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History · Alpine Village

Half of Alpine Village’s homes were built after 1978

Most of Alpine Village was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1978. Below: maps from 1956 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
3%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Alpine Village’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Alpine Village are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Alpine Village, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Alpine Village’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Carey's Mills
1858–1869
Woodfords
1869–1914
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Woodfords
1cemetery inside Alpine Village
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Alpine Village, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Alpine Village yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Alpine Village (formerly, Alphine Village) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Alpine County, California, United States. The population was 224 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 114 to 224 (+96%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Alpine Village, 1858 to 1956

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1858Post officeThe Carey's Mills post office opens
  3. 1869Post officeThe Carey's Mills post office closes
  4. 1869Post officeThe Woodfords post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1914Post officeThe Woodfords post office closes
  7. 1956On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Alpine Village on the map, 1956 to 1979

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Alpine Village. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Alpine Village on the 1956 USGS mapAlpine Village on the 1979 USGS map1956Freel Peak sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Alpine Village.

People over time

Alpine Village, census by census

010020020002020Peak: 224

Between 114 and 224 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Alpine Village’s Wikipedia page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Mesa VistaIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Alpine Village’s history

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.