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Baker, Nevada

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Baker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89311. It stands on Lehman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Baker quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,312 feet above sea level.

Baker within White Pine County

On record in Baker

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Baker fell from 68 to 41 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201068
202041-27 (-40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Baker between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,218 acres in total. 25 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEly District OfficeLEHMAN
9 August 1998Naturalunder an acreGreat Basin National ParkCIRCLE M
4 August 2013Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeSHERMAN
27 August 1993Naturalunder an acreGreat Basin National ParkBONNIES
26 August 1993Naturalunder an acreGreat Basin National ParkCARMI
19 August 2017Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeMAHOGANY SPRING
19 August 1999Naturalunder an acreGreat Basin National ParkKIOUS
13 August 2012Natural29 acresEly District OfficeLEHMAN

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Baker: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Poljack ClaimLead, Silver, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Poljack ProspectGold, TungstenProspect1939, 1942

Every working recorded in White Pine County

Storms near this place

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baker in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014Debris FlowBaker$2,000A large debris flow occurred on the Hampton fire burn scar with debris flowing 4 miles into the valley below the fire burn area. A mesonet site about 5 miles away reported 0.90 inches of rain in 80 minutes. A private residence was impacted by the debris flow. Damages are estimated.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBaker-Station (MTHN2) Mather, Elevation 9268 ft.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBaker-Station (MTHN2) Mather Raws, Elevation 9268 feet.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBaker-Station (MTHN2) Mather Raws, Elevation 9268 feet.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindBaker-Station (MTHN2) Mather Raws, Elevation 9268 feet.
August 2021Heavy RainBaker-One and fifty-one hundreth inches of rain fell at DRI site (DNEP7), 2 miles west of Baker. Water was reported to be running onto an adjacent road in NV-488. Elevation 6035 feet.
August 2021Flash FloodBaker-Heavy rain was reported in the are with some estimates of 1-2 inches of rainfall. Law Enforcement reported several inches of water over US Highway 50 at mile marker 9. They also reported several inches of water across SR-488, 487, and US-6.
October 2018Heavy RainBaker-Mesonet Station BKRN2, Great Basin National Park CRN rainfall of 0.75 inches measured in 15 minutes.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindBaker-Thunderstorm winds knocked down power lines in Baker. Power was out through the night.
August 2003Flash FloodBaker-Flash floods closed highway 50 for over two hours five miles northeast of Baker. Mudslides caused closure of highway 50 near Sacramento Summit 18 miles northwest of Baker. Flash flooding on highway 93 twenty miles south of Majors Place caused a vehicle accident.
July 2003Flash FloodBaker-Heavy rains washed mud across road going into the Great Basin National Park.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBaker-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBaker-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White Pine County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
San Pedro (historical)12.2 miles15
Black Horse (historical)12.5 miles14
Osceola14.9 miles15
Hogum15.6 miles15
Shoshone18.9 miles9
Minerva19.2 miles9
Majors Place24.3 miles18
Cooper (historical)25.2 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BakerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2513075The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 855961. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.