Spanish Springs is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

[3] Sky Ranch Airport, a 2,000-foot (610 m)-long dirt airstrip, was located northeast of the intersection of State Route 445 and Spanish Springs Road.

This 1940s auxiliary field was the site of the first Reno Air Races, in 1964 and 1965, then was the location of the headquarters of the 126,000-acre (510 km2) Rocketdyne Nevada Field Laboratory (NFL), which was used in the late 1960s and early 1970s for testing rocket engines used in the Space Program.

With the closure of Sky Ranch in 1970, another airfield was graded approximately 2 miles (3 km) west.

Washoe County is the first school district in Nevada to offer Paiute classes.

9.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 1.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.