Alpine (Utah)

Utah County

49-00540

Alpine is a small town in Utah County, in the U.S. state of Utah with 7738 inhabitants in the year 2005. The settlement is situated on 1509 m altitude at the upper end of the Utah Valley to Utah Lake to the west of running in a north-south direction Wasatch Mountains. Alpine is limited by a spur of the Wasatch Range called Transverse Range in the north and is a part of the settlement axis below the mountains, ranging from Lehi to Provo. It counts as a suburb to the Provo - Orem metropolitan area (Provo - Orem metropolitan area ).

History

Its history begins with Mormon pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, who moved in 1850 to the south of Salt Lake City to colonize the region at Utah Lake systematically. Later in Alpine at the upper end of the valley settled in September 1850, the first family down, because the lakeshore was claimed by earlier in the same year arrived settlers and among the mountains, the water supply was secured for the construction of a ranch.

The settlement grew in the same year by another comers. A count from the end of the year already yielded 29 inhabitants. 1852, the first survey of the land and the settlement took place, which was called in the early days of Upper Dry Creek, Lone City and Mountainville before it was collected in January 1855 under its present name to the city. 1857 already lived 40 families in Alpine. In 1900 there were about 500 inhabitants. The number stagnated until the 1950s at this level before increasing to 1960 to over 900 in 1600 and 1975 reached.

Situation

Since the 1970s, the city was transformed from an agricultural town to a commuter community whose residents work in the economic centers of the region. The population has since grown rapidly. The attractive location of Alpine directly to the mountains above the valley drew particular to wealthy inhabitants, so that the median income for a household in Alpine is 76,000 dollars a year, well above the average of Utah Country of $ 56,000 / year. The inhabitants of Alpine also like that of all Utah higher than average formal education, the city with 43.8 % of the population still far beyond here with college degree above the average of the Counties of 34.7 %. 42.6 % of the working population of Alpine stated in a leadership position or an academic career ( "Management, professional, and related occupations " ) to work. Remarkably, the proportion of 96.7% of single-family homes of which almost 60 % were built after 1990 ( from 2000 ).