Dixie Comstock Mine
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Dixie Comstock Mine is the name on file for a thermal point on BLM land in Pershing County, Nevada, about thirty-three miles from Lovelock. The record holds no measured temperature, only a tag of hot. Access is open. Management falls to the Stillwater Field Office.
Less than two hundred feet separate it from the road, which has no name on record. Low basin country, around 3,500 feet, and dry, eight inches a year of precipitation, and winter snow totals a bit over a foot. Public BLM land with open access.
Best months are not recorded. Without a temperature on file, do not plan on soaking; treat it as a place to look at until someone measures it. Open BLM access. Camping is not on file for the area.
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 Dixie Comstock Mine.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 615 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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 30% 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.