Unnamed Thermal Spring
Scalding water, far too hot for skin, rises at this unnamed point sixty-four miles out of Lovelock in Pershing County. The land belongs to the BLM's Black Rock Field Office, listed open. A June 1980 USGS sample found neutral water with iron and the common salts. The nearest road is three tenths of a mile away.
The road it is nearest to has no name in the record. Low basin elevation, dry year-round, snowfall around a foot. Public land, no designation. No campground on record. The average temperature through the year is in the mid-fifties, and the summer reading on the climate chart is the one that matters for the walk.
The record rates midwinter highest. Scalding. Keep well clear of the source. The walk in is short. No fee recorded, and the chemistry is from 1980, with nothing newer on file. Nobody has photographed it for the record.
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
- 55 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 18% 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 neutral (pH 7.1). It is notably rich in sodium (supports circulation and skin hydration) and chloride (natural antiseptic with skin health benefits).
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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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