Fish Lake Valley Hot Well
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Fish Lake Valley Hot Well is a geothermal hot well filed under Inyo County, California. Wikipedia calls it a Nevada spring, and the land manager on file is the BLM's Tonopah Field Office. Access is open. The record carries no temperature. The nearest listed town, Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, is forty miles away.
Roadside, within a hundred feet, though the road is unnamed on file. High desert at around 4,700 feet, dry, seven inches of rain most years and a foot and a half of snow. No campground is listed anywhere near it.
With no temperature recorded, nothing on this page tells you whether it is soakable; it is a hot well, and the name says hot, so go find out. Access is open on BLM land. No best months or fee are on record, and no campground is listed. The nearest listed town is forty miles off, so fuel and water are on you.
Wikipedia also calls it Fish Lake Hot Well and Fish Lake Hot Spring, and describes it as a geothermal hot spring in Nevada. The record lists it in Inyo County, California, so which state it belongs to depends on whom you ask.
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 Fish Lake Valley Hot Well.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 57 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 40% 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.
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