After the town of Soap Lake was incorporated nearby, the lake gradually took on the same name but was never officially changed. The Colville tribes, who spoke Salish, supported the name change ...

Soap Lake sits in central Washington at the foot of the Grand Coulee. This unusual 2-square-mile lake reaches 70 feet deep ...

“I went up to Soap Lake to kind of get support ... sagebrush ranchland that spans so much of Central Washington, including parts of the Colville Reservation,” Raymond said.