Cassadore Spring
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Cassadore Spring, about twelve miles out of San Carlos town, sits inside Gila County, Arizona, on San Carlos Reservation land. Tepid water, low seventies. No one has written down if visitors are allowed, and on reservation ground that means assuming you need permission until told otherwise. No water sample, no USGS number.
A few dozen feet from Indian Route 1100; roadside. Upland country with a mild yearly average, modest rain and a little snow. The land unit is the San Carlos Reservation and the designation is tribal. Timber Camp Recreation Area is the closest listed campground, roughly sixteen miles away.
The file says winter. Everything about going depends on the reservation: access is unknown and there is no public-land status to fall back on. Contact the tribal authorities before driving out. The temperature is too low for soaking in any case. No fee is listed.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 299 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 14% of the springs on this site.
Heat flow measures the warmth working its way up through the ground from deep inside the earth. Where it runs high, rain and snowmelt that seep down through cracks in the rock come back up hot.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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