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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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Alpine within Lincoln County

Population over time

3 figures

Alpine 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.

YearPeople Change
2000550
2010828+278 (+51%)
20201,220+392 (+47%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

63 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural38
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestLONG SPRINGS
7 September 2005Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestMCNEEL CREEK
5 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestPALISADES
5 September 2008Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestMCCOY
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestKING CREEK
23 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National Forestnot named
22 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUpper Snake Field OfficeMILE MARKER 401
22 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mc Coy Creek Gold Placer IGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Bradley Mountain (trench CP-56)Phosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Burnt Timber Canyon (trench CP-48)Phosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1997LightningAlpine3 hurtno account filed
August 2014Flash FloodAlpine$10,000Heavy 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 2007Flash FloodAlpine$5,000no account filed
June 2025HailAlpine-The Public reported up to quarter size hail in the Star Valley.
July 2003WildfireAlpine-no account filed
July 2001WildfireAlpine-no account filed
August 2001WildfireAlpine-no account filed
July 1998HailAlpine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Alpine Junction0.6 miles17
Etna9.0 miles15
Star Valley Ranch13.7 miles9
Thayne16.8 miles14
Bedford18.8 miles9
Turnerville21.9 miles9
Auburn25.6 miles12
Grover26.0 miles9

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 AlpineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1028044The 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.