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Baker is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in northeastern Texas County, in the Oklahoma Panhandle, just north of U.S. Route 64.

Baker sprang into existence in the summer and fall of 1926 as a child of the Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad, and it was named for Reuben F. Baker of Hooker, who sold the quarter-section of land the town was platted on.

Baker became a double railroad town in its infancy when the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad crossed through just three years after it was platted.

The town briefly went by the name Bakerburg after its post office opened in 1931, because another Oklahoma community already held the Baker post office name; it officially became Baker again in 1953.

Baker persevered through the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, and early settler G. W. Riffe was among the first to plant wheat in the former "No Man's Land" near the town.

The Riffe-Gilmore grain elevator in Baker has been operated by the same family since 1926, and two grain elevators still operate in the surrounding wheat and corn country.

Both the Baker Woodframe Elevator and the Baker Woodframe Grain Elevator are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The last Katy train left Baker around January 4, 1973, and after the Rock Island line's 1974 bankruptcy, the hauling of the area's wheat harvest shifted to trucks on U.S. Highway 64.

Baker is home to the remnants of the old Eureka school, whose teams were the Eureka Polar Bears; its children today attend Turpin Public Schools.

The 2020 census counted 37 residents in Baker living in 14 households across about one square mile, with a median age of 35.5 years.