Baker California Map

About Baker, California

Baker is a locality in Kern County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 442. The population density is 63.5 people per km². Baker is located at 35.2769°N, 116.0717°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 93516, 92309.

Baker presents itself as a sudden, sun-bleached punctuation mark upon an expansive, arid basin where the horizon stretches thin and pale under an uncompromising sky. It lies 18.9 miles east-southeast of California City, CA (from California City, CA: bearing 108°T), and is situated 3.1 miles north-northwest of Boron. The landscape around Baker consists of parched, windswept earth and scrub-brush plains that hold the heat long after the sun has retreated, creating a shimmering, restless atmosphere in the late afternoon. While the distant, jagged silhouette of the Sierra Nevada remains a mere suggestion on the far horizon, the immediate terrain is defined by the stark, quiet vastness of Peerless Valley and the nearby, muted green of Boron Park. Even the distant flow of Cache Creek or the stillness of Central Park Lake offer little relief to this thirsty geography, which relies on the stubborn persistence of desert flora to break the monotony of the beige and gray expanse.

Baker functions as a vital artery for the steady stream of travelers traversing the Mojave, its economy tethered to the rhythm of the road and the necessity of the roadside stop. History here is written in the endurance of those who carved a life from the dust, transforming a remote transit point into a place of singular, isolated character. The town serves as a beacon for the weary, where the light at dusk turns the surrounding basin into a bruised, violet stillness, momentarily softening the hard edges of the industrial artifacts and service stations that define the local silhouette. Life in Baker moves with the deliberate, unforced pace of a place that understands its own isolation, existing as a resilient outpost where the wind carries the dry, ancient scent of the high desert across the pavement.

About This Baker Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Baker, California. Coordinates: 35.276918, -116.071735. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Baker includes the ZIP code (93516, 92309), telephone area code (760, 909), county seat of Kern County (Bakersfield), and school district assignment (Baker Valley Unified School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.