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.
The record files this unnamed warm spring under Nevada, in Modoc County, with Alturas given as the nearest town at no distance at all. The water is tepid, cooler than a bath, and a 2020 sample shows it very lightly mineralized, close to fresh. Neither the land owner nor any access status is recorded. There is no photograph.
County Road 217 passes within about a hundred and eighty feet. Roadside. Elevation is around forty-six hundred feet, and winters bring close to three feet of snow on low precipitation overall. The record carries no land unit and no designation, and no campground is listed, so the setting beyond the road is undocumented. Whatever is there, nobody has written it down.
The calendar note on file says midwinter, though tepid water in a snowy month is a narrow pleasure. Because ownership is blank, assume the spring may be on private ground until you learn otherwise. The sample is recent, which is unusual for this database. Roadside access means no walking 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
- 303 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 86% 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.
The water at Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 7.6) with 161 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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