Unnamed Thermal Spring
This unnamed thermal point is on BLM land managed from Kingman, about thirteen miles outside the town in Mohave County. The water is tepid. It is open public land, and the spring lies a couple hundred yards off Blake Ranch Road. The record has a photo of it, which is more than most unnamed springs get.
This one is up high, above five thousand feet, in country that gets ten inches of snow and twelve of rain. Blake Ranch Road is the approach and the walk from it is short. Public land, Kingman Field Office, with no fee recorded. Wild Cow Springs Campground lies under five miles away, and there is no designation on the ground beyond public.
Cold months are the ones on file as best. Open access, short walk. Wild Cow Springs is close enough to make a base. The reading on file is tepid, so a soak is off the table. Nothing on the chemistry, and no USGS listing.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 190 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
A slice through the ground from west to east, 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 55% 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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Wild Cow Springs Campground is situated in a grove of oak and large ponderosa pines within the Hualapai Mountains, at an elevation of 6,200 ft. This site becomes especially attractive during the summer months, with temperatures here averaging 20 degrees cooler than the nearby desert valleys located over 3,000 feet below. The site has an accessible campsite and vault toilet and most camping and picnic areas have fire rings, grills, trash cans, and picnic tables.All sites are filled on a firs...
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