Souse Springs
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Souse Springs, a bit over four miles from Hatch in Dona Ana County, is warm enough to notice and too cool to soak in. The water is bath-cool, short of anything you would call a soak, and the 1965 sample shows it running on the alkaline side with iron in the mix. The record says nothing about who owns it or whether visitors are welcome. There is no campground on file and no photo.
Roadside, seventy-five feet or so from a road the record leaves nameless, at low desert elevation. Almost no snow falls in a typical year, rain is scarce, and the average temperature sits mild. No land unit appears, so the spring could be on private ground for all the record says.
December is flagged, along with the two months that follow, and the climate makes that an easy call here, with nothing to block the road. The chemistry is sixty years old. Since the owner and the visiting rules are unrecorded, stop and ask in Hatch before walking onto anything. No camp is listed for this one.
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 Souse Springs.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 118 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 15% 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 Souse Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 8.5).
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