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	Barite, Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Galena, Sphalerite
Alaska Patent	Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Galena
Alpine Eagle Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Molybdenum	Prospect	Chrysocolla, Galena, Hemimorphite, Malachite, Sphalerite, Wulfenite
Alpine Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Molybdenum	Past Producer	1903, 1908

Every working recorded in Esmeralda 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
McLeans	4.9 miles	14
Barrel Spring (historical)	5.2 miles	23
Camp Harding (historical)	6.5 miles	16
Weepah	6.7 miles	23
Millers	9.5 miles	15
Alum (historical)	9.8 miles	23
Blair Junction (historical)	11.2 miles	13
Montezuma Wells	12.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 851899. 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.

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.