Eagle Salt Works 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.
Eagle Salt Works Spring is a USGS thermal point in Lyon County, about 14 miles from Fernley, and little more than that on paper. The record calls it hot with no number behind the word, and there is no owner, no access status and no road name attached. What you have is a name and a location. Everything else, including how badly the water would burn you, is unmeasured.
A short walk of some five hundred yards separates it from the nearest road, which the record does not name. This is dry basin country at a middling height. Winter snow is light and the year as a whole gets little rain. Nothing is on file about the ground it sits on, and no photo has been attached.
No best months are listed. The temperature was never recorded as a figure, and hot in a USGS table can mean anything above warm, so approach the source as if it could burn you. Access is not on record. Find out who owns the land before you walk in.
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 Eagle Salt Works Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 4 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about 2½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 96% 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.
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