Soda Spring
Soda Spring is in Tulare County about ten miles out of East Porterville and a few steps from Bridge Drive. The water runs lukewarm. The name hints at carbonated water, though no chemistry sample is recorded to back that up. Access and ownership are blank. East Porterville is the nearest town the file gives.
Foothill ground under a thousand feet, roadside on Bridge Drive. Dry and warm most of the year, with winter rain and a trace of snow. North Tule Campground, six miles off, is the nearest in the file. The record does not attach a land unit or describe the outlet, and the road is the firmest thing it gives you.
The file points to winter. With the water only tepid, think of it as a stop along the road. Nobody has documented access; look for signs. North Tule is the camping, roughly six miles. No fee is listed. Bridge Drive is the landmark to navigate by, since nothing else about the spot is described.
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 Soda 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
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 115 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 5% 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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