Hot Springs Ranch
Hot Springs Ranch lies in Lander County, thirty-odd miles out of Battle Mountain. Its water is hot, the kind you would have to cool before getting in. Owner and access: nothing on file. The record carries a photo and a 1974 water sample. It is a short walk in from the road.
Five hundred feet or so off an unnamed road, in dry basin country at mid elevation, with a couple feet of snow through winter. The 1974 sample came back mildly alkaline. No campground listed. No land unit is named and no owner, and beyond the name, the USGS number is the one hard identifier.
Midwinter again for the season. The water hurts on contact. Ease into any touch. Access is unrecorded; confirm with whoever owns the ground. The chemistry has not been updated since 1974. The closest town is Battle Mountain. The photo on file gives you something to match when you arrive.
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 Ranch.
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 23 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
A slice through the ground from south to north, 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 42% 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 Ranch is slightly alkaline (pH 8.0).
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