Bennett Springs
Bennett Springs lies about twelve miles from Pioche, Lincoln County, Nevada. The water is barely warm, the low end of what anyone calls thermal. Nobody would call it soaking water. It has a USGS site record and a water analysis from 1985 showing neutral pH with some iron. Ownership and public access are both missing from the file.
Sixty-some feet from a road, so you will not be hiking. The elevation is moderate for eastern Nevada, high enough that nineteen inches of snow fall in a typical season. The climate is dry otherwise. No land unit is named, and no designation. Who manages the ground is unanswered.
The season on record is winter, though with that snowfall the road could be the deciding factor. Access is not on file; find out before you stop. Cooler than your skin, so this is a spring to look at more than sit in. No camping or fee is listed. The chemistry is from 1985, and the entry includes a photo.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 82 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 69% 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 Bennett Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.5).
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