Fish 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.
In Washoe County, Nevada, twenty-nine miles from Cold Springs, Fish Springs is a barely warm spring with no landowner or access status on record. The temperature is low seventies, warm to the hand and that is about all. USGS has it on its thermal list.
The road, missing a name on file, is close to three hundred feet away. A hair under four thousand feet, with about thirty-three inches of snow over a winter and fourteen inches of precipitation, on the wetter side for Nevada.
Winter months are listed. Drive-up, no walking. Nothing here will burn you. The closest campground on file is Big Cove in Plumas National Forest over the California line, about twenty-one miles away. Who owns the spring and if you can visit are both unknown.
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 Fish Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 66 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 66% 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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