Hiko Spring
Hiko Spring is warm water in Lincoln County, about 15 miles from Alamo. The temperature sits at the low end of soaking warm, about a cool bath, which for a desert spring is a comfortable place to be. The record gives a USGS site and nothing about who controls the ground or if the public is welcome.
The road ends a tenth of a mile short of the water. Low desert, with a mild average through the year, little snow and not much rain. The nearest road is unnamed in the record, and no land unit or campground is recorded, and no owner either. A photo exists in the record.
Winter is listed as the time to go. With access unrecorded, look for signs and fences before walking in. The temperature is from a USGS survey and was taken on one day. No fee or camping is listed. Plan on the water being warm, a soak-temperature spring only on a hot day.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 442 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 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.
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