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.
Another nameless entry, this one in Eureka County, recorded only as Hot Spring, nearly 50 miles from Eureka itself. The water is hot, hotter than a soaking temperature and short of scalding. Owner and access are blank. It sits high, in country that sees real winter. A USGS site is attached. There is no photo, and no second name.
You leave the car on a road the record does not name and walk a few hundred feet. The elevation is high, the highest kind of basin country, snowy in winter, dry overall. A 1974 sample put the water slightly acidic. No campground is listed, and nobody is named as owner.
Deep winter gets the nod in the record, though at this elevation the road may not be open then; check conditions. The water can burn, so go slowly with your hand. Ownership and access are both unrecorded. Chemistry is from 1974. No fee 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 Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 37 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 23% 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 Hot Spring is slightly acidic (pH 6.7).
Hot Spring sits at 6,701 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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