Shoshone Spring
A roadside warm spring about five miles from Pahrump, Shoshone Spring is placed by the record in Nye County. The water sits right at the bottom edge of soaking temperature, bath-warm on a cold day. The road is under eighty feet off. There is no owner on file and no access status, and the USGS tracks it as a monitoring site.
Dry desert valley, no snow, a few inches of rain a year at most. The road beside it has no recorded name. No land unit or manager is listed. With the USGS keeping a site record here, the spring has been measured at some point, though no sample date or chemistry made it into this listing.
The cold months are best here; there is nothing on record to recommend summer in this part of the desert. No campground is on file. The temperature is comfortable and safe. Nobody has recorded who owns it or who may enter, so the sensible move is to confirm you are allowed before you pull over.
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 Shoshone 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.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 300 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 61% 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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