Davis Ranch Springs
Davis Ranch Springs is a warm spring inside Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Nye County, Nevada, roughly twenty miles out of Pahrump. The record marks public access as restricted. The refuge is federal, run by Fish and Wildlife. Temperature on record is tepid, bath-warm at most.
Ash Meadows Road runs right past, fifteen feet or so from the spring. This is low desert, barely over two thousand feet, with about four inches of rain annually and snow that amounts to nearly nothing. The annual average temperature sits in the high sixties. Refuge land, federally managed.
The recommended window is midwinter, December through February. Access is restricted; check with the refuge before visiting and expect rules about where you can stand. The spring is warm, no heat danger. You can drive to it. No campground on file.
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 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.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 11 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 43% 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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