Warm Spring
Warm Spring, in Kern County, is a thermal point about four miles from Arvin. No temperature is recorded for it, so it cannot be called soakable. It is a few hundred feet from the nearest road. Owner and access are blank. A photo is attached to the record, which is the most solid thing we have on it.
Low dry ground under 900 feet with hardly any snow. A short walk, about 430 feet, from the road, and the record leaves that road unnamed. The record carries no land manager and has nothing under designation. No campground listed, and no best-months note either. Arvin is the nearest town.
No best months are listed. Short walk access. No camping listed, no fee, no access record, and no temperature, so go expecting an unknown. Check ownership first. If you do find warm water there, you will know more than the record does.
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 Warm 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 southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 423 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 40% 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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