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Soda Springs, Idaho

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Soda Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83276. It stands on Little Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Soda Springs quadrangle. 3,133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,774 feet above sea level.

Soda Springs within Caribou County

On record in Soda Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Soda Springs grew from 3,058 to 3,133 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
20103,058
20203,133+75 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Soda Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,133 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 September 1993Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHOOPER I
3 September 1993Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictCOOPER II
17 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestSAND POINT
8 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined350 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCARIBOU COUNTY ASSIST 1
6 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCARIBOU COUNTY ASSIST 1
4 August 2000Natural38 acresIdaho Falls DistrictSODA SPRNG
30 August 2011Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestELK HORN
28 August 2011Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestALEXANDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caribou County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Soda Springs: 5 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Vanadium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
East of Soda SpringsLimestone, GeneralUnknown
Hooper SpringManganeseProspect1963
Monsanto Elemental Phosphorus PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Monsato Quartzite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dewey Sulphur MineSulfurPast Producer1901
Idaho Sulphur MineSulfurPast Producer1901
Kerr Mcgee LimestoneStone, DimensionUnknown
Monsanta Plant-OreStone, DimensionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Caribou County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Soda Springs in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1996Heavy RainSoda Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caribou 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
Rose5.0 miles16
Alexander5.5 miles16
Conda6.4 miles15
Meadowville7.5 miles13
Grace8.6 miles16
Talmage9.8 miles12
Central11.1 miles12
Bench11.2 miles16

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 Q1517173The 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 400099. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.