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.
Another unnamed thermal point near Winnemucca, this one about three miles from town in Humboldt County. The water is warm, a touch below body temperature, on BLM public ground under the Humboldt River Field Office. Access is open. There is no water chemistry on file and no photograph, so what you have is a location, a temperature and a land status.
Roadside, under fifty feet from a road that has no name in the record. Elevation is close to five thousand feet. Snowfall averages a couple of feet a winter, and precipitation overall is light. Public land, no designation. What the source looks like, or how big it is, appears nowhere in the file, and neither do fees.
The winter months are flagged. At this temperature the water will feel cooler the colder the air is, so a summer visit might be the better bet. No fee, no campground, no notes on the road. Town is close, which helps. Check the temperature with a hand and look for posted signs before you get in.
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.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 377 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 23% 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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