Warm Springs

Documentation record: Warm Springs has no documented pool and no verified public access information. This page records what the official geothermal registries say about the spring, and nothing beyond it.

Warm Springs appears in the federal thermal springs list at 84 °F, in Clark County northwest of Dubois, on the Edie Ranch quadrangle. The U.S. Geological Survey’s GEOTHERM file carries the same spring as record 0081092 in Township 11 North, Range 32 East, Section 25, at 29 °C, which is the same 84 °F.

The federal geographic names record carries a spring of this name in the same Clark County section, and a USGS water data compilation holds the spring’s entire observational record: one field visit, on August 25, 1972, measuring 29.0 °C. Four federal records, one spring, one section, one temperature. The state geothermal dataset does not carry it at all, and no other source consulted adds a fact to the federal rows.

Read this page as a documentation record for a real, inventoried spring in high desert ranch country, not as a destination guide. No pool, development, visit, or public access is documented anywhere for Warm Springs, and no agency manages it as a recreation site. At 84 °F it is a genuinely warm spring, and a minor one: a single measured vent in open range country, written down once by a federal survey party more than fifty years ago and, so far as any source shows, never written about again.

One name note, because Idaho uses this name more than once: this is not the Warm Springs beside Idaho City, the developed resort that began as the Warm Springs Resort and now operates as The Springs. That is a different spring in Boise County, some 60 miles away, and it has its own full listing on this site as The Springs Resort in Idaho City. This page covers only the Clark County spring that every registry carries under the bare name Warm Springs.

Soak Stats

Place Information

Location and Access

The spring’s inventory point sits in the high desert ranch country northwest of Dubois, in the Medicine Lodge Creek drainage, about 21 miles from town in a straight line. Dubois is the Clark County seat, and this is some of the emptiest settled country in eastern Idaho: sagebrush range, ranch roads, and long distances between fences. It is working ranch country, not a recreation area, and no road, trail, or directions to the spring are published in any source consulted.

Beyond that, this listing deliberately does not go. No published route to the spring exists, no source describes a visit to it, and ownership of the section the spring rises in is not confirmed in any source consulted. The coordinates are public record in the registries linked above, but a set of coordinates is not an invitation, and on land of unconfirmed ownership it is not permission. Anyone with a genuine reason to visit should establish land ownership and, if the land is private, get the landowner’s permission first.

Is There a Soak Here?

The honest answer is that no source describes one at this spring. No soaking guide covers it, and no trip report or photograph tied to this inventoried vent exists in any source consulted; the aggregator pages that carry its name repeat the registry row and nothing more.

The whole observational record is the 1972 survey visit, and whether the spring still surfaces today is not verified anywhere. At 84 °F the source water would be warm rather than hot even if a pool existed, and nothing in any record suggests one was ever built. If a landowner confirmation, a county record, or a credible field report ever surfaces, this page will be updated.

History

There is no settler story to tell here, and this listing does not invent one. Warm Springs enters the written record through the geothermal surveys and never leaves them. The one human moment in its file is the federal field visit of August 25, 1972, preserved in the U.S. Geological Survey’s thermal water compilation: the party recorded the spring at 29.0 °C, with a specific conductance of 443 and a pH of 7.0, and no federal party is recorded as having returned.

The registries that followed, the thermal springs list, the GEOTHERM file, and the geographic names record, all carry the spring under the bare name Warm Springs, with no qualifier and no story attached. Even the name is shared: the federal thermal list carries two Idaho springs under exactly this name, this Clark County spring and the Idaho City spring distinguished in the note above, and telling them apart is most of what this page exists to do.

Nearby Hot Springs

The nearest listing on this site is Lidy Hot Springs, another Clark County record roughly 9 to 10 miles south: a former resort spring, closed and private, from a different registry record entirely. No soakable spring is documented in the immediate country around Warm Springs; the Dubois area’s springs are inventory records and private water, and this listing is honest about that rather than dressing the neighborhood up. More East-Central Idaho hot springs →