Kellog Hot Springs
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Kellog Hot Springs is in Modoc County thirty-five miles from Alturas, off Susanville Road, and the water is far too hot to touch. No landowner is on file, and access status is missing as well. That is about everything the record holds, beyond climate figures and a temperature that rules out any soaking at the source.
Five hundred feet or so from Susanville Road, a short walk. The elevation is a touch under forty-two hundred feet. Close to four feet of snow comes each winter, within a yearly precipitation total near twenty inches. No campground is listed anywhere near it, and thirty-five miles is a long way from the nearest town on file.
The calendar on file says winter. Keep clear of the water, which scalds. Owner unknown, access unknown, so you could be on private land without knowing it. Nothing on file about fees or chemistry. No photograph either.
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 Kellog Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 29 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 15% 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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