Socorro Spring, Sedillo 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.
Two named springs, Socorro and Sedillo, recorded together as a single thermal point a couple of miles from Socorro. Soaking warm, low nineties, comfortable without any cooling. No access or owner on record. USGS ran the water in 1964 and got an alkaline result with chloride, sulfate, sodium, magnesium, calcium and a little iron.
Some 500 feet from a nameless road in the record, on the desert edge near Socorro at around 5,000 feet. Light snow, a dry year, warm summers. Land unit and owner are blank. The record does not say which of the two names belongs to which outlet, or if there are two outlets at all.
Water Canyon Campground is eleven miles out. Check access, because the spring is near town and likely on somebody's ground. Pick a winter month. The reading is sixty years old, and a spring this close to a town could have been altered since.
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 Socorro Spring, Sedillo Spring.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 247 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 14% 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 Socorro Spring, Sedillo Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 7.9).
This campground is located at an elevation of 6,800 feet in the Magdalena Mountains.
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