Blue Eagle Springs
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Blue Eagle Springs are warm springs in White Pine County, a long sixty miles from Ely. Tepid water, warm on the skin and well short of a hot soak. The USGS sampled it in 1981. Owner and access status are both absent from the record, and that gap matters more than the temperature does.
Roadside. The springs are a couple of hundred feet from a road that is unnamed on file. They sit below five thousand feet in eastern Nevada basin country, with six inches of annual precipitation, which is arid by any measure, and a modest sixteen inches or so of snow across a winter.
The cold months score best on the record, which for tepid water is a matter of contrast with the air. Owner and access are both unknown; the ground could be private, so get permission sorted before you go in. The 1981 sample is the only chemistry on file, near-neutral pH.
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 Blue Eagle Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 82 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 23% 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.
The water at Blue Eagle Springs is neutral (pH 6.9).