Jamieson 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.
Jamieson Hot Springs lies nineteen miles or so from Vale, in Malheur County. The entry calls it hot yet carries no measured temperature, so nothing says if it is soakable. Ownership and access are likewise unrecorded, and no photo exists. Until somebody takes a reading, treat the listing as a placeholder.
Hill Road passes about a hundred feet away, so there is no walk. Elevation is low desert, twenty-five hundred feet or thereabouts. Snowfall is modest, about two feet over a winter, and the year's rain is scant. No land unit is given, and Vale is the recorded town for supplies.
No best months are recorded for this spring. Winters are cold enough for snow, summers hot and dry. With temperature unmeasured and access unrecorded, verify in person before counting on it. No campground shows on the record. Hill Road is the only named feature on file, so that is the landmark to aim for.
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 Jamieson Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 175 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 3% 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.