Goat Camp 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.
Goat Camp Spring is a barely warm seep on Bureau of Land Management ground in Greenlee County, and the record places it at Clifton itself, zero miles out. The water would hardly register against your skin on a summer day; it sits a shade under seventy degrees. Public access is listed as open. Nobody is going to soak here, though it counts as a thermal point for anyone tracking them across the state.
A road passes about forty yards off, so you can all but see the spring from the car. The BLM's Las Cruces District Office manages this stretch, public land with no special designation noted. The country lies at desert elevation with a mild average temperature, almost no snow in a typical winter, and rain that comes sparingly. No road name is given.
Winter months carry the best-season flag, and with snow nearly absent here that holds up. Owl Creek Campground, close to eighteen miles away, is the only camp on record, so it is no base for this spot. No water chemistry has ever been recorded. Since the spring sits on open BLM land a visit is uncomplicated, though the water will be no warmer than a cool bath.
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 Goat Camp Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 70 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 16% 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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Located in the Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area in Arizona, Owl Creek Campground has seven campsites, picnic tables, grills, ramadas, trash receptacles, and restroom facilities available to make your stay more enjoyable. There is no potable water available at the campground. Three of the campsites are pull-through sites, and four are pull-in sites, making the campground suitable for trailers and RVS. The campground is a stop on the Black Hills Back Country Byway, and it is also j...
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