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1901 Map of Baker

Name: 1901 Topographic Map of Baker
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1934
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1934

About this map

Baker serves as the central hub of this Eastern Oregon landscape, where the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company tracks intersect with the narrow-gauge Sumpter Valley Railroad. This turn-of-the-century environment is defined by its transit corridors and extractive industry, with the iconic Oregon Trail winding through the southeastern terrain near Pleasant Valley. To the east, the Virtue Flat district reveals the region's mining heritage through the Flagstaff Mine and Virtue Mine.

Agricultural life is clustered in the Baker Valley and Lower Powder Valley, supported by a network of creeks and sloughs like Baldock Slough. Small settlements and rail stops such as Haines, Wingville, and Pocahontas provide specific points of interest for genealogists tracing early families. The transition from the valley floor to the high country is marked by the Whitman National Forest boundary, where the terrain rises toward peaks like Magpie Pk. and the deeply cut Powder River Canyon.