Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Aspen Springs

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Aspen Springs

10% of Aspen Springs’ homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1953 on.

0on the National Register
10%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory

What stands out about Aspen Springs’ 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 Aspen Springs are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Aspen Springs’ homes were built before 1963.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Aspen Springs’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Aspen Springs’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Aspen Springs, in brief

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

Aspen Springs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mono County, California, United States. It lies at an elevation of 7,109 feet (2,167 m). The population was 70 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 65 to 70 (+8%).

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

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.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Aspen Springs on the map, 1953 to 1990

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

Aspen Springs on the 1953 USGS mapAspen Springs on the 1984 USGS mapAspen Springs on the 1990 USGS map1953Casa Diablo Mtn 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 Aspen Springs.

Famous people

Famous people close to Aspen Springs

Nobody well known was born in Aspen Springs itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

See all →
Trevor DonovanAmerican actor · b. 1978
Matt WilliamsAmerican baseball player and coach · b. 1965
Stanton BarrettRacecar driver · b. 1972
Claire Vaye WatkinsAmerican writer · b. 1984
C
Carly MarguliesAmerican freestyle skier · b. 1997
J
Jim TracyAmerican ski coach

Questions about Aspen Springs’ history

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
Sources

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 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.