Derry Warm Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Derry Warm Springs is a roadside warm spring in Dona Ana County, eleven miles from Hatch in the lower Rio Grande valley. The water is soaking warm, a shade above body heat, which makes it one of the few entries in this part of the state at a temperature you could sit in without cooling. Nobody has recorded who owns the land or if the public may use it.
Eighteen feet from the road. You could see it from a car window. Low, hot country at around 4,000 feet, dry enough that four inches of snow in a year counts as a lot. The land unit and owner never made it into the record. No land designation either, so the ground could be private or public.
Look before you assume anything. Access is unknown and the spring is close enough to the road that somebody owns the frontage. The analysis dates to 1974, and a temperature can drift over fifty years. Midwinter is the comfortable stretch down here. No campground is listed nearby.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 302 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, 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 25% 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 Derry Warm Springs is neutral (pH 7.2). It is notably rich in sodium (supports circulation and skin hydration), sulfate (traditionally used for skin conditions and inflammation), and chloride (natural antiseptic with skin health benefits).
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