[2] Soda Springs is located 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Donner Pass.

The Soda Springs Mountain Resort is located just off Highway 80 near the Donner Summit.

[4] The Summit Valley post office opened in 1870, changed its name to Soda Springs in 1875, and closed in 1881.

[4] Tinker was a "rough, hard-driving, hard-drinking teamster" who hauled freight between the mines on Forest Hill Divide and Soda Springs.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 0.3 square miles (0.9 km2), all of it land Soda Springs has a dry-summer continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dsb) that is characterized by warm, dry summers, and cold, extremely snowy winters.

There were 136 housing units at an average density of 400.6 per square mile (154.7/km2), of which 21 (51.2%) were owner-occupied, and 20 (48.8%) were occupied by renters.

[11] Federally, Soda Springs is in California's 1st congressional district, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa.