Wilson Health 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.
Wilson Health Springs is a scalding spring inside the West Desert Test Center, a military installation in Millard County roughly sixty miles from Delta. The temperature on file is hot enough to burn skin. Public access is closed. The ground is defense land and the record lists it as shut to visitors.
A tenth of a mile separates the spring from the closest road, which has no name on the record. Low desert, dry, light winter snow and very little rain in any season. The land belongs to the defense establishment and falls within a test range, so the short walk in is one the public cannot make. No campground is listed anywhere near it.
There is no practical visit here while the range stays closed. If that ever changes, the water on file is scalding and would need care. Winter months score best on paper. No chemistry has been sampled that the record shows.
OpenStreetMap maps the spring under the same name, and the USGS holds a thermal site record for it.
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 Wilson Health Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 4 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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 45% 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.