Reveille Mill 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.
Reveille Mill Spring, a warm spring on Tonopah Field Office BLM land in Nye County, sits about 46 miles from Tonopah. Warm, in this case, is cooler than a bath, short of body heat. Access is open. The water tested very low in dissolved solids back in 1967, close to plain water.
Roadside, a couple hundred feet from the track, which is unnamed on record. It sits high, above 6,400 feet, dry at about eight inches of precipitation and two feet of snow in a normal winter. The Tonopah Field Office is the managing unit, and nothing on file describes the pool itself.
The record favors winter, December through February. Open BLM land, no fee listed, no campground within the record. The 1967 chemistry has sodium, sulfate and chloride in small amounts; take it as historical. At this temperature a cold day will make the water feel cool, so the winter rating is about the weather, and the water will not warm you much.
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 Reveille Mill Spring.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 245 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 60% 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.
The water at Reveille Mill Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 7.7) with 143 mg/L total dissolved solids.
Reveille Mill Spring sits at 6,422 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 26% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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