El Dorado Hot Spring
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
El Dorado Hot Spring lies about 18 miles from Buckeye in Maricopa County, Arizona. The record has a name and a road, and little beyond that. No temperature is recorded. Nor is there an owner on file, or any word on access. OpenStreetMap carries the same name for the spot, which is the only outside confirmation it exists.
Roadside along West Indian School Road, under two hundred feet off it. Low desert, hot yearly averages, about seven inches of rain, zero snow. No campground is listed in the file. Neither a land unit nor a designation is recorded.
No season is listed, and the climate row points to winter. Before going, establish who holds the land and if you may approach it; the file says nothing. Nobody has measured a temperature, which leaves the word hot unsupported. There is no fee or campground in the record, and no water chemistry. Treat it as a point on a map until someone confirms more.
Aircraft with laser scanners measured this ground to within inches. The scan strips out trees and buildings, leaving the bare shape of the land around El Dorado Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 12 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 3% 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.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.