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Truman Spring

Truman Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Truman Spring is a spring in Nevada, at a modelled elevation of 2,176 m. White Mountain Peak stands 4,344 m to the south-southeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is McBride Springs, a spring 2.5 miles away. 77 named places lie within 25 miles, 36 of them named summits.

How to reach it

Coordinates37.95289, -118.45273

77 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 36
Springs: 30
Ghost towns: 6
Historic sites: 4
  • Cousin Jack: 7.5 mi
  • Cabin: 8.1 mi
  • Petroglyphs: 21.0 mi
  • Champion Spark Plug Mine High Camp: 24.0 mi
Parks: 1
  • Ida Lynn Parkinson Park: 9.4 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
White Mountain PeakSSE 154°4,344 m24.5 mi
The JumpoffSSE 150°4,126 m11.1 mi
Mount DuboisSSE 153°4,126 m13.2 mi
Montgomery PeakSSE 147°4,098 m9.5 mi
Boundary PeakSE 143°4,007 m9.2 mi
Mount HogueSSE 152°3,884 m17.3 mi
Headley PeakSSE 154°3,858 m20.4 mi
Indian PeakSSE 157°3,443 m19.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:3119:06
June solstice05:3219:4120:20
September equinox06:4218:1818:52
December solstice07:0715:5716:39

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

  • meadow stars2 obs
  • cushion buckwheat1 obs
  • western blue-eyed grass1 obs
  • prickly sowthistle1 obs
  • western blue flag1 obs
  • Pringle's woolly sunflower1 obs
  • Meadow Deathcamas1 obs
  • smooth horsetail1 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/8465208452

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