Hot Spring On Seguam Island
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
A hot spring on Seguam Island, barely a hundred feet above sea level in the Aleutians West Census Area. The record gives no owner for the land and no access status. Dutch Harbor, a hundred-odd miles away, is the nearest town. Heat is recorded only as a category. The closest road is seventy-five miles off, and nothing on file describes a pool or structure.
No land unit is attached to this spring, so who manages the ground is not on record. Backcountry access, with the nearest road far off and unnamed. The spring sits low. Climate averages in the low forties. Nearly six feet of snow a year and plenty of rain.
The record is thin. Access status and land owner are both missing, so there is no obvious office to ask. Season guidance is absent too, and nothing about camping or fees. With no temperature reading, assume nothing about soaking. A lot of Aleutian ground from the last road, and the record carries no hint of how to cross it.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the southwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 287 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.