Fivemile Spring
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Fivemile Spring is a warm spring in Humboldt County, Nevada, well out from town, sixty-two miles from Winnemucca. Bath-warm water. Reaching it means a hike of close to two miles from the nearest road. Landowner and access are unrecorded.
No road name is on file for the approach, only that the spring is 1.7 miles from it. It lies at roughly 4,500 feet. Snowfall over a winter is around two feet and precipitation runs ten inches.
Winter months per the record. Hike in, nearly two miles each way, across ground whose ownership is unknown. Warm water, no burn risk. No campground listed. Check access before committing to the walk.
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 Fivemile Spring.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 166 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 53% 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.