Unnamed Thermal 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.
Sixty miles from Tonopah, high in Nye County, an unnamed thermal point on BLM land that the Tonopah Field Office manages. The survey called it hot without recording a reading. A USGS sample from May 1967 found neutral water with very little dissolved in it. Access is listed open. With no temperature on file, a soak is not something the record can promise.
High country by Nevada standards. Most of a mile separates the source from the closest road, which has no name on file, and the record calls the approach a short walk. Winters are cold, the annual average temperature sits below fifty, and snow totals pass three feet in a typical year. Dry the rest of the time. No campground on record, and no designation is attached to the land.
No best months were scored for this point. Summer and early autumn will have the least snow at this elevation. Plan on walking most of a mile in. No fee appears. The chemistry is close to sixty years old, and the missing temperature means you should test before trusting.
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 this spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 2 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 30% 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 This spring is slightly alkaline (pH 7.5) with 187 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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this spring sits at 6,836 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 27% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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this spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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