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.
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
Caribou County Courthouselisted 1987
Enders Hotellisted 1993
William Hopkins Houselisted 1979
Edgar Walter Largilliere Sr. Houselisted 1991
Soda Springs City Halllisted 1993- Lander Roadlisted 1975
Population over time
2 figuresSoda 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,058 | |
| 2020 | 3,133 | +75 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1948 USGS Soda Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Soda Springs quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Soda Springs quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Soda Springs quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1993 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | HOOPER I |
| 3 September 1993 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | COOPER II |
| 17 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | SAND POINT |
| 8 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 350 acres | Idaho Falls District | CARIBOU COUNTY ASSIST 1 |
| 6 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 acres | Idaho Falls District | CARIBOU COUNTY ASSIST 1 |
| 4 August 2000 | Natural | 38 acres | Idaho Falls District | SODA SPRNG |
| 30 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | ELK HORN |
| 28 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | ALEXANDER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East of Soda Springs | Limestone, General | Unknown | ||
| Hooper Spring | Manganese | Prospect | 1963 | |
| Monsanto Elemental Phosphorus Plant | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Plant | ||
| Monsato Quartzite Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dewey Sulphur Mine | Sulfur | Past Producer | 1901 | |
| Idaho Sulphur Mine | Sulfur | Past Producer | 1901 | |
| Kerr Mcgee Limestone | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Monsanta Plant-Ore | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | Heavy Rain | Soda Springs | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1517173 | The 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.






