Coso Hot Springs
Coso Hot Springs is located in California
Coso Hot Springs
Coso Hot Springs is located in the United States
Coso Hot Springs
Nearest cityLittle Lake, Inyo County, California
Area510 acres (210 ha)
Built1900
Architectural styleRustic architecture
NRHP reference No.78000674[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 3, 1978

Coso Hot Springs is a hot spring complex in the Coso Volcanic Field in the Mojave Desert of Inyo County, California.[2] The Springs are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Geography

The Coso Hot Springs lie within the boundaries of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS China Lake), near Little Lake, Inyo County, California and U.S. Route 395. They are near the Coso Mountains, north of Indian Wells Valley and south of the Owens Valley. The hot springs are part of the geothermal activity of the Coso Volcanic Field.

Water profile

The hot mineral water emerges from the ground at 207 °F (97 °C).[3]

History

The springs were a traditional Native American cultural and healing ritual site of the Coso people, and later the Northern Paiute and Timbisha. The site is called Kooso or Muattang Ka in Timbisha.[4] In the 1920s it was a "hot springs resort." Contemporary local Native American people periodically have ceremonies at the springs.

Coso Hot Springs is the site of one of the largest (if not the largest) assemblages of prehistoric rock art in North America.[5] The areas known as Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons by the hot springs have over 20,000 remarkably undisturbed images in a distinctive so-called Coso style.

Coso Hot Springs, February 4, 1920

See also

Remains of a wooden sweat lodge used by the Paiute and Timbisha people for healing rituals.

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ Person, M. A.; Cohen, D.; Sabin, A.; Unruh, J.; Gable, C.; Zyvoloski, G.; Meade, D.; Bjornstad, S.; Monastero, F. (2007). "Coso Hot Springs: A Condensate Fed Geothermal Feature". AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007. 2007. Bibcode:2007AGUFM.V54C..02P.
  3. ↑ Berry, George; Grim, Paul; Ikelman, Joy (1980). Thermal Springs List for the United States. Boulder, Colorado: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  4. ↑ Dayley, Jon (1989). Tumpisa (Panamint) Shoshone dictionary. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520097544.
  5. ↑ Gilreath, Amy; Hildebrandt, William (2008). "Coso rock art within its archaeological context". Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. 28 (1): 1–22. JSTOR 27825873. Retrieved April 10, 2021.

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