Warm Springs (Immigrants Washtub)
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Warm Springs, also called Immigrants Washtub, is a tepid spring near Guernsey in Platte County, Wyoming. It lies on the Camp Guernsey military training center and public access is listed as closed. The water is about 70 degrees. The name is on file; its story is not.
Military land, the National Guard's Camp Guernsey maneuver training center, a little over half a mile from the nearest road. Low elevation and dry, with a mild mean temperature and modest snow. The walk in is short. None of that matters if the gate is shut, and the record says it is.
Closed to the public per the record. Do not plan a visit without clearance from the installation. Winter is listed as best, for what it is worth. No campground is on file.
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 Warm Springs (Immigrants Washtub).
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 141 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
A slice through the ground from south to north, 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.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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