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.
A cluster of springs beside Death Valley Road, a few miles from Pahrump in Nye County, on BLM land out of the Barstow Field Office. Access is open. There is no temperature reading on file, and the record makes no claim about the water being warm enough to sit in.
Roadside, about two hundred feet off Death Valley Road. Low desert, around 1,350 feet, with four inches of rain in a year and a mean temperature in the low seventies, which points to hot summers. Snow is all but nonexistent.
Nobody rated the months here. Given how dry and warm it runs, the cooler half of the year picks itself. No campground and no fee turn up. The USGS knows it by a site number, nothing more. Questions about rules go to the Barstow Field Office. With no temperature recorded, treat this as something to look at. A soak is not a safe bet.
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 Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 91 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
A slice through the ground from west to east, 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 55% 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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