Welcome to Baker County! Adopt Me!! Website updated with new data January 15, 2010 Hi, I'm Shauna Williams host for Oregon Trails and Polk County. As you can see above, this county needs adopting. Are you interested? Check out what it means to be a volunteer here. Until we can find a new host I will add any contributions that are sent to me. If I have time I will also try to add new data! Please look around, consider adopting and send in any data you would like to share!   "Baker County was created from part of Wasco County in 1862. It was named in honor of Edward Baker, one of Oregon's first senators and a colonel in the Union Army. Baker had been killed at the Battle of Balls Bluff in 1861. In 1864 Union County was created from the northern portion of the county. In 1887 Malheur County was created from the southern portion of the county. The boundaries were adjusted for the last time in 1901 when the area between the Powder River and the Wallowa Mountains, known as the Panhandle, was returned to Baker County." ---Oregon Blue Book
An Illustrated history of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties   Cemeteries   Census Death Records Mailing List Marriages Military Miscellaneous Newspapers Resource Links Towns Updates
Surrounding Counties: Grant     Malheur     Union     Wallowa

 

Wagon Photo - Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives. (Photo No. bak0083)

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