Jack Rabbit Spring
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Jack Rabbit Spring is another Ash Meadows spring, on the federal refuge in Nye County, with Pahrump about 19 miles away. The water is warm, short of a soaking temperature. Access is restricted. This is habitat on a federal refuge under Fish and Wildlife management, and the spring is there for the wildlife the refuge protects.
Thirty feet from the roadside, give or take. The desert here is low and very dry, with almost no snow and a mild average temperature through the year. The land is a National Wildlife Refuge. No chemistry or campground is recorded, no second name and no picture. There is a USGS site. The road in is not named in the record.
The refuge's listed months are the three winter ones. Restricted access: check refuge rules, expect fences or closures. No fee listed. The water is warm and safe to touch. Getting in is a question for the refuge. USGS measured the temperature.
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 Jack Rabbit Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 6 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 45% 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.
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