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Nearest Communities to Baker City,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Baker City, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Baker City:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to 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 north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Baker City.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Baker City is located in Baker County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Baker County: Adams (ID), Grant, Malheur, Union, Wallowa & Washington.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 52 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Baker City. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Baker County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Baker City (which is Baker County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Baker City

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Baker County   (where Baker City resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.bakercountyor.gov/
    • County Seat for Baker:   Baker City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Baker City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Baker City.
      • Estes ‑ Historic
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
        • Estes is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estes
      • Wing
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Wing is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wing
      • Quartz
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Quartz is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quartz
      • Wingville
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Wingville is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wingville
      • Auburn ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Pocahontas ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Salisbury
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Salisbury is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salisbury
      • Encina
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Encina is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Encina
      • Haines
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Rogers
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Rogers is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogers
      • Pleasant Valley
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Pleasant Valley is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
      • Erwin ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Erwin is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erwin
      • Continue List   (23 more) ...
  • Grant County
  • Malheur County
    • County Website:   https://www.malheurco.org/
    • County Seat for Malheur:   Vale
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Baker City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Baker City.
      • Eldorado
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Eldorado is located in Malheur County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eldorado
      • Malheur City ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Humboldt Basin ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Humboldt Basin is located in Malheur County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humboldt Basin
      • Cake ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Cake is located in Malheur County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cake
      • Amelia
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Amelia is located in Malheur County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amelia
  • Union County
    • County Website:   https://unioncountyor.gov/
    • County Seat for Union:   La Grande
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Baker City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Baker City.
      • North Powder
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Pondosa
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Pondosa is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pondosa
      • Medical Springs
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Sago
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Sago is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sago
      • Telocaset
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Telocaset is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telocaset
      • Crooks
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Crooks is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crooks
      • Camp Carson ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Camp Carson is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Carson
      • Union Junction
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Union Junction is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Junction
      • Union
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Baker City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.

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 larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.

Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know.
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