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.
Near Smith in Lyon County, an unnamed spring the record marks warm with no temperature given, so a soak is not something to count on. The ownership line is empty, as is access.
Four tenths of a mile of walking from a road the record leaves nameless. Mid-elevation, a touch above forty-five hundred feet. A couple of feet of snow per winter, about thirteen inches of moisture over the year. No USGS site is tied to it.
No best months listed. Check ownership before walking in. Nothing on fees or camping, and no chemistry. Treat the temperature as unknown until you have a hand in it.
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
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 19 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
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 2½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 95% 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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