Unnamed Thermal Spring
The water here is only warm, around the temperature of a tepid bath. This is an unnamed Pershing County thermal point seventy-five miles from Lovelock. The landowner is not listed, and public access is unknown. The USGS measured dissolved solids in February 1980 and found them low. No pH and no other minerals were recorded.
A short walk from a road that goes unnamed, a couple of tenths of a mile. Low basin country, about two feet of snow in winter, a dry year. With neither land owner nor unit on file, the setting past the road is unknown. No camping recorded.
December to February are the rated months, though eighty-degree water will feel cool in a Nevada winter. Establish who owns the ground before heading out. No fee, no campground on file. The only chemistry is one dissolved-solids reading from 1980.
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.
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
- 27 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 23% 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 contains 230 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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