Explore Soda Springs, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Soda Springs, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Soda Springs.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Soda Springs |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Mendocino County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 39.324788 |
| Longitude | -120.378665 |
| Population | 94 |
| Density | 107.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 96162, 95415, 93257, 95728 |
| Area Code | 661, 530 |
| County Seat | Ukiah |
| School District | Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District |
Soda Springs holds a quiet, amber-hued stillness where the landscape unfolds in a series of dry, sun-bleached slopes that define the character of the inland terrain. It lies 10.5 miles south-southwest of Ukiah, CA (from Ukiah, CA: bearing 214°T), and is situated 22.0 miles northwest of Cloverdale. Soda Creek carves a persistent, narrow path through the earth, its rhythmic flow providing the only constant sound against the hush of the midday heat. Beyond the immediate banks, the land rises toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Coast Ranges, which anchor the horizon in shades of bruised violet and slate gray. Five miles to the east, the waters of Fruit Lake reflect the sharp, unyielding clarity of the sky, while the nearby expanse of Bell Valley serves as a low, golden basin where the air hangs heavy with the scent of parched grasses and wild sage.
History lingers in the soil of Soda Springs, a residue of earlier arrivals who recognized the utility of the land long before the modern grid arrived. The local economy persists in a slow, deliberate cadence, tethered to the rhythms of the earth and the modest scale of regional trade that keeps the pulse of the place steady. Residents find a familiar sanctuary in the quiet reaches of Faulkner Park, a stretch of land that preserves the stillness of the region against the encroaching pace of the wider world. Life here demands a certain patience, as the golden light of late afternoon stretches shadows thin across the ground, illuminating the simple, enduring fiber of a place that prefers to remain largely undisturbed by the clamor of progress.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Soda Springs, California. Coordinates: 39.324788, -120.378665. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Soda Springs includes the ZIP code (96162, 95415, 93257), telephone area code (661, 530), county seat of Mendocino County (Ukiah), and school district assignment (Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |