Black Sand Basin History By Rocco Paperiello

[ Black Sand Pool ] [ "Boiling Egg Pool" ] [ Brown Spouters ]
[ Cliff Geyser ] [ Cucumber Spring ] [ Demon's Cave ] [ Emerald Pool ]
[ Green Spring ] [ Hankerchief Geyser ] [ Hankerchief Pool ] [ KelpPool ]
[ Marsh Pool ] [ Opalescent Pool ] [ Pentagonal Spring ] [ Ragged Spring ]
[ Rainbow Pool ] [ Specimen Lake ] [ Spouter Geyser ]
[ Sunset Lake ] [ Whistle Geyser ]

[ Unnamed Geysers and Springs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ]

Black Sand Pool:

The name of Black Sand Geyser was given to this feature by the 1871 Hayden Survey, and A. C. Peale, in 1878, continued its use. However, by the late 1880s, the name of “Black Sand Spring” was one people were using.

At the same time, the name “Black Sand Basin” was being used to describe the area including “Black Sand Spring” and the extensive overflow basins (Specimen Lake) below the spring. (The name “Sunlight Basin” was being used for the area of springs along Iron Spring Creek, the main portion of today’s Black Sand Basin). Some confusion developed when the name of “Black Sand Basin,” by at least the late 1800s, was being used also by some for the “Black Sand Spring.” [Whittlesey 1988]