Trout Creek 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.
Trout Creek Spring runs warm in Mohave County, a long way from anything the record names, thirty-three miles from Peach Springs. The water comes out in the low eighties, pleasant to the touch without being a soak. Nearly a mile of walking separates it from the nearest road. The record is thin: ownership and access are both blank, and no campground is on record.
Close to a mile from the road, which the record does not name, at a bit under five thousand feet. Fifteen inches or so of snow falls in a winter here, and the year is on the dry side. That is all the setting the record supports; no land unit and no designation are recorded, so the character of the ground is anyone's guess. No USGS site number is attached to this one either.
The cold months rate best. Plan for a walk of close to a mile each way. Nothing is on record about ownership or access, and no fee is listed, so find out who controls the land before you go; the remoteness means you will not want to meet a locked gate after a long drive.
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 Trout Creek Spring.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 312 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
A slice through the ground from north to south, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 57% 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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