Blm Well (Frazier Hot 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.
The record calls this BLM Well, with Frazier Hot Spring in parentheses, and it is a well, on a Bureau of Land Management parcel in Minidoka County, Idaho, out past Heyburn by close to thirty-seven miles. The water comes up effectively boiling. Open public land, roadside. A pH sample from 1977 puts the water on the alkaline side.
A hundred and fifty feet or so from a road that carries no name in the record, at around forty-nine hundred feet. Dry country with about fifteen inches of precipitation and under three feet of snow. Average near fifty. Clear Creek Campground is eleven miles away, the nearest camping on file. The Burley Field Office manages it.
Nothing here is for soaking. The water will scald instantly, and the record describes no cooled pool anywhere near it. Winter is the season the record prefers. Roadside. No fee. Keep back from the wellhead. Access is open and the land is public.
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 Blm Well (Frazier Hot Spring).
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 53 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 2½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 93% 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.
The water at Blm Well (Frazier Hot Spring) is alkaline (pH 9.2).
Clear Creek Campground is a non-fee campground and picnic area composed of 12 individual units and reservations are not required. This area is accessible for a season that varies usually between June through October. Campground amenities include toilets and the campground is well suited for tent and RV camping. Sites are handicapped accessible. Bull Flat (#001) and Lake Fork (#004) trails are popular with horseback riders, and hikers.
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