Hot Springs
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Hot Springs is the whole name. Seven miles from Battle Mountain in Lander County, on Bureau of Reclamation land, the water is hot, too hot for an easy soak. Public access is unknown even though the owner is federal. The land unit is listed as USBR and the designation as FOTH. The record has no second name for it.
Roughly 500 feet of walking from an unnamed road. Mid elevation basin land, dry, light snow in winter. Battle Mountain is close by road. Bureau of Reclamation ground. No chemistry and no USGS site. No campground. No photo either, and no second name from OpenStreetMap. Nothing says the road is kept open in winter.
Winter is what the record lists for season. The water can burn; go carefully. Access is unknown on Reclamation land, so ask the bureau or look for signs. No fee recorded. The spring has no USGS site number, so the temperature source is not stated.
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 Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 41 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, 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 34% 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.