Saulsbury Warm Spring
Saulsbury Warm Spring is on Toiyabe National Forest land in Nye County, about 25 miles from Tonopah, and open per the record. Warm is accurate, shy of body heat. A 1967 sample showed low dissolved solids with a touch of iron, and the whole thing sits at around 6,500 feet.
A short walk of nearly a mile from the nearest road, which has no name on file. High country under the Forest Service, with some 29 inches of snow in a winter and about eight inches of precipitation, dry apart from that snow. The Toiyabe is the land unit on record; the spring itself goes undescribed.
The record puts the season in winter. Nearly a mile of walking each way. Open, no fee recorded, no campground listed. The chemistry is from 1967; treat it as old news. The temperature is from a USGS site and the date of the reading is not given.
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 Saulsbury Warm 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.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 34 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 59% 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 Saulsbury Warm Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 8.1) with 229 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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Saulsbury Warm Spring sits at 6,523 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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