Davis
Davis is a spring in Tooele County, roughly 26 miles from the town of Tooele, recorded at a temperature a shade under seventy degrees. That is barely warm, cooler than a swimming pool on a summer day. The water is fresh by desert standards, low in dissolved solids. Owner and access are blank.
A tenth of a mile separates it from an unnamed road. It sits higher than most springs in the region, above five thousand feet, and takes roughly three feet of snow over a winter. Simpson Springs Campground, twenty-one miles away, is the closest camping on the record.
The record lists winter as best, though for water this cool that guidance has limits. Treat it as a point of interest on a desert drive. Check who owns the ground. The sample is from 1964. Nothing on file mentions a fee or a structure at the spring. Tooele is the town for supplies and questions.
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 Davis.
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
- 26 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 60% 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.
The water at Davis is slightly alkaline (pH 7.8) with 412 mg/L total dissolved solids. It is notably rich in magnesium (known for muscle relaxation and stress relief) and chloride (natural antiseptic with skin health benefits).
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(Attention campers: Simpson Springs Campground will be closed for construction from Aug. 1, 2021 through Nov. 30, 2021) Near the site of the Simpson Springs station on the Pony Express Trail, 5100 foot elevation, 20sites, 1-11 are available on recreation.gov, 12-19 is first come, first served sites, $15 per night, tables, fire pits, two vehicles per site, 8 persons per site, maximum equipment size: 30 feet, pit toilets, potable water available March to November, no firewood, partial shade at...
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