Salt Grass 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.
Salt Grass Springs is a tepid spring off Del Puerto Canyon Road in Stanislaus County, nine miles or so from Patterson. Put a hand in and it feels warm, nothing beyond that. Owner and access are both missing from the record. No campground appears within range, and the name, with its salt grass, is the only hint the file gives about the ground.
The spring sits in dry hills at a bit over thirteen hundred feet, half a mile from Del Puerto Canyon Road. The climate is dry, a little over a foot of rain in an average year, and snow does not happen here. No land unit is named and no designation applies. The road is the one solid reference point the record gives.
The season on record is winter. Access is not documented; look for posting along Del Puerto Canyon Road and ask before you go. Expect a lukewarm bath at best, and a half mile on foot to reach it. No fee and no nearby campground appear in the record; Patterson is the closest town the file gives.
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 Salt Grass Springs.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 367 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 38% 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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