Capote Springs
Capote Springs is a warm spring in Presidio County, Texas, about 33 miles from Marfa. The recorded temperature comes in a hair under a hundred, right where most people like a soak. There is no word on who owns it or who may visit, so do not take it for granted that you can walk up. Getting there means a hike of about a mile from the nearest road.
A hike, by the record, a bit over a mile from an unnamed road. The elevation is just under 3,800 feet, which is desert upland. This is dry country: about nine inches of precipitation a year and snow that barely registers. No land manager and no campground are on file.
The cooler months rate best on the record, December through February, and in a desert climate that makes sense. Access is not recorded. Check ownership before setting out, since the ground may be private. No water chemistry is filed. There is a photo on record.
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 Capote 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
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 308 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, 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 4% 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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