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 on BLM land in Humboldt County, under six miles from Winnemucca, which makes it one of the closer ones to a town. The recorded temperature is a round hundred degrees, firmly in soaking range. Access is listed as open. Nothing in the record describes a pool or any improvement, so what is on the ground is an open question.
Whitehorse Ranch Road is the named approach, with the spring about half a mile off it, a short walk by the record's classification. The Bureau of Land Management administers the ground through its Vale office. Elevation is mid-range high desert, around 4,500 feet, with a dry climate and a couple of feet of snow over a winter.
December, January and February carry the best rating on file. Open access on BLM land means no gate and no fee on record, though no one has filed a campground nearby either. There is no water chemistry to go on. A hundred degrees is comfortable for most people if the water is pooled at all, which the record does not say.
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
- 51 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
A slice through the ground from north to south, 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 9% 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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