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* [http://www.canvocta.org/routes/route_NoblesTrail.html A Photo Tour to California Via the Nobles Trail] "Trego Hot Springs", "It was night when I saw the springs and therefore could not have a good view of them although I had the sense of feeling and the water one could keep warm [in] comfortably especially if he should be fortunate enough to tumble into the seething cauldron for I could compare it to nothing else..." -- "Mary C. Fish, 1860" | * [http://www.canvocta.org/routes/route_NoblesTrail.html A Photo Tour to California Via the Nobles Trail] "Trego Hot Springs", "It was night when I saw the springs and therefore could not have a good view of them although I had the sense of feeling and the water one could keep warm [in] comfortably especially if he should be fortunate enough to tumble into the seething cauldron for I could compare it to nothing else..." -- "Mary C. Fish, 1860" | ||
* Nevada Outdoor School, "[http://www.nevadaoutdoorschool.org/InterpretiveKits/HS/EmThoughtsTrego.pdf Trego Hot Springs]." While the [[Nobles Trail]] was being improved, Trego Hot Springs was discovered. This source says that the springs were once called "Hot Sulphur Springs." | * Nevada Outdoor School, "[http://www.nevadaoutdoorschool.org/InterpretiveKits/HS/EmThoughtsTrego.pdf Trego Hot Springs]." While the [[Nobles Trail]] was being improved, Trego Hot Springs was discovered. This source says that the springs were once called "Hot Sulphur Springs." | ||
** Devere Helfrich, "[https://encrypted.google.com/books?id=CPF5AAAAMAAJ&q=Mary+C.+Fish++Nobles+Trail&dq=Mary+C.+Fish++Nobles+Trail&hl=en&sa=X&ei=afSDU972JI7roAS36YKYBw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ Emigrant Trails West: A Guide to Trail Markers Placed by Trails West, Inc. Along the California, Applegate, Lassen, and Nobles' Emigrant Trails in Idaho, Nevada, and California]," Description of Trego marker. | ** Devere Helfrich, "[https://encrypted.google.com/books?id=CPF5AAAAMAAJ&q=Mary+C.+Fish++Nobles+Trail&dq=Mary+C.+Fish++Nobles+Trail&hl=en&sa=X&ei=afSDU972JI7roAS36YKYBw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ Emigrant Trails West: A Guide to Trail Markers Placed by Trails West, Inc. Along the California, Applegate, Lassen, and Nobles' Emigrant Trails in Idaho, Nevada, and California]," Arrival at "Hot Sulphur Springs." Description of Trego marker. Description of [[Frederick W. Lander]]'s improvements. | ||
* BLM, "[http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/nv/cultural/reports/technical_reports.Par.7382.File.dat/06_Emigrant_Trails_Black_Rock_Desert.pdf Emigrant Trails In the Black Rock Desert, Technical Report No. 6]," "In 1856, the [[Nobles Trail|Nobles' Trail]] was shortened by the discovery of the Hot Springs at Trego." | * BLM, "[http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/nv/cultural/reports/technical_reports.Par.7382.File.dat/06_Emigrant_Trails_Black_Rock_Desert.pdf Emigrant Trails In the Black Rock Desert, Technical Report No. 6]," "In 1856, the [[Nobles Trail|Nobles' Trail]] was shortened by the discovery of the Hot Springs at Trego." | ||
* Henry Varnum Poor, "[https://encrypted.google.com/books?id=8vQhAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Western%20Pacific%22%20Trego&pg=PA452#v=onepage&q=%22Western%20Pacific%22%20Trego&f=false Poor's Manual of Railroads, Volume 53]," a transaction involving WPRR: "Albert Trego, Real Estate Agent." | * Henry Varnum Poor, "[https://encrypted.google.com/books?id=8vQhAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Western%20Pacific%22%20Trego&pg=PA452#v=onepage&q=%22Western%20Pacific%22%20Trego&f=false Poor's Manual of Railroads, Volume 53]," a transaction involving WPRR: "Albert Trego, Real Estate Agent." | ||
Revision as of 02:21, 27 May 2014
One of many hot springs modified by heavy machinery which line the edges of the Black Rock desert the Trego Trench, as it is commonly known, has wild variations in temperature, with little consistency.
