Ward 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.
Ward Spring, a tepid spring in Tulare County, sits about twelve miles from East Porterville, off Cow Mountain Road. The water is around seventy degrees, barely warm to the touch. Owner and access are not on record. There is no photo and no chemistry, so this is a point on a map with a temperature attached.
Foothills around 2,000 feet, with a moderate snow load in winter, around 35 inches, and dry the rest of the year. Cow Mountain Road passes within about sixty feet. No land manager listed. North Tule Campground is seven miles away, the only camp tied to this record.
the record says winter, though the snow here can get in the way. Roadside off Cow Mountain Road. Camp at North Tule. No fee recorded, and nothing under owner or access. Barely warm water, so nobody is driving out here for a soak. With no chemistry and no photo on file, the temperature is the only thing the record can vouch for.
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 Ward Spring.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 423 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 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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