Gamble 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.
Gamble Spring is barely warm, sixty-nine degrees on record, a spring along Wilkins-Montello Road in Elko County, Nevada, forty-four miles from West Wendover. It is thermal in the technical sense and no more. Owner and access status are not recorded. A USGS site number is attached to it.
About a hundred and sixty feet from Wilkins-Montello Road, roadside in the plainest sense. Elevation right around five thousand feet. Winters bring two feet of snow, give or take, and the year's precipitation is eleven inches.
On record as best: the dead of winter, December into February. Cool water, no hazard. No water chemistry is on file, so nothing to say about minerals. Nothing on file either about who owns it or if you can visit. No campground listed.
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 Gamble Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 47 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 26% 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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