Sulphur Spring
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
A second Sulphur Spring, this one in Eureka County about 23 miles from Eureka, with a tepid reading and no landowner on record. Saddler Brown Road passes close. Nothing on file settles whether the public is permitted. The USGS gave it a site number; nobody has given it a date or a water sample.
Saddler Brown Road runs close by, a short stretch on foot. The spring sits fairly high for this part of the state, and winter proves it with about three feet of snow. Yearly moisture is modest. Landowner unrecorded, land designation blank.
Winter ranks best on paper, though tepid water in cold air is a hard sell. Short walk from Saddler Brown Road. Sort out the ownership question first. Chemistry was never sampled, and the tepid figure has no date. Fee and campground are both blank, and no photograph exists.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 181 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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 39% 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.
Sulphur Spring sits at 5,822 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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