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.
An unnamed thermal point about 7 or 8 miles out of Yerington in Lyon County, recorded as Hot Spring. It is labeled hot with no number given, so no temperature is known. Nothing is recorded about the land or access. The USGS did not attach a site number either, so the location itself is the most solid fact here.
A few hundred feet separate the spring from the nearest road, and the record never names that road, so count on a short walk. Basin country at middling height, dry, with two feet of snow in a typical winter. There is no water chemistry in the record and no campground, and no best season is listed either.
No best months are recorded. The word hot with no figure behind it means you approach the source as though it could scald. Access is unknown, so find the owner. With no photo and no USGS site, verify that the spring is there before planning around it.
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
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the southwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 22 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 46% 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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