White House 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.
White House Spring sits in Lander County about sixteen miles from Battle Mountain. A 1992 sample found the water mildly alkaline with a modest mineral load, but the person who took it noted the temperature only as warm, so there is no figure to go on. The USGS tracks the spring as a thermal site. Nobody has recorded an owner, and public access is not on file.
Rock Creek Road runs within about fifty feet, so the spring is practically a roadside feature. Valley floor country by local standards, around forty six hundred feet, and yet the winters pile up a bit more than four feet of snow, which is a lot for the basin around Battle Mountain. The rest of the year is moderate. No campground shows up nearby.
No months are ranked. Snow makes the road the issue in winter, and the roadside position makes everything else straightforward. Since ownership is unknown, confirm before you stop and walk over. The chemistry is more than thirty years old and the temperature was never measured, so what you find may differ from what was written.
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 White House Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 423 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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 53% 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.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
The water at White House Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 7.6) with 277 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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