Brooks 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.
Twenty-three miles from Battle Mountain, on public land in Lander County, Nevada, Brooks Spring runs a little under body temperature, comfortable on a warm day and cool-feeling on a cold one. BLM manages the parcel out of the Humboldt River Field Office and the public may use it. The USGS lists it among its thermal sites and has never published chemistry for it.
About a hundred thirty feet off the road. Mid-elevation basin country, dry summers, winters with close to two feet of snow. The land is unadorned BLM, no wilderness or monument overlay. The file says nothing about where the water ends up, so picture nothing until you see it.
The listed season is winter. At this temperature the water is safe for anyone and long soaks are fine. Access is open. The road is close. No campground or fee is in the record. Nothing has been sampled, so what is in the water is unknown, and the temperature itself carries no date.
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 Brooks Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 42 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
A slice through the ground from north to south, 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 64% 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.