Alpine, Texas Alpine, Texas City of Alpine and County Seat of Brewster County, State of Texas, United States (April 2004).jpg Nickname(s): The Heart of Big Bend, The Mile-High City Location in the state of Texas Location in the state of Texas State Texas Alpine is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Brewster County, Texas, United States. The populace was 5,905 at the 2010 census. The town has an altitude of 4,475 feet, and the encircling mountain peaks are over a mile high.
The university, hospital, library, and retail make Alpine the center of the widespread (12,000 square miles) but wide open Big Bend region (combined populace only 12,500) including Brewster, Presidio, and Jeff Davis counties.
11.1 Attractions in and close to Alpine The town's name was changed to Alpine on February 3, 1888, following a petition by its residents.
Alpine interval very slowly until Sul Ross State Normal College (now Sul Ross State University) was opened in 1920.
The evolution of Big Bend National Park in the 1930s and 40s spurred further growth.
The 1950 census reported Alpine's populace at 5,256, and a high of approximately 6,200 was reached by 1976.
The town was always small enough that no one insisted on tearing down old buildings to make parking lots, and it is still too small to interest big box store chains.
Alpine is positioned on U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.7 square miles (12.1 km2), all land. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Alpine has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated BSk on climate maps. Climate data for Alpine, Texas (Mar 1, 1900 Mar 31, 2013) Sul Ross State University, began as a teachers college in 1920, with its initial campus in Alpine.
Named for Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Texas' 19th governor and later president of the new territory grant college which became Texas A&M, it is now a member of the Texas State University System.
The NIRA rodeo hosted in Alpine is a big event for the school and the community. Alpine Independent School District serves more than 1,000 small-town students attending Alpine Elementary School, Alpine Middle School, and Alpine High School, in classes from Pre-K, Kinder, and 1st thru 12th grades. On the Texas Education Agency Report card for 2013-2014, the high school, with 277 students in grades 9-12, reached "Met Standard" overall, while receiving Distinction Designations in Mathematics, Social Studies, Top 25% Closing Performance gaps, and Postsecondary Readiness.
Notably, average class sizes in Alpine High are only about two-thirds the state average. The Middle School, with 309 students in grades 5-8, also reached "Met Standard", while receiving Distinction Designations in Mathematics and Social Studies. The high school is home to the Alpine Fightin' Bucks and Lady Bucks.
Alpine hosts the Big Bend Mountain Ramble, a "mile-high cross nation meet, the highest race in Texas", as well as high school and junior high relays.
Alpine Montessori School is a private, non-sectarian, non-profit school which serves grades pre-K through 6th.
Alpine Christian School is a non-denominational Christian school serving grades pre-K through 12.
The Museum of the Big Bend on the Sul Ross ground uses world-class exhibits of Native American artifacts, cultural history, geology, paleontology, and Western art to introduce the visitor to the Big Bend region.
Subjects include the area's Indian tribes, the Buffalo soldiers, the quarrying era, the stagecoach, the barns , and the history of Big bend National Park.
The Alpine Public Library opened a large and undivided facility in February, 2011, offering computer use with no-charge Wi-Fi and access to online data, as well as traditional books, magazines and other periodicals, CDs and DVDs.
Begun by volunteers in 1947, the Alpine Public Library remains an autonomous entity with its own Board of Directors, though it is well-supported by the taxpayers of Brewster County and the City of Alpine. The improve institution has a experienced staff of nine, but much of the work is still done by volunteers.
Big Bend Regional Medical Center is a 25-bed facility in a undivided building.
Alpine is home to the Alpine Cowboys autonomous baseball team. A member of the Pecos League, the Cowboys play their home games at the historic and world-famous Kokernot Field.
Alpine makes a central base for seeking region attractions: the Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Fort Davis National Historic Site, Davis Mountains State Park with its Indian Lodge, the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and Botanical Gardens, and the Mc - Donald Observatory, perched up on Mt Locke at 6,790 feet.
Also worth visiting are Marathon with its iconic Gage Hotel; the historic hotel Limpia and B&B's of Fort Davis; Marfa with the Chinati Foundation exhibition of Minimalist Art; the ghost town of Terlingua and the golf resort of Lajitas; and the River Road, FM 170, a 120-mile scenic route thru the majestic Rio Grande valley between Presidio and the Big Bend parks.
