Unnamed Thermal 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.
An unnamed thermal point on the Armendaris Ranch, private conservation land in Socorro County, seventeen miles from Socorro. The ranch is private and access is closed. Tepid, around seventy. No water chemistry on record and no USGS site number. The land designation reads private conservation, and the closed status leaves nothing to plan around, so this page exists for completeness.
A hike of around 1.4 miles from the road, on private conservation land at around 5,400 feet. Desert, dry, light snow, mild average. The ranch is the owner of record, under a private conservation designation. The record has no road name. With the property closed, the spring is unlikely to get described any time soon.
Do not go. The ranch is private and closed to the public. Water Canyon Campground is about seventeen miles away, for anyone in the area for other reasons. The temperature would not reward trespass anyway. Winter is the only rated season.
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 this spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 75 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
A slice through the ground from north to south, 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 62% 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.
This campground is located at an elevation of 6,800 feet in the Magdalena Mountains.
this spring sits at 5,411 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 22% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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