Loope (formerly, Loopeville and Monitor) is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Alpine County, California
Alpine County is a county in the eastern part of the U.S. state of California located within the Sierra Nevada on the state border with Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,204, making it California's least populous county. T ...
. It is located on
Monitor Creek,
at an elevation of 6188 feet (1886 m).
A post office operated at Monitor from 1863 to 1888.
The Loope post office operated from 1898 to 1908.
The place was originally named from the nearby Monitor Mine, which in turn was named for the Civil War naval vessel.
It was renamed in honor of a Dr. Loope who resurrected the mining industry locally with the influx of investments from the east coast.
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Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Alpine County, California
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