National Register of Historic Places listings in Baker County, Oregon
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This is a list of properties and districts in Baker County, Oregon
Baker County, Oregon
Baker County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is included in the 8 county definition of Eastern Oregon. It is named for Edward Dickinson Baker, a senator from Oregon who was killed at Ball's Bluff, a battle of the Civil War in Virginia in 1861. It was split from the eastern part...

 that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

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Current listings

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1 Antlers Guard Station
Antlers Guard Station
The Antlers Guard Station is a rustic cabin located in the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest in northeastern Oregon, United States. It was originally built to house fire crews assigned to patrol the surrounding National Forest. Since the 1990s, the United States Forest Service rents Antlers Guard...

Southeast of Whitney in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
44°38′00.23"N 118°16′45.06"W
Unity
Unity, Oregon
Unity is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States, located in the Burnt River Valley. The population was 131 at the 2000 census.-History:While the town was never platted, a post office was established in Unity in 1891...

2 Baker Historic District
Baker Historic District
The Baker Historic District, located in Baker City, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....

Along Main Street
44.77482°N 117.8314°W
Baker City
Baker City, Oregon
Baker City is a city in and the county seat of Baker County, Oregon, United States. It was named after Edward D. Baker. The population was 9,828 at the 2010 census.-History:...

3 Baker Municipal Natatorium
Baker Municipal Natatorium
The Baker Municipal Natatorium, located in Baker City, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....

image pending 2470 Grove Street
44.78133°N 117.8259°W
Baker City
Baker City, Oregon
Baker City is a city in and the county seat of Baker County, Oregon, United States. It was named after Edward D. Baker. The population was 9,828 at the 2010 census.-History:...

4 Churchill School
Churchill School
The Churchill School, located in Baker City, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....

image pending 3451 Broadway Street
44°46′39.39"N 117°50′57.35"W
Baker City
Baker City, Oregon
Baker City is a city in and the county seat of Baker County, Oregon, United States. It was named after Edward D. Baker. The population was 9,828 at the 2010 census.-History:...

5 Robert F. and Elizabeth Clark House
Robert F. and Elizabeth Clark House
The Robert F. and Elizabeth Clark House, located in Baker City, Oregon, is a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places....

image pending 1522 Washington Avenue
44.77711°N 117.8237°W
Baker City
Baker City, Oregon
Baker City is a city in and the county seat of Baker County, Oregon, United States. It was named after Edward D. Baker. The population was 9,828 at the 2010 census.-History:...

6 James O. Maxwell Farmstead
James O. Maxwell Farmstead
The James O. Maxwell Farmstead, located in Haines, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....

image pending Muddy Creek Road, Route 2, Box 82
44.93802°N 117.9939°W
Haines
Haines, Oregon
Haines is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States. The population was 426 at the 2000 census.-History:Haines was platted in 1885 or 1886 along the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company rail line, having been a stage stop before then.-Geography:...

7 Oregon Commercial Company Building
Oregon Commercial Company Building
The Oregon Commercial Company Building, in Huntington, Baker County, Oregon, United States, was built in 1890.The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992....

image pending 40-50 E. Washington Street
44°21′04.31"N 117°16′03.20"W
Huntington
Huntington, Oregon
Huntington is a city in Baker County, on the eastern border of Oregon, United States. It is located on the Snake River and along Interstate 84 and U.S. Route 30. The population was 515 at the 2000 census.- History:...

8 Ed Rand House
Ed Rand House
The Ed Rand House, located in Baker City, Oregon, is a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places....

image pending 1700 4th Street
44.77457°N 117.8344°W
Baker City
Baker City, Oregon
Baker City is a city in and the county seat of Baker County, Oregon, United States. It was named after Edward D. Baker. The population was 9,828 at the 2010 census.-History:...

9 St. Elizabeth Hospital (Old) image pending 2365 4th Street
44.7805°N 117.8344°W
Baker City
Baker City, Oregon
Baker City is a city in and the county seat of Baker County, Oregon, United States. It was named after Edward D. Baker. The population was 9,828 at the 2010 census.-History:...

10 Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge
Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge
The Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge is a historic gold dredge located in Sumpter, Oregon, United States. The dredge was built during the gold rush that consumed most of the western states throughout the mid-19th century. Gold was discovered in Sumpter in 1862, but the advent of using a large machine to...

Southwest of Sumpter near Cracker Creek
44.74155°N 118.2038°W
Sumpter
Sumpter, Oregon
Sumpter is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States. The population was 171 at the 2000 census. Sumpter is named after Fort Sumter by its founders.- History :...

Gold dredge
Gold dredge
A gold dredge is a placer mining machine that extracts gold from sand, gravel, and dirt using water and mechanical methods.The original gold dredges were large, multi-story machines built in the first half of the 1900s....

 used in placer mining
Placer mining
Placer mining is the mining of alluvial deposits for minerals. This may be done by open-pit or by various surface excavating equipment or tunneling equipment....

 along the Powder River
Powder River (Oregon)
The Powder River is a tributary of the Snake River, approximately long, in northeast Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of the Columbia Plateau on the eastern side of the Blue Mountains...

 beginning in the 1930s, representing a late, highly-mechanized phase of gold mining in Eastern Oregon.
11 Sumpter Valley Railway Historic District
Sumpter Valley Railway
The Sumpter Valley Railway is a heritage railroad located in Baker County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built on a right-of-way used by the original railway of the same name, it carries excursion trains on a roughly route between McEwen and Sumpter. The railroad has two steam locomotives and...

Roughly between Baker and Prairie City starting near the McEwen station site and west to the Dixie Pass area
44.62038°N 118.3352°W
Baker City
Baker City, Oregon
Baker City is a city in and the county seat of Baker County, Oregon, United States. It was named after Edward D. Baker. The population was 9,828 at the 2010 census.-History:...

 to Prairie City
Prairie City, Oregon
Prairie City is a city in Grant County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,080 at the 2000 census. The community was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on February 23, 1891.-History:...

12 Superintendent's House
Superintendent's House (Sumpter, Oregon)
The Superintendent's House, also known as the Oliver C. and L. Mae Wright House, is a house located in Sumpter, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places....

image pending 271 Mill Street
44.74403°N 118.2019°W
Sumpter
Sumpter, Oregon
Sumpter is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States. The population was 171 at the 2000 census. Sumpter is named after Fort Sumter by its founders.- History :...

13 Unity Ranger Station
Unity Ranger Station
The Unity Ranger Station is a United States Forest Service compound consisting of five buildings and a lookout tower in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest of northeastern Oregon. For many years, it was the administrative headquarters for the Unity Ranger District. It is located in the small...

44.43678°N 118.188°W Unity
Unity, Oregon
Unity is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States, located in the Burnt River Valley. The population was 131 at the 2000 census.-History:While the town was never platted, a post office was established in Unity in 1891...

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