Baker Missouri Map

About Baker, Missouri

Baker is a locality in Stoddard County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 3. The population density is 5.7 people per km². Baker is located at 36.7728°N, 89.7643°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Baker is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 63846.

Baker emerges from the low, stubborn rise of the Missouri landscape where the Upper Castor River carves a sluggish, silt-heavy path through the heavy clay soil. It lies 12.1 miles southwest of Sikeston, MO (from Sikeston, MO: bearing 234°T), and is situated 10.8 miles east of Dexter. The horizon is defined not by the dramatic peaks of Cane Ridge, which loom in a hazy, distant blue ten miles to the west, but by the quiet persistence of timbered hollows and expansive, sun-bleached fields of corn and soy. In the humid heat of midsummer, the light thickens around the riverbanks, casting long, bruised shadows that stretch toward the timberline as the cicadas begin their rhythmic, metallic drone. Baker remains a place defined by this slow, seasonal pulse, where the air smells perpetually of damp earth and the distant, sweet decay of drying stalks.

Agriculture anchors the local economy, a legacy of families who first broke this ground to plant roots in the fertile, unforgiving soil. Residents often traverse the short distance to Holly Ridge Conservation Area to hunt or walk the dense, tangled thickets, finding a solitude that feels as old as the territory itself. While the bustle of larger regional centers remains a distant abstraction, the pace here is dictated by the maintenance of machinery and the slow, deliberate turning of the harvest calendar. On quiet evenings, the stillness is broken only by the movement of the Upper Castor River against the limestone banks, or the occasional shift of wind coming off the water toward Whitten Lake, four miles away, where the surface reflects the darkening sky with the clarity of a polished mirror.

About This Baker Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Baker, Missouri. Coordinates: 36.772832, -89.764251. 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 (63846), telephone area code (816), county seat of Stoddard County (Bloomfield), and school district assignment (Richland R-I 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.