Alpine, Wyoming
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Afton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83128. It stands on Greys River. The Survey maps it on the Alpine quadrangle. 1,220 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,633 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
3 figuresAlpine grew from 550 to 1,220 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 550 | |
| 2010 | 828 | +278 (+51%) |
| 2020 | 1,220 | +392 (+47%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1932 USGS Irwin quadrangle1:125000
- 1932 USGS Irwin quadrangle1:96000
- 1935 USGS Irwin quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Alpine quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Palisades quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
63 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Alpine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 493 acres in total. 38 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 38 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | LONG SPRINGS |
| 7 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | MCNEEL CREEK |
| 5 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | PALISADES |
| 5 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | MCCOY |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | KING CREEK |
| 23 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | not named |
| 22 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Upper Snake Field Office | MILE MARKER 401 |
| 22 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Alpine: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mc Coy Creek Gold Placer I | Gold | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Bradley Mountain (trench CP-56) | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence | ||
| Burnt Timber Canyon (trench CP-48) | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
8 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alpine in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 3 wildfire, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 3 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1997 | Lightning | Alpine | 3 hurt | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Alpine | $10,000 | Heavy rain caused several mudslides across US Highway 89 around milepost 120 in the steep terrain of Snake River Canyon east of Alpine. Rainfall totals were estimated at one-half to three-quarters of an inch in less than 40 minutes. The highway was closed for about three hours and several vehicles were damaged. The slides, mostly composed of mud, were three to four feet deep in some places. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Alpine | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Alpine | - | The Public reported up to quarter size hail in the Star Valley. |
| July 2003 | Wildfire | Alpine | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Wildfire | Alpine | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Wildfire | Alpine | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Alpine | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Junction | 0.6 miles | 17 | |
| Etna | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Star Valley Ranch | 13.7 miles | 9 | |
| Thayne | 16.8 miles | 14 | |
| Bedford | 18.8 miles | 9 | |
| Turnerville | 21.9 miles | 9 | |
| Auburn | 25.6 miles | 12 | |
| Grover | 26.0 miles | 9 |
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 Q1028044 | 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 1597727. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.







