Thomas Flats 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.
Thomas Flats Warm Spring is a tepid spring, mid seventies, on BLM ground in Owyhee County about eleven miles from Murphy. The Four Rivers Field Office manages it and access is open. Figure on about 500 yards of walking from the road. The water is too cool for a hot soak. The USGS numbered the spring as a site but logged no chemistry.
Desert floor at around 2,400 feet, and very dry: eleven inches of snow and nine of precipitation in an average year, with the thermometer averaging upper fifties. The Bureau of Land Management holds the ground, and it is open to the public. The walk in is short and there is no road name recorded. No designation beyond public BLM.
Winter gets the nod as best season, and in this climate winters are mild. Silver City Campground is the nearest camping at about 22 miles. No water chemistry is recorded and the temperature has no sample date. No fee is noted. At that temperature the water is lukewarm. The access class is short walk.
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 Thomas Flats Warm Spring.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 276 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, 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 20% 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.
This small campground is located in a partially restored 19th-century mining town. Please plan to bring your own water. Don't use the water running through the campground from Jordan Creek because it may contain mercury from prior mining activity in the area.
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