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Alpine is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in northwestern Clark County, Arkansas, located about twenty-two miles northwest of the county seat, Arkadelphia, and roughly eight miles east of Amity.

Alpine is one of the oldest settlements in Clark County: its first settlers, William Glover and his family, arrived in 1848, followed by several other families.

It is most commonly thought that Alpine received its name because of its location on the highest point of the county, though several folktales also relay the origin of the name.

The original settlement was located a mile east of the present community and comprised little more than a post office, a general store, a saloon, and a few houses.

Alpine's post office opened in 1849 and was moved several times, never more than a mile from its original location; it was discontinued after the Civil War, reestablished in 1869, discontinued again in 1870, and reopened in 1878, and mail was eventually rerouted to Amity, leaving Alpine with a contract postal unit in the corner of a convenience store where customers can rent a post office box but there are no mail routes.

According to Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas, by 1890 Alpine had about fifty inhabitants and boasted a post office, a general store, a hotel, a church and school house combined, and a blacksmith and wood shop.

At one time Alpine had three Baptist churches — Missionary Baptist, Primitive Baptist, and Union Baptist — and in 1942 it was reported that a tabernacle available for use by any group had been built in the community.

Alpine's first school was operated in a church building; the Alpine school was consolidated with the Amity school in 1929 but operated as a separate school until 1957–58, and the Works Progress Administration built a new school building in the community in 1940.

Alpine is best known as the childhood home of noted actor and director Billy Bob Thornton.

The Census Bureau first listed Alpine as a CDP in the 2020 census, which counted 134 residents, of whom 131 were white alone.