High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Soda Lakes are two lakes located northwest of Fallon, Nevada. They occupy two basaltic maar volcanoes which may have erupted in the last 1500 years. The larger lake (called Soda Lake) is somewhat elongated, stretching 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) in length, while the smaller one (Little Soda Lake) is 200 meters (660 ft) across. According to an early study of Soda Lakes, Russell (1885) describes the Soda Lake basin as follows: