Bully Creek 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.
Bully Creek Spring comes up at roughly body temperature beside Bully Creek Road in Malheur County, Oregon, about eleven miles from Vale. It is a USGS thermal point with soaking-warm water. Nobody has recorded a landowner, and public access is unknown as well. For a spring this close to a town, that gap matters more than usual.
Essentially at the roadside, a few steps from the car. Low desert, ten inches of rain a year, almost no snow. The record gives no campground, no land unit, and no designation, which leaves the surroundings as a blank apart from the road itself.
Any month would work for getting here by the climate, and the file points to winter. Warm enough for a soak if a pool exists, and the record is silent on that. Ownership and access are blank, so check before using it. Temperature is a USGS figure of unknown date, and no water chemistry was ever filed for this site.
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 Bully Creek Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 360 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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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