Spring (Hot)
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
A hot, unnamed spring in Elko County, a long way from anywhere: West Wendover is the nearest town and it is forty-five miles off. The water is on the hot side of soakable. The record is blank on who owns it and on access.
Wilkins-Montello Road is the closest road, about seven tenths of a mile away on foot. Basin elevation, roughly five thousand feet. Two feet of snow most winters, ten inches of yearly moisture, give or take.
Winter per the record. Hot enough to want testing before you get in; above 110 is where skin starts to complain after a few minutes. The walk from the road is under a mile. Ownership unknown, so look for signs. Chemistry was never sampled. Fee and camping are blank.
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 Spring (Hot).
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 233 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 36% 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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