Nixon Spring
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Nixon Spring is a warm spring in Texas with Ojinaga listed as its nearest town, and the record places it right at Ojinaga, with no county given. The temperature on file is ninety degrees, body-warm. No owner and no access status are recorded. It is classed as a hike, a little over a mile from the nearest road.
A mile and a fifth from an unnamed road, on foot. Elevation around 3,400 feet, dry desert climate, nine inches of precipitation a year and a trace of snow. The record does not say who manages the ground and lists no campground.
The cool months, December through February, rate best on file. Ownership and access are unknown. The record puts Ojinaga as the nearest town at essentially zero distance, which is odd for a spring a mile from any road, so treat the location as something to verify. No chemistry on file. Ninety-degree water sits at body temperature.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 585 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 8% 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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