Little Basin
County: Clark
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Photographer: John Charlton/KGS
Place Name: Little Basin / St. Jacob's Well
Short description: Little Basin in Clark County. Little Basin, to the east of Big Basin, is about 280 yards (just under three football fields) in diameter and 35 feet from rim to floor. St. Jacob's Well, a 50-foot-wide spring-fed pool in the bottom of Little Basin, is a sinkhole within a sinkhole. No one has ever reported seeing it dry.
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