Hot Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
This Hot Springs in Churchill County is sixty-six miles from Fallon and near two hundred degrees at the source, which is well into scalding. Roadside, within three hundred feet of an unnamed road. An August 1983 sample came back alkaline with iron among the analytes. Owner and access are unrecorded. No photo.
A bit over six thousand feet, high country, and it shows in the winter: roughly forty-four inches of snow and close to a foot of precipitation. The road is unnamed and the walk from it is a few hundred feet. The source itself goes undescribed, as does any pool, and the average temperature over a year is around fifty.
Water this hot will burn you before you can pull back; keep clear of the source. The record's window is December through February, and at this elevation that means snow, so the road may not be passable. No one is named as owner and permission is therefore unsettled. The record is silent on fees and camping. The 1983 chemistry is old.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 13 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
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 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.
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 Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 8.3).
Hot Springs sits at 6,060 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 24% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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