Unnamed Thermal Spring
This unnamed thermal point in Owyhee County sits on public ground that the Bureau of Land Management manages, about 22 miles from Homedale. The record lists it as hot without giving a temperature, so no one can say from here if it is soakable. Access is open. What the record does have is a water analysis, which is more than most unnamed springs can claim.
One mile of walking, which the listing still calls a short walk, from a road it never names. BLM ground, run out of the Vale office. For this region it counts as low desert at a bit over three thousand feet, and it stays dry through the year with only light snow.
No best months are on file for this one. Access is open and there is no fee on record. The water chemistry dates from June 1992 and shows alkaline water carrying calcium, magnesium, sodium, sulfate and chloride; that is a thirty-year-old sample, so treat it as background. Since the temperature is not recorded, do not plan a soak around it. No campground is listed.
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.
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
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 277 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 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.
The water at This spring is alkaline (pH 8.9).
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