Spring
One of the springs inside Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, unnamed in the record, about eighteen miles from Pahrump. The water is tepid. Access is restricted: this is a refuge managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Roadside, a few dozen yards off a road the record does not name. Low desert floor, a bit above two thousand feet. Snow is essentially zero and the year brings four inches of rain. Winters are the mild season here.
Winter listed as best. Restricted access on a wildlife refuge means follow refuge rules and stay out of the water unless told otherwise. No fee is recorded. There is no campground listed and no chemistry.
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.
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 21 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
A slice through the ground from south to north, 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 51% 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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