Alpine County
POPULATION: 1,141
INCORPORATION DATE: 1864
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:
- District 1 – Donald M. Jardine
- District 2 – Ron Hames
- District 3 – Kathrin Rakow
- District 4 – Terry Woodrow
- District 5 – David Griffith
FORM OF
GOVERNMENT: General Law
ALPINE. County seat, Markleeville. Created March 16, 1864. It derived its name from the English word alpine meaning “of, pertaining to, or connected with, the Alps.” Its geographical position, lying as it does on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountains, makes it particularly an alpine county, and hence its name.