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Baker City, Oregon

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Baker City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97814. It stands on Sutton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Baker City quadrangle. 10,099 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,451 feet above sea level.

Baker City within Baker County

On record in Baker City

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Baker City grew from 9,860 to 10,099 between 2000 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
20009,860
20109,828-32 (-0%)
202010,099+271 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Baker City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,564 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Firearms and explosives use1

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
7 September 2014Firearms and explosives useunder an acreVale DistrictFLAGSTAFF
21 September 1992Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National Forestnot named
1 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreVale DistrictMP 311
7 August 2005Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictDOOLEY MTN
5 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestARCHERY RANGE
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestSHOULDA BEEN BIGGER
5 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use20 acresBaker UnitELK CREEK
31 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined27 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGRIFFIN GULCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 81 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 81 workings within 5 miles of Baker City: 43 past producers, 17 producers, 8 unknowns, 7 occurrences. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Stone. 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
Blue Mountain Lime MillCalciumProducer
Gray EagleAntimony, GoldProducerStibnite
Gray Eagle MineAntimony, Gold, SilverProspectCervantite, Stibiconite, Stibnite
Gray Eagle MineAntimony, Silver, GoldProducer
Heston SiteCopperProducer
Lucky StrikeAntimony, Gold, CopperProspect
Sam-O SpringGeothermalProducer
Coyote Peak QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Coyote Peak QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Flagstaff Sand PitGold, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Baker County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baker City in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 heavy rain. 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
May 1996Heavy RainBaker City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baker 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
Estes (historical)0.9 miles15
Wingville6.4 miles15
Pocahontas (historical)7.8 miles15
Auburn (historical)7.9 miles16
Encina9.5 miles17
Haines10.9 miles14
Pleasant Valley12.8 miles17
Rock Creek14.4 miles13

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 Baker CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1152219The 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 1167694. 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.