Springs
Recorded only as Springs, this is a point in Malheur County about nineteen miles from Vale, near a road called Swimming Pool Road. No temperature reading is on file, and the record qualifies the water as warm without a number. Ownership and access are unrecorded. The encyclopedia link attached describes Breitenbush Hot Springs, a different place entirely, so it is no help here.
The spring sits a few hundred feet off Swimming Pool Road, the closest road to it. The elevation is around twenty-six hundred feet in the low desert. Winter snow is slight, just over a foot, and precipitation is under ten inches a year.
No best months are on file. No campground is listed. With the temperature blank, nobody can say from this page whether the water is soakable. The road name is suggestive, and the record says nothing more. Confirm ownership before walking in.
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 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.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 71 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 20% 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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