Davis Soda 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.
Davis Soda Spring sits on the edge of Clearlake in Lake County, under three miles from town. Soda springs are usually carbonated mineral waters, and the temperature on file for this one is tepid, cool side of warm. Who owns the ground is unrecorded, and so is whether the public may visit.
A short walk is all it takes, a few hundred feet from the nearest road, though that road has no name in the record. The spring lies in the low hills around Clear Lake at modest elevation. Winters bring a little snow, a few inches across a year, and rainfall is moderate at about two feet. With ownership blank on file, you could be standing on private property when you arrive.
Winter months, December through February, are the ones the record points to. Before you go, find out who holds the land and whether access is allowed; the record has nothing on either. The nearest listed campground is Little Stony, about twenty miles off. There is no water chemistry on record despite the soda name, and no fee information.
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 Davis Soda Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the north.
- Highest ground nearby
- 386 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about 3 times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 99% 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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Overview This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site.Once on-site, you are able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature.In order to utilize Scan & Pay on site, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote area...
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