Telephone Well (updated 2004)

Telephone Well is located in Copper Valley, which makes up the southern end of Granite Springs Valley north of the Trinity Range. Phillips Petroleum Co. drilled about 36 temperature-gradient wells and two slim holes over an area of 50 km2 in the vicinity of Telephone Well in the 1980s (SMU; Sass and others, 1999; Richards and Blackwell, 2002). The wells have temperatures up to 45.6ºC at about 190 m (GeothermEx, 2004). Location: 40.00ºN, 119.03ºW.