Jackson Hot 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.
Jackson Hot Springs is a warm spring three miles from Ashland in Jackson County, Oregon, with water at a pleasant soaking temperature and a strongly alkaline chemistry. The USGS site record shows a discharge of zero at the last reading, which raises the question of whether anything is flowing at the surface now. Owner and access status are absent from the file.
A hundred feet or so from the road, which the record leaves unnamed. Low elevation, a moderate climate with some snow, nowhere near the amounts the high country gets. Hyatt Lake Recreation Area is the camping the record pairs with it, about fifteen miles away.
The record prefers winter. Water chemistry dates from 1952, so the pH and mineral figures are antique. Zero recorded discharge means you should not assume there is a pool to get into. Nobody has recorded who owns it or if you may visit; find out first. No fee is noted. There is no land unit on record for it, nor a designation.
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 Jackson Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the southwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 314 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 45% 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 Jackson Hot Springs is alkaline (pH 9.3) with 312 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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