Soap Lake

Soap Lake is a town of 1,600 people in of Washington State. The lake's naturally occurring foam gives its water a soapy appearance, and the lake's mineral-rich waters have a slick, soapy feel.
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  • Type: Village with 1,870 residents
  • Description: city in Grant County, Washington, United States
  • Also known as: Soap Lake, WA” and “Soap Lake, Washington
  • Postal code: 98851

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Lake
is a meromictic soda lake in the town of , Washington formed by the Missoula Floods at the foot of the . The lake gets its name from the naturally occurring foam that gives its water a soapy appearance, and because the lake's mineral-rich waters have a slick, soapy feel.

Soap Lake

Latitude
47.3893° or 47° 23′ 22″ north
Longitude
-119.4905° or 119° 29′ 26″ west
Population
1,870
Elevation
1,106 feet (337 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US SE3
Open location code
85V29GQ5+PR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150936978
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5811089
Wiki­data ID
Q592056
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Soap Lake” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: سوب ليك
  • Basque: Soap Lake
  • Bulgarian: Соуп Лейк
  • Catalan: Soap Lake
  • Cebuano: Soap Lake
  • Chechen: Соуп-лейк
  • Chinese: Soap Lake
  • Chinese: 皂湖
  • Chinese: 皂湖市
  • Croatian: Soap Lake
  • Danish: Soap Lake
  • Dutch: Soap Lake
  • Egyptian Arabic: سوب ليك
  • French: Soap Lake
  • German: Soap Lake
  • Gilaki: سوپ لیک (واشينگتن)
  • Gilaki: سوپ لیک
  • Haitian: Soap Lake, Washington
  • Haitian: Soap Lake
  • Hungarian: Soap Lake
  • Irish: Soap Lake
  • Italian: Soap Lake
  • Ladin: Soap Lake
  • Macedo-Romanian: Soap Lake
  • Malagasy: Soap Lake, Washington
  • Malagasy: Soap Lake
  • Min Nan Chinese: Soap Lake
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Soap Lake
  • Persian: سوپ لیک، واشینگتن
  • Persian: سوپ لیک
  • Polish: Soap Lake
  • Portuguese: Soap Lake
  • Russian: Соап-Лейк
  • Russian: Соп-Лейк
  • Serbian: Соуп Лејк
  • Serbo-Croatian: Soap Lake, Washington
  • Serbo-Croatian: Soap Lake
  • South Azerbaijani: سوپ لیک، واشینقتون
  • Spanish: Soap Lake (Washington)
  • Spanish: Soap Lake
  • Tatar: Соуп-лейк
  • Ukrainian: Соуп-лейк
  • Uzbek: Soap Lake
  • Volapük: Soap Lake
  • Welsh: Soap Lake, Washington
  • Welsh: Soap Lake

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Soap Lake”. Photo: Steven Pavlov, CC BY-SA 3.0.