Barker 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.
Barker Spring is a tepid spring in Upson County, Georgia, about six miles from Hannahs Mill and a short way off Crest Highway. The water is a little above room temperature, far from a hot soak. No owner or access status is recorded. Chemistry is absent from the record too.
Roadside, about a hundred yards from Crest Highway. Low country, under eight hundred feet. Snow is essentially nil and the year is wet, with a mild annual average. No campground is listed.
The record flags December through February as best, though tepid water is tepid in any month. Roadside access. A USGS site number is attached. No chemistry or fee is recorded. Confirm access before you visit.
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 Barker Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 49 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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 0% 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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