Kyle 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.
Thirty-nine miles from Winnemucca in Humboldt County, Kyle Hot Springs runs scalding at the source, a hundred seventy-one degrees by the record. Both the USGS and OpenStreetMap list it under the same name, which counts for something among thermal points that often go unnamed. The record has no entry for land ownership and none for access.
The springs are roadside, under three hundred feet from an unnamed road, at a touch over forty-six hundred feet. Winters are moderate for the region, snow that falls short of two feet, with ten dry inches of precipitation across the year. No land unit is on file.
Midwinter is the season on record. The water will scald; keep back from the source. There is no chemistry on file. Nor are fees or camping listed. Access rights unknown, so establish them before you go in.
Kyle Hot Springs is recorded under the same name by the USGS and by OpenStreetMap.
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 Kyle Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 72 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
A slice through the ground from west to east, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 86% 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.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.