Hot Wells (San Antonio, Texas)
Hot Wells in San Antonio is a county-owned cultural historical park listed on file as a thermal site, on the east bank of the San Antonio River in Bexar County. It is open to the public and sits right at the roadside. No water temperature is on file, so this is a place to visit for the history and the setting, with no soak recorded.
The park sits on the east side of the river, beside the Southern Pacific rail line. Low elevation, under six hundred feet, with no snow and about thirty inches of rain a year. The county owns the land, under a unit named Hot Wells on file. About seven miles from San Antonio as measured.
no best months is on record, and in a climate with zero snow the year is open. Open access, right off the road. There is no temperature on file and no indication of a soaking pool, so go for the park and the missions nearby. No fee is recorded.
Wikipedia describes Hot Wells as a cultural historical park that complements the nearby San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, the state's only World Heritage Site, along with the Mission Reach of the San Antonio River Walk. It stands across South Presa Street from the San Antonio State Hospital and along the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Mission San José is within sight across the river.
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 Hot Wells (San Antonio, Texas).
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
- 30 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 0% 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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