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.
Thirty miles out of Tonopah in Nye County, an unnamed spring on Tonopah Field Office ground with access listed open. The water sits in the tepid range, a little short of what most people call a soak.
Most of a mile on foot, with the closest road unnamed on file. High basin, well above five thousand feet. Snow is around sixteen inches a winter and the year is dry, six inches.
Winter per the listing. Chemistry comes from a 1967 sample: slightly alkaline, moderately mineralised. Iron was present. Six decades old. Open access, no fee recorded, no campground on record.
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
- 54 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 44% 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 7.8) with 945 mg/L total dissolved solids. It is notably rich in sulfate (traditionally used for skin conditions and inflammation).
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Spring sits at 5,635 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 23% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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