Baker, Montana
| Baker, Montana | |
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| City | |
Fallon County Library
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| Nickname(s): "Friendly City" | |
 Location of Baker, Montana |
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| Coordinates: 46°21′53″N 104°16′30″W / 46.36472°N 104.27500°WCoordinates: 46°21′53″N 104°16′30″W / 46.36472°N 104.27500°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Montana |
| County | Fallon |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.07 sq mi (2.77 km2) |
| • Land | 0.97 sq mi (2.51 km2) |
| • Water | 0.10 sq mi (0.26 km2) |
| Elevation | 2,936 ft (895 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 1,741 |
| • Estimate (2015) | 2,011 |
| • Density | 1,794.8/sq mi (693.0/km2) |
| Time zone | Mountain (MST) (UTC-7) |
| • Summer (DST) | MDT (UTC-6) |
| ZIP codes | 59313, 59354 |
| Area code(s) | 406 |
| FIPS code | 30-03475 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0802008 |
| Website | http://www.bakermt.com/ |
Baker is a city in and the county seat of Fallon County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,741 at the 2010 census.
It was named after A. G. Baker, an engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.
Baker was built along the transcontinental rail line of the Milwaukee Road near where the railroad created a lake to supply water to its steam locomotives. The city was known as Lorraine for a brief time before being renamed in honor of Milwaukee Road engineer A.G. Baker. A successful Milwaukee Land Company campaign to attract homesteaders to the area allowed the city to grow and serve a large community of dryland farmers. Additional growth occurred following the 1912 discovery of oil and natural gas deposits nearby.
In 2014, Baker was described as "a busy, noisy, traffic-jammed, bursting-at-the-seams boomtown on the edge of the oil fields." On June 11, 2016 an EF-3 Tornado struck Baker destroying several houses and damaging dozens more, killing multiple horses in the area and injuring six people.
Baker is located at 46°21′53″N 104°16′30″W / 46.36472°N 104.27500°W (46.364817, −104.275089).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.07 square miles (2.77 km2), of which 0.97 square miles (2.51 km2) is land and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km2) is water.
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