Pinches 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.
Pinches Spring is a tepid spring a couple of miles from Laytonville in Mendocino County. The temperature on record sits right at the line between cool and warm; you would notice it is warmer than a creek and not much more. There is no owner on record and nothing on access either. No road is named, so this is a map point with a question mark beside it.
It sits around two thousand feet up in some of the wettest country in the state, close to four feet of rain a year with snow in most winters. The walk from the nearest road is about a tenth of a mile, though the road is not named in the record. No land unit is attached, and nothing describes the ground or the outlet.
The best months on file are the wet ones, December into February. The spring is barely warm, so this is a curiosity more than a soak. Access is unrecorded; ask in Laytonville before you go looking. No campground appears in the file within a reasonable distance, and no fee is recorded.
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 Pinches Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 322 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 about twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 89% 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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