Storm 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.
Storm Spring comes up at body temperature, a soaking warm reading for anyone who likes a long, gentle sit. It is on BLM land managed from the Tonopah Field Office, 77 miles from Eureka, the nearest city, and access is open to the public. The temperature is a USGS survey number without a date, and no chemistry has been run.
Lockes Road passes a couple hundred feet from the source. It is BLM ground with open access and the plain public designation. Dry country: winter snow is light, around a foot, and the whole year's precipitation runs about six inches. Elevation is moderate for central Nevada.
The record leans winter. Roadside access off Lockes Road. The record shows no fee and names no campground. At body heat the water will feel pleasant in cold air and less exciting in warm weather, so the season matters. Eureka is a long drive, and nothing closer is listed.
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 Storm Spring.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 77 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 38% 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.
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