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.
A hot source on the Lander County basin floor, thirty-odd miles from Battle Mountain, that the USGS tracks under a numeric site ID and the map calls Hot Springs. The water is hot, well above bath temperature and short of scalding. Whose land it is, and if anyone is allowed on it, the record does not say.
The road passes within about forty feet of the source, near enough that there is hardly any walking involved. Which road that is goes unnamed. Elevation is a bit under five thousand feet, and winters pile up around thirty inches of snow in a year that otherwise sees little moisture. Nothing on file names a land unit.
Winter is the rated season, and the roadside position means you can check it from the car. Mineral chemistry on file comes from a 1974 sample showing mildly alkaline water; treat it as historical. At this temperature a scald is possible with prolonged contact, so test before touching. Access rights are unrecorded, and there is no campground or fee noted.
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
- 23 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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 44% 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 8.0).
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