Mineral Springs
The record calls it Mineral Springs and places it a mile and a half from East Foothills in Santa Clara County, with a photo attached. The water is tepid, well short of a bath. No owner is logged and no access status either, and there is no campground in the record. The name is generic and the record is sparse.
About two tenths of a mile from the nearest road on foot, road unnamed. It sits a bit over a thousand feet up. Rain is moderate and snow is close to nonexistent. The land unit is blank. So is the owner, so nothing places this on public ground, and the short walk could cross anything.
December through February rank best, and snow will not stop you in any month. The water will not burn. It is cool enough to want sun on your back. Access is unrecorded; this near a town, treat it as private ground unless you find out otherwise. No chemistry is on file.
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 Mineral 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.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 614 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 54% 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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