Scruggs 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.
Scruggs Springs is warm water inside Ash Meadows, the national wildlife refuge in Nye County, about 23 miles from Pahrump. Access is restricted by the Fish and Wildlife Service. The temperature is on the warm side, under body heat, and there is nothing on file about chemistry or a photo.
A walk of under half a mile. The road you start from has no name on record. Low desert at about 2,300 feet, where rain comes to four inches in a typical year and snow hardly ever falls. The land is federal, part of the refuge, and the spring is inside it.
The cool months rate best. Restricted access means the refuge sets the rules; find out before going. No fee or campground recorded. The temperature comes from a USGS site. The record carries nothing else about the place.
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 Scruggs Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 54 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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 45% 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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