Sitz Warm 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.
Sitz Warm Spring is a spring in Harney County about 33 miles from Burns. The name calls it warm. No temperature reading is on file, so the page cannot say how warm, and it would be wrong to call it soakable. Neither the landowner nor the public access status is recorded. It is a thin entry.
The spring is a short walk from the nearest road, a couple tenths of a mile, and the record does not name the road or give an elevation. Harney County winters bring moderate snow, around two and a half feet, and the year is dry.
No best months are listed. Chukar Park Campground is about sixteen miles away and is the only camping on record. With no temperature on file and no owner or access status, this is a spring to research before visiting, and whatever you find out, assume nothing about the water.
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 Sitz Warm Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 69 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from west to east, 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.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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