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Baker California Map

Explore Baker, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Baker, California

How to Use This Baker, California Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Baker, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Baker.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Baker
State	California (CA)
County	Kern County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	35.276918
Longitude	-116.071735
Population	442
Density	63.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	93516, 92309
Area Code	760, 909
County Seat	Bakersfield
School District	Baker Valley Unified School District

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Shadow Valley Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — locality lies within
Soda Mountains Expansion Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.2 mi, 269° W
Mojave National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 0.5 mi, 090° E · 1.5M acres
Soda Mountains Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 2.2 mi, 341° N · 85k acres
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 2.5 mi, 063° NE
Mojave Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 2.5 mi, 185° S · 784k acres
Mojave Desert Land Trust (Conservation Area) — 5.3 mi, 108° E
Francis Marion Borax Smith (Monument) — 13.3 mi, 194° S
Mojave Trails National Monument (National Monument) — 16.1 mi, 181° S · 1.8M acres
Mojave Megaphone (Public Artwork) — 20.0 mi, 201° S
Buried Boxcars (Historic Ruins) — 21.6 mi, 220° SW
Mojave phone booth (Monument) — 21.9 mi, 088° E
Death Valley National Park (National Park) — 27.6 mi, 333° NW · 3.4M acres
Mojave Memorial Cross (Monument) — 29.5 mi, 085° E
Trail To Dunes (Viewpoint) — 35.3 mi, 137° SE
Original Tecopa Town Site (Historic Ruins) — 36.1 mi, 357° N
China Ranch Date Farm (Attraction) — 36.8 mi, 349° N
Camp Cady Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 38.5 mi, 232° SW
Goldstone Museum (Museum) — 41.4 mi, 272° W
Tecopa Hot Springs Resort Yaga Labyrinth (Attraction) — 41.8 mi, 348° N
Ivanpah Lake (Attraction) — 42.2 mi, 063° NE
Desperado (Attraction) — 45.2 mi, 059° NE
Carolee Theatre (Cinema) — 45.2 mi, 059° NE
Toiyabe National Forest (National Forest) — 52.8 mi, 034° NE · 3.9M acres
Daggett Museum (Museum) — 54.1 mi, 239° SW
Skyline Drive-In (Cinema) — 57.3 mi, 244° SW
Western America Railroad Museum (Museum) — 59.7 mi, 245° SW
Route 66 "Mother Road" Museum (Museum) — 59.7 mi, 245° SW

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