The Indian Springs plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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22° on Nov. 13, 2000, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1978. Next is 24° in 1985.
Indian Springs’s center stands about 3,270 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,100 ft to 3,970 ft, a difference of 870 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bonanza Peak, about 10,370 ft, 15 miles south.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 4×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone, shale. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Quartzite, siltstone, phyllite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian, 521 to 1,000 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone, quartzite. Age: Cambrian to Middle Ordovician, 459 to 497 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
Rain that falls on Indian Springs runs only a short way, about 4 miles, to the Great Basin. The Great Basin has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Indian Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Indian Springs has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 101° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in December. About 5 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Indian Springs normally reaches 65° and falls to 39°. The record high is 80°, in 2021; the record low 23°, in 2000. The most rain on this date, 0.33 in, fell in 1988.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1978 at Desert Rock Airport, 17 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
