Coyote 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.
Coyote Spring runs barely warm on BLM land in Pershing County, about fifty-four miles from Lovelock, with open access. Low seventies on record, which is cool for sitting in and fine for a hand or a dog. The Black Rock Field Office holds the ground. No chemistry or second name is attached to the record.
A tenth of a mile separates it from the road, no road name given. Shy of four thousand feet in dry Black Rock desert, eight inches of yearly precipitation and about fourteen inches of snow. There is a USGS site entry for it.
Cold months are the record's pick. No heat hazard at this temperature. Open ground, free as far as the record knows, and no campground listed. The figure on file came from a field survey; the spring may feel cooler or warmer on the day.
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 Coyote Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 6 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 18% 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.