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Soda Bay, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Clearlake Riviera census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95451. It lies near Clark Peak. The Survey maps it on the Lucerne quadrangle. 1,163 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,398 feet above sea level.

Soda Bay within Lake County

Then and now

1938 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Soda Bay, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Soda Bay, surveyed 1938

Compare 1938 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Soda Bay grew from 1,016 to 1,163 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,016
20201,163+147 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Soda Bay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,500 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined97
Equipment and vehicle use51
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism22
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1995Smoking2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitKELSEYVILLE
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHWY 20 / LAKEVIEW DR
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBRUNER
6 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern California DistrictCHAMPION
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSODA
30 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitYAQUIMA DR KELSEYVILLE 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Soda Bay: 11 occurrences, 9 unknowns, 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Auschwitz PropertySulfurOccurrence
Immel PropertyMineral Pigments, IronPast Producer
Konocti QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Volcanic MaterialsProducer
LucittaMercury, KaolinPast Producer1885
S-Bar-S RanchDiamondOccurrence
SchafferGarnetUnknown
Bartlet SpringsDiatomiteUnknown
Immel PropertyMineral PigmentsProducerMineral Paint
S-Bar-S RanchDiatomiteUnknown
Schaffer ProspectChromiumOccurrenceChromite

Every working recorded in Lake County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Buckingham Park1.9 miles21
Riviera West2.3 miles21
Riviera Estates2.8 miles21
Kelseyville3.1 miles20
Glenhaven3.4 miles21
Pepperwood Grove4.0 miles21
Finley4.6 miles22
Clear Lake Riviera4.9 miles21

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Soda BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3774771The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1659810. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.