Boiling Spring (updated 2003)

Waring (1965, spring no. 50) reported a warm spring in T27N, R23E on the northwest shore of Winnemucca Lake, listing Russell (1885) as the reference. Russell (1885, p. 50) reported that "A number of small springs, some of which are warm, occur on the west side of Winnemucca Lake." Garside and Schilling (1979) assumed the warm spring was Boiling Spring in Sec. 34, T28N, R23E. However, Boiling Spring is cold (about 17°C) as are a group of springs about 1 km to the north in Sec. 27 (L. Garside, unpub. data, 1983). Hose and Taylor (1974, Table 1) reported an 86°C spring in Sec. 26, T28N, R23E (40 16'N, 119 22'W). The longitude-latitude location places the spring immediately adjacent to the highway about 1 km east of the Sec. 27 cold springs. We presently (2003) assume the Hose and Taylor (1974) location is in error; however, there are many springs along the east side of the Lake Range in this area that have not been examined.