Unnamed Thermal Spring
Lovelock is sixty-five miles from this unnamed thermal point in Pershing County, which sits a few steps off a road with no name on record. The water is scalding. The record carries a USGS site number but no land owner and no note on public access. Nobody has sampled the chemistry, and there is no photo.
Roadside, thirty-odd feet from the track. Low basin elevation, dry, a foot of snow in winter give or take. Whose ground it sits on is not recorded, so the surroundings are a question mark. No campground listed. The yearly average temperature sits in the mid-fifties.
The rated season is the three winter months. Water this hot will take skin off. Do not touch. Ownership and access are unknown, which means look from the road unless you know otherwise. No fee on file, no chemistry, no campground. The USGS site number is the only official record tied to it.
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
- 64 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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 17% 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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this spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water is dangerously hot, so bring water shoes and test pools carefully.
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