Big Chalybeate Spring
Big Chalybeate Spring rises in Garland County, Arkansas, inside the town of Hot Springs National Park itself. The water comes out tepid, below body temperature, so it is a spring you visit to see. It has a USGS site record and a 1972 chemistry sample showing low dissolved solids and a neutral pH. Public access and land ownership are not in the record.
Roadside. The file puts it about 140 feet from the nearest road, so there is no walk to speak of. Elevation is low. The climate is mild and wet, with a lot of rain and hardly any snow. The file lists Brady Mountain for camping, some fourteen miles off.
Best months in the file are December through February. There is no access status, so assume nothing about walking up to it; it is in town, and town rules apply. No fee is listed. There is a photo in the record.
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 Big Chalybeate 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.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 235 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
The water at Big Chalybeate Spring is neutral (pH 7.2) with 196 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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