Spring
Ash Meadows again: an unnamed spring in Nye County, twenty-three miles or so from Pahrump. Tepid. Refuge land under the Fish and Wildlife Service, with access listed as restricted, which means the water is off limits unless the refuge says otherwise.
Several hundred feet from a nameless road. Low desert, twenty-three hundred feet or so. Almost no snow, four inches of yearly rain. The record says nothing about the spring itself.
December through February listed. Restricted access: check refuge rules before going near the water. Fees are not mentioned. Camping is not mentioned. No water sample has been logged for this point.
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
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 67 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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 47% 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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