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.
Eureka County, Nevada, holds this Fish Springs, fifty-four miles out from Eureka and up around 6,700 feet. Warm is the only description it carries, and no one ever took a temperature. No owner appears anywhere in the record, and public access is unknown.
Eighty-some feet from an unnamed road. High basin, cold in winter, with snow totals over three feet. Ten inches of precipitation in an average year.
No season is recorded as best, and the temperature is missing too. Treat the chemistry with suspicion as well; the only sample is from 1967, near neutral with low dissolved solids. Roadside stop. Check who owns the land before you get out of the truck. 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 Fish Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 85 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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 12% 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.
The water at Fish Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.6) with 231 mg/L total dissolved solids.
Fish Springs sits at 6,678 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 27% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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