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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Baker. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Baker to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Baker, please Contact Us.

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Baker (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Baker. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Although our information shows that the community of Baker is historic, it would have been located within present day Boyd County.

To see how the shape of Nebraska's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Boyd County: Holt, Keya Paha, Knox, Rock, Charles Mix (SD) & Gregory (SD).

Below are the counties that are near Baker. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Baker:

  • Boyd County     (The home county of Baker)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baker, with the one closest to Baker listed first.
    • Anoka
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anoka
      • Anoka is located in Boyd County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6 people
    • Spencer
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Butte
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Gross
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gross
      • Gross is located in Boyd County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2 people
    • Bristow
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Lynch
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Naper
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Monowi
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monowi
      • Monowi is located in Boyd County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1 people
  • Holt County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baker, with the one closest to Baker listed first.
    • Dustin
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dustin
      • Dustin is located in Holt County
    • Redbird
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redbird
      • Redbird is located in Holt County
    • Cleveland ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cleveland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
      • Cleveland is located in Holt County
  • Knox County
    • Verdel
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verdel
      • Verdel is located in Knox County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 30 people
  • Charles Mix County (SD)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baker, with the one closest to Baker listed first.
    • Pickstown
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickstown
      • Pickstown is located in Charles Mix County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 224 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pickstown <2>
    • Marty
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marty
      • Marty is located in Charles Mix County (SD)
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 402 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marty <2>
    • Lake Andes
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lake Andes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Andes
      • Lake Andes is located in Charles Mix County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 815 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lake Andes <2>
    • Greenwood
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
      • Greenwood is located in Charles Mix County (SD)
      • Estimated population in 2014: 7 people
    • Geddes
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Geddes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geddes
      • Geddes is located in Charles Mix County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 207 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Geddes <2>
    • Ravinia
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ravinia have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravinia
      • Ravinia is located in Charles Mix County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 64 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ravinia <2>
    • Wagner
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wagner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
      • Wagner is located in Charles Mix County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,537 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wagner <2>
    • Dante
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dante have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dante
      • Dante is located in Charles Mix County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dante <2>
    • Platte
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Platte
      • Platte is located in Charles Mix County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,257 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Platte <2>
  • Douglas County (SD)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baker, with the one closest to Baker listed first.
    • Joubert
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joubert
      • Joubert is located in Douglas County (SD)
      • Estimated population in 2014: 126 people
    • New Holland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Armour
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Armour have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armour
      • Armour is located in Douglas County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 666 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Armour <2>
  • Gregory County (SD)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baker, with the one closest to Baker listed first.
    • Fort Randall
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Randall have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Randall
      • Fort Randall is located in Gregory County (SD)
      • Estimated population in 2014: 2,135 people
    • Fairfax
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfax
      • Fairfax is located in Gregory County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 117 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fairfax <2>
    • Bonesteel
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • East Gregory
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for East Gregory have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Gregory
      • East Gregory is located in Gregory County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 182 people
    • Saint Charles
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Herrick
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Herrick have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herrick
      • Herrick is located in Gregory County (SD)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 103 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Herrick <2>

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Baker, see our County-by-County Page for Baker.

Newspapers Published in Baker ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 55 newspapers that have been published in the area around Baker.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Baker, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Baker.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Baker:

Cemeteries Near Baker ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Baker.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Baker covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Baker, with the one closest to Baker listed first.

  • Old Settlers Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Settlers Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Settlers Cemetery
  • Immanuel Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Immanuel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Immanuel Cemetery
  • Bethelhem Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bethelhem Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethelhem Cemetery
  • Lutheran Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lutheran Cemetery
  • Randall Valley Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Randall Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Randall Valley Cemetery
  • Butte Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Butte Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<4> to the southeast of Butte.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Butte Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #100443 <5>
  • St.s Peter and Paul Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St.s Peter and Paul Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<4> to the southeast of Butte.
    • The St.s Peter and Paul Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Butte Catholic Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St.s Peter and Paul Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #101412 <5>
  • St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
  • Old Immanuel Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Immanuel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Immanuel Cemetery
  • Trinity Lutheran Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery
  • Immanuel Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Immanuel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Immanuel Cemetery
  • Bohemian Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bohemian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bohemian Cemetery
  • Continue List   (64 more) ...
    • Union Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Union Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Union Cemetery
    • St. Marys Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
    • Gross Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gross Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gross Cemetery

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.

While we didn't find Baker in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Baker.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Baker, with the one closest to Baker listed first.

  • Butte
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Spencer
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Bristow
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Wheeler ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wheeler have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler
    • Wheeler is located in Charles Mix County (SD)
  • Paddock
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Paddock have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paddock
    • Paddock is located in Holt County
  • Catalpa ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Catalpa have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catalpa
    • Catalpa is located in Holt County
  • Lynch
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Greenwood
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
    • Greenwood is located in Charles Mix County (SD)
    • Estimated population in 2014: 7 people
  • Dustin
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dustin
    • Dustin is located in Holt County
  • Platte
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Platte
    • Platte is located in Charles Mix County (SD)
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,257 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Platte <2>
  • Dorsey
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dorsey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorsey
    • Dorsey is located in Holt County

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Baker. See our List of 1890's Communities around Baker.

The official website for State of Nebraska: www.nebraska.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Baker, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Baker) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Baker. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9889, Longitude: -98.7309       In this case, the coordinates for Baker have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.




 

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