Baker City

Baker City, city, seat (1868) of Baker county, northeastern Oregon, U.S. It is situated along the Powder River, in Baker Valley, between the Blue Mountains (west) and the Wallowa Mountains (east). Lying on the old Oregon Trail and settled during the Oregon gold rush (1861–62), it was laid out in 1865 and named for U.S. Senator Edward D. Baker; developing as a service centre, by 1900 Baker City was the largest settlement between Portland, Oregon,...