Museum of the Big Bend, fun and informative displays, a children's corner, and a t shop, on the ground of Sul Ross State University, giving background knowledge on sights in the Big Bend Region.
Alpine Country Club, next to Kokernot Field, has a prominent 9-hole golf course.
Big Bend Brewing Company, positioned along U.S.
Big Bend Gem and Mineral Show, April 17 19, the 29th annual event, at the Civic Center.
Alpine Cowboys, May 20-July 22, experienced baseball at historic Kokernot Field.
Theater of the Big Bend, June 26-July 19, 50th season features "rodeo production" of Annie Get Your Gun at the S.A.L.E.
Viva Big Bend music festival, July 23 26, more than 50 bands at venues from Marathon to Marfa, Fort Davis to Alpine.
Big Bend Ranch Rodeo, August 7 8, displays the skills of working cowboys (rather than rodeo professionals).
National Intercollegiate Rodeo, fall, Date To Be Announced, the 70th home event for Sul Ross State.
Alpine Jazz Festival, September 18 19, no-charge performances at the pavilion at the Ramada Inn.
Alpine Kite Festival, September 26, no-charge lessons, stunt demonstrations, food, music, next to Ramada Inn.
Surviving murals from the universal are found in 60 or so Texas metros/cities and towns.
On the horizon, the Twin Sisters peaks mark the location, with the town in the middle distance, including, at the behest of townspeople, the characteristic red brick buildings of the Sul Ross State campus. Frank Dobie, the famed folklorist, author of Coronado's Children and more than 25 other books, taught at Alpine High School in 1910 and 1911 in his first job after graduating from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
Allen Smith, the American humorist, author of Low Man on a Totem Pole, Rhubarb, and other bestsellers as well as thousands of journal columns and periodical articles, retired to Alpine in 1967.
Nelson Algren, novelist The Manwith the Golden Arm, wrote his first story while working at a gas station in Alpine amid the Depression (after graduating from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana).
Trackdown, the CBS Western tv series had "Alpine, Texas" as the title of its seventh episode, starring Robert Culp as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman.
In the story line, Gilman must change the false perception that has advanced among the townspeople toward the Texas Rangers. The Trackdown narrator begins: "Alpine was like a hundred other suburbs in Texas.
There is nothing unusual about this day in Alpine except that Hoby Gilman, a Texas Ranger, rode in." At the end of the episode, when Gilman succeeds in reversing the attitude of the community, the narrator concludes: Alpine is a prosperous town again, but now there's a fine air of security about it.
The citizens of Alpine feel a lot different about a lot of things now, especially Texas Rangers. In the 1971 film Big Jake, starring John Wayne, the Alpine, TX train station is the meeting place for Jacob Mc - Candles, his wife, played by Maureen O'Hara, his sons, and a dozen Texas Rangers, before setting out in pursuit of the kidnappers.
Fandango, with Kevin Costner includes Sonic Drive-In scene in Alpine in the 1985 movie.
Boyhood, the 2014 movie starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Lorelei Linklater, and Ethan Hawke, featured places in and around Alpine.
Alpine Post Office 103 N.
13th Street, Alpine, Texas 79830-9998 Cpu Sul Ross Post Office 400 N Harrison Street, Alpine, Texas 79832-9991 Amtrak's Sunset Limited long distance train stops three times a week at the Alpine station on the former Southern Pacific Railroad's Sunset Line, the nation's second transcontinental route, now part of Union Pacific.
Alpine is a crew change locale for Union Pacific freight trains, making for constant activeness along the tracks.
In the past Alpine was also served by the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway.
In recent years, Alpine has served as an unofficial stop for bicyclists riding athwart the United States due to its locale on the Adventure Cycling Association's Southern Tier Bicycle Route. Alpine Cowboys baseball team Sul Ross State University a b "State and County Quick Facts".
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Alpine at the Texas Almanac a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Alpine city, Texas".
Climate Summary for Alpine, Texas "ALPINE, TEXAS (410174), Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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