Unnamed Thermal 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.
An unnamed thermal point in Harney County, about 23 miles from Hines, with water that is barely warm. It is a USGS site and little else. The owner is blank in the record. So is the access status. The record gives it no second name from OpenStreetMap and no water chemistry.
Getting there means a couple tenths of a mile on foot from the closest road, and nobody recorded a name for that road. The spring sits at about forty-one hundred feet in the high desert. Winter snow is a little over two feet and the precipitation total is around a foot a year.
Midwinter is the period on file. The water is cooler than skin and will not soak anybody. No camping is listed near it. Because nobody has recorded ownership, confirm the land is open before you walk in from the road.
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 this spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 3 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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 46% 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.