Hot 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.
The record calls this one Hot Spring and nothing more. It is an unnamed thermal point in Elko County, on BLM land about 33 miles from Carlin, under the Tuscarora Field Office, with access recorded as open. The water is scalding, far past safe touch. Carlin is the nearest town.
Roadside, and the road has no name in the record; under two hundred feet separate the two. An upland basin at moderate elevation, with a dry year and snowy winters. Bureau of Land Management ground, and public. The record lists no chemistry and no campground. No second name is attached, no photo either, so the coordinates are what you navigate by.
Winter months are listed. Open public access, so no permission needed. The water scalds. Keep yourself and any animals out of it. Because the spring has no proper name, confirm the coordinates before you drive out. The temperature on file came from USGS.
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 Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the south.
- Highest ground nearby
- 472 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
A slice through the ground from north to south, 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 49% 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.