Chillis 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.
Chillis Hot Spring comes in a shade above body heat, soaking warm, in Lander County, Nevada, thirty-odd miles from Battle Mountain. Who owns it and if the public may visit are not on record. There is a USGS site entry and no chemistry. That is the sum of what the file knows about it, along with a position and a short approach.
You walk in from the road, a little over three hundred yards. Moderate elevation. Winter snowfall comes to two and a half feet most years. Summers are dry. No land unit or designation is given, and the spring goes undescribed, so there is no telling from the file if there is a pool or a seep at the end of the walk.
The file gives December through February as the best months, and snow on the road is likely then. The temperature is comfortable and you can stay in as long as you like. Access is unknown; find the landowner first. No fee is listed and no campground, and the water has not been sampled.
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 Chillis Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 316 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 65% 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.