Baker Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Baker Historic District, located in Baker City, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Contributing properties include the former Baker Hotel and St.”
Wikipedia article Baker Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Baker County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Irregular pattern along Main St. from Madison to Estes Sts., Baker, 97814
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. district
Census division. Baker City
National Register reference number. 78002277 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Baker Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,583 acres in total. 11 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
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Firearms and explosives use	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2014	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Vale District	FLAGSTAFF
21 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	not named
1 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Vale District	MP 311
7 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Vale District	DOOLEY MTN
5 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	ARCHERY RANGE
5 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	SHOULDA BEEN BIGGER
5 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Baker Unit	ELK CREEK
31 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GRIFFIN GULCH

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 82 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 82 workings within 5 miles of Baker Historic District: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Blue Mountain Lime Mill	Calcium	Producer
Gray Eagle	Antimony, Gold	Producer	Stibnite
Gray Eagle Mine	Antimony, Gold, Silver	Prospect	Cervantite, Stibiconite, Stibnite
Gray Eagle Mine	Antimony, Silver, Gold	Producer
Heston Site	Copper	Producer
Lucky Strike	Antimony, Gold, Copper	Prospect
Sam-O Spring	Geothermal	Producer
Coyote Peak Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Coyote Peak Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Flagstaff Sand Pit	Gold, Silver	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Baker County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Ed Rand House	0.2 miles	1981
Robert F. and Elizabeth Clark House	0.4 miles	1989
St. Elizabeth Hospital (Old)	0.5 miles	1989
Baker Municipal Natatorium	0.6 miles	1977
Churchill School	1.0 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002277 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baker County	All 14 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.