Scott 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.
Scott Spring is a barely warm spring that the record places in Owyhee County, about 39 miles from Homedale, which is a long drive for water cooler than skin. There is no owner listed and no access status. No campground is recorded nearby either. It is a point on the map with a name and a temperature, and little else.
Reaching the spring means walking about a mile from the nearest road, which goes unnamed in the record. The elevation is just under four thousand feet. Snow is light, under two feet a winter, and this is dry country with around eleven inches of precipitation a year.
The record flags midwinter as the time to go. The water is too cool for soaking. Because ownership and access are both unrecorded, find out whose land the mile-long walk crosses before you set out. No fee and no facilities are on file.
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 Scott Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 55 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 7% 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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