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Soda Springs, California

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Donner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95728. It lies near Uhlen Valley. The Survey maps it on the Soda Springs quadrangle. 94 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,768 feet above sea level.

Soda Springs within Nevada County

Then and now

1891 to 2000

The same ground, surveyed 109 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 Springs, surveyed 2000
Topographic sheet of Soda Springs, surveyed 1891

Population over time

2 figures

Soda Springs grew from 81 to 94 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
201081
202094+13 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 36 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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Soda Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 382 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 2 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
Natural60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Recreation and ceremony19
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2020Arson/incendiarism100 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitSKI AREA BOREAL TRUCKEE_F
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionEDIE
8 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitWB I80 AND SODA SPRINGS T
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestLONG
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTahoe National ForestNANCY FIRE
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBOREAL
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitSODA
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitYUBA DR / SHORT RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Soda Springs: 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium. 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
Castle Rock LodesUraniumOccurrence
Meadow LakeGoldProducer
Meadow LakeGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Nevada 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
Norden1.3 miles33
Kingvale2.6 miles36
Weeks Tract4.3 miles33
Gelatt4.7 miles33
Donner Woods4.8 miles33
Donner Lake Village5.0 miles33
Lakeview6.2 miles33
Donner Pines Tract7.1 miles36

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 SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7553186The 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 234848. 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.