Hot Springs Ranch 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 Ranch Springs carries a name that promises more heat than the water delivers. It comes up tepid, under eighty degrees, the kind of warm you notice in January and miss entirely in July. The site is in Lander County, a thirty-mile run out of Battle Mountain, and is catalogued by the USGS. Who owns the land is not on record.
The springs lie a few hundred feet beyond a road that appears on file without a name. Elevation is moderate for Nevada, well below the five-thousand-foot mark, and the weather is dry, with light snow, less than two feet in an average winter.
The best months on record are the cold ones, December through February, though water this tepid will feel cool once the air drops below freezing. Access is a short walk, easy in most conditions. Nothing on file covers ownership, fees, camping, or public permission. The temperature is a survey value; expect variation.
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 Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 14 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 35% 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.