Chinese Spring (Wyoming)

Chinese Spring (formerly called Chinaman Spring) is a hot spring in the Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, Teton County, Wyoming, in the United States..[1] The spring was named Chinaman Spring until 1990 when it was changed to the current less offensive name.[2][3]

Chinese Spring was named for a Chinese immigrant who often washed laundry in the spring in the 1850s.[4] Reportedly it may have actually been two Japanese men who ran a laundry service at the spring, though it is unclear when or whether they were really the reason for the spring's (possibly incorrect) name.[2] It is located in the Old Faithful group, near Blue Star Spring on the south side of the Firehole River.[5] In 1885, Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite wrote in a letter to geologist Arnold Hague that he had witnessed an eruption of the spring.[2] Modern eruptions are rare but can reportedly be as high as 20 feet lasting for two minutes.[5]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Chinese Spring (Wyoming)
  2. ^ a b c Whittlesey, Lee H. (2006). Yellowstone Place Names (Second ed.). Wonderland Publishing Company. p. 290.
  3. ^ "Geographic named targeted in Texas". The Victoria Advocate. Apr 15, 1990. pp. 2C. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  4. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Chinese Spring (Wyoming)
  5. ^ a b Bryan, T. Scott (2018). The Geysers of Yellowstone (Fifth ed.). University Press of Colorado. p. 589. ISBN 978-1-60732-839-1.

44°27′43.19″N 110°49′44.41″W / 44.4619972°N 110.8290028°W / 44.4619972; -110.8290028


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