Kennecott Warm 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.
Kennecott Warm Springs is a thermal point in the USGS record for Grant County, eleven miles from Hurley. No temperature is on file, only the label warm and a 1955 water sample showing sulfate and chloride at a near neutral pH. With no measured temperature there is no basis for calling it soakable, or for calling it anything. Access is unrecorded as well.
Two hundred feet off the closest road at around five thousand feet, in dry country where snow is rare. Owner and unit are absent, as is any note on the spring's form or the road's name. It is the sparsest kind of entry, a coordinate and a chemistry date, and the county is the only firm location.
The name and the sample are close to all that exist. Confirm ownership before looking for it, since the land could be private. No temperature means no season to recommend, and the record leaves best months blank. No campground listed. If you find it and measure it, that would be more than USGS has done since 1955.
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 Kennecott Warm Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 62 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 29% 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 Kennecott Warm Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.4).