Davis Ranch Spring
Davis Ranch Spring is one of the warm springs inside Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, in Nye County, Nevada, with Pahrump the closest town at about 22 miles. The water is tepid. You would feel it was warm with a hand in it and little else. Access is on record as restricted, and on a refuge that usually means the spring is protected habitat first. Do not plan on getting in.
Spring Meadows Road passes within about a third of a mile, and the final stretch is on foot. This is low desert, managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the refuge. Rain hardly registers over a year and snow almost never falls here. The yearly average temperature reads mild, and the months listed as best are the winter ones.
Go between December and February. Before you go, check the refuge rules, since restricted access can mean a fence or a closed path. Nothing about a fee or a campground is recorded. The temperature comes from a USGS reading, so take it as one day's measurement.
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 Davis Ranch 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.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 26 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 41% 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.
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