Sand Spring
Sand Spring in Lincoln County sits on Caliente Field Office BLM land about 41 miles from Alamo, open per the record, with water warm enough to notice and shy of bath temperature. Alamo is the only town the record names.
Under fifty feet from the road, which goes unnamed on file. About 4,800 feet, dry, six inches of precipitation and roughly a foot of snow over a winter. There is nothing on file about the ground around it.
Winter is the listed season. Open, with no fee on record. No campground either. A USGS site is attached; no date for the reading. No water chemistry is on file for this one either.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 38 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 43% 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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