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.
An unnamed USGS thermal point in Lander County, thirty-odd miles from Battle Mountain. Tepid water. The road runs right over it, four feet off by the record. There is no landowner entry and no word on access.
You could step out of the vehicle onto it. Five thousand feet, basin country, with a couple feet of snow in winter and ten inches or so of moisture a year. The road itself is unnamed on file. Nothing describes the surroundings.
The listing says winter, though for water this cool that is mostly about avoiding summer heat. Confirm ownership. Chemistry was never sampled. The record has nothing on a fee or a campground.
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 east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 200 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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 65% 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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