Johnson 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.
Johnson Spring is a lukewarm spring in Harney County, Oregon, twenty-two miles or so from Hines. Tepid water, the temperature of a cool bath. The USGS logged it as a thermal location, and that is the extent of what is on record; No owner and access is on record, and no second name appears from any other source.
Under a quarter mile from an unnamed road, out in dry high desert with light winter snow. No campground is listed anywhere near. Nobody has tied a land unit or a designation to the spring.
Winter is the season the file lists as best, and with so little snow that is not much of an obstacle. Too cool to soak in. No information on ownership or access exists on record, so confirm before visiting. The temperature is a survey reading of unknown date, and no water chemistry was ever filed for the 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 Johnson Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 4 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 8% 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.