It is on public land part of the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, right next to the railroad right of way and crossing.
Crossing the playa at Trego can present a hazard as it is hard to see oncoming train traffic.
Camping is at permitted at designated sites. Fire rings are provided.
See Also
External Resources
- GNIS, Trego
- Citation: U.S. Geological Survey. Geographic Names Phase I data compilation (1976-1981). 31-Dec-1981. Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files. In some instances, from 1:62,500 scale or 1:250,000 scale maps.
- Variant: Trego Siding. Citation: Garside, L. J. and Schilling, J. H. 'Thermal Waters of Nevada' Reno: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 91, 1979, 163 pp. Describes hot springs and hot water seeps of Nevada with location information and map at 1:1,000,000. p60
- GNIS, Trego Hot Springs
- Citation: U.S. Geological Survey. Geographic Names Post Phase I Map Revisions. Various editions. 01-Jan-2000.
- Variant: Butte Hot Spring. Citation: Garside, L. J. and Schilling, J. H. 'Thermal Waters of Nevada' Reno: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 91, 1979, 163 pp. Describes hot springs and hot water seeps of Nevada with location information and map at 1:1,000,000. p60
- The 1881 Gibbs map of California and Nevada indicates that "Boiling Butte" might be another name for Old Razorback Mountain.
- Butte Spring. Citation: Garside, L. J. and Schilling, J. H. 'Thermal Waters of Nevada' Reno: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 91, 1979, 163 pp. Describes hot springs and hot water seeps of Nevada with location information and map at 1:1,000,000. p126
- Kyles Hot Springs. Citation: Sacramento Daily Union Newspaper, August 26, 1864. Letters from Nevada Territory (by G.K.G.)
- Note that there is modern day Kyle Hot Spring near Unionville.
- Trego Hot Spring. Citation: Garside, L. J. and Schilling, J. H. 'Thermal Waters of Nevada' Reno: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 91, 1979, 163 pp. Describes hot springs and hot water seeps of Nevada with location information and map at 1:1,000,000. p60
- nbmg.unr.edu/geothermal Trego Hot Springs
- google map
- yahoo map
- terraserver
- Nobles Trail (Emigrant Trails West) "Trego Springs - Marker N-4"
Origin of Trego
Trego is named after the Western Pacific Railroad siding. But who was Trego?
- A Photo Tour to California Via the Nobles Trail "Trego Hot Springs", "It was night when I saw the springs and therefore could not have a good view of them although I had the sense of feeling and the water one could keep warm [in] comfortably especially if he should be fortunate enough to tumble into the seething cauldron for I could compare it to nothing else..." -- "Mary C. Fish, 1860"
- Nevada Outdoor School, "Trego Hot Springs." While the Nobles Trail was being improved, Trego Hot Springs was discovered. This source says that the springs were once called "Hot Sulphur Springs."
- Devere Helfrich, "Emigrant Trails West: A Guide to Trail Markers Placed by Trails West, Inc. Along the California, Applegate, Lassen, and Nobles' Emigrant Trails in Idaho, Nevada, and California," Arrival at "Hot Sulphur Springs." Description of Trego marker. Description of Frederick W. Lander's improvements.
- BLM, "Emigrant Trails In the Black Rock Desert, Technical Report No. 6," "In 1856, the Nobles' Trail was shortened by the discovery of the Hot Springs at Trego."
- Henry Varnum Poor, "Poor's Manual of Railroads, Volume 53," a transaction involving WPRR: "Albert Trego, Real Estate Agent."
- Dave Basso, "Ghosts of Humboldt region: a glimpse into Pershing County's past," 1970. "Named for a nearby peak". Presumably Old Razorback Mountain, see that page for links about Mount Trego.
Images
- Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection, Volume 94: Western Pacific Railroad -- Stations and Scenes -- Sacramento Northern :169 Trego station. Western Pacific Railroad. (Description only)
- spench.com
- loupiote
- lukecbarrett
- lukecbarrett