Alplaus is in the Town of Glenville.

Occasionally might assume it a portion of the hamlet of East Glenville; however, these are typically seen to become the separate community. For the 2000 census, Alplaus is part of the East Glenville census-designated place.

Nosecount information for the ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) associated with Alplaus for the 2000 census had the sum humans of 431 people around 175 family.

Geography
Since Alplaus around non an incorporated front yard, its borders are non specific. A few could assume a ZIP Code 12008 to define Alplaus, while others will say these are a Alplaus volunteer fire deparment (officially called Glenville Fire District #2).

Alplaus is placed at . It has an elevation of about 210 feet /64 m at a Mohawk flow of any stream.

Rexford, New York, a hamlet of Clifton Park in Saratoga County, New York borders Alplaus to the East. A Mohawk River borders on the south. Usually, a Glenridge & Schenectady United states Airport is a american boarder.

A major natural feature of the hamlet is the Alplaus Wipe out (creek), which occurs as confluent to the Mohawk Flow of any stream.

Government
A local government is the town of Glenville. Residents of Alplaus come breathe to vote for the Board of Commissioners for Glenville Fire District #2.

Alplaus is a portion of the Niskayuna school territory.

Airports
A Schenectady United states Airport (FAA code KSCH) lies partially in Alplaus. A Stratton Air National Guard Base is located on this drome. A 109th Airlift Wing, depending at Stratton, supports arctic & south-polar operations utilizing C-130 aircraft.

A Wells Seaplane Base (FAA id 94D) is placed at a Mohawk Marina touching a mouth of the Alplaus Defeat.

History
114 Frenchmen & 96 Sault & Algonquin Indians encamped at a mouth of Alplaus Destroy, before a Schenectady Massacre February 8, 1690

From either 1902 to 1941, the "longest trolley bridge in the world" crossed a Mohawk flow of any stream at Alplaus. A streetcar brought visitant from either Schenectady to the fairgrounds within Rexford.

A Alplaus United Methodist Church was organized in 1914.

A Alplaus fire department was founded within 1930.

In the period of World War II, the General Electric Company tested jet engines and electronic surveillance devices at a Schenectady County Airport.