Raine Ranch Springs
Raine Ranch Springs is a thermal site in Elko County about nine miles from Carlin. The record tags it warm without giving a measured temperature. It lists no elevation and no owner. Access status is blank too. The name includes the word ranch; the record itself says nothing about ownership.
Eureka / Carlin Road is about a tenth-mile away on foot. Elko County weather is cool across the year, with a foot of precipitation. Three feet of snow is a normal winter. No elevation is on file, so the setting cannot be placed as high country or valley floor from the record alone.
No season is recorded. With the snowfall here, the short walk from the road is easiest outside winter. Nothing on file for a campground or a fee, and no temperature or access status. Find the landowner before you go, and do not expect soaking water until someone has measured it.
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 Raine 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.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 437 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 53% 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.
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