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Dip Spring

Dip Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Dip Spring is a spring in Nevada, at a modelled elevation of 1,982 m. McAfee Peak stands 3,183 m to the northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Chicken Creek Springs, a spring 1.4 miles away. 62 named places lie within 25 miles, 31 of them named summits.

How to reach it

Coordinates41.38365, -115.72427

62 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 31
Ghost towns: 5
Cliffs: 1
Parks: 1
  • Wild Horse State Recreation Area: 20.1 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Dip Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
McAfee PeakNW 307°3,183 m16.1 mi
Jacks PeakNW 310°3,112 m18.6 mi
Jacks PeakWNW 296°3,064 m16.2 mi
Wheeler MountainWSW 249°2,750 m17.0 mi
Rocky BluffNW 319°2,693 m19.9 mi
Nannies PeakSW 216°2,672 m22.1 mi
Lone MountainSW 216°2,670 m22.1 mi
Red MountainNW 321°2,650 m21.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4718:1918:55
June solstice05:1019:3920:21
September equinox06:3118:0518:42
December solstice07:0615:3316:17

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F192231384654636152413020
Precip in1.71.01.21.41.60.80.50.40.60.81.11.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wild Horse Rsvr, 18 mi away.

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Feb–May — fullest in Apr, leanest in Aug.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs2.610.531.945.122.17.00.70.10.10.40.91.4

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Beaver CK Abv Conf N FK Humboldt RV NR Halleck, NV, 9 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

  • Pacific chorus frog1 obs
  • Western Terrestrial Garter Snake1 obs
  • Greater Short-horned Lizard1 obs
  • common starlily1 obs
  • rabbitfoot grass1 obs
  • yellow owl's-clover1 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/11001996986

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