City of Baker Location in East Baton Rouge Parish and the state of Louisiana.
Location in East Baton Rouge Parish and the state of Louisiana.
Baker is positioned in Louisiana Baker - Baker Parish East Baton Rouge Baker is a small town/city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States, and a part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.
It is the fourth-largest town/city in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Baker is positioned north of the center of East Baton Rouge Parish at 30 35 8 N 91 9 26 W (30.585637, -91.157096). It is bordered to the north by Zachary and to the south by Baton Rouge.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Baker has a total region of 8.3 square miles (21.5 km2), all land. Louisiana Highway 19 runs through the center of Baker, dominant north 4 miles (6 km) to the center of Zachary and south 5 miles (8 km) to U.S.
Downtown Baton Rouge is 11 miles (18 km) south of Baker.
Louisiana Highway 67 passes through the easterly part of Baker, dominant north 22 miles (35 km) to Clinton and south 9 miles (14 km) into the center of Baton Rouge.
The United States Postal Service operates the Baker Post Office. The Baker Buffalo Festival is held every year in Baker on the last full weekend in September.
Baker inhabitants are zoned to the City of Baker School System.
Baker High School is the city's high school.
Unincorporated areas with Baker addresses are inside the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools.
East Baton Rouge Parish Library operates the Baker Branch, positioned athwart from Baker High School.
The library opened in Miss Angie Williams' Tea Room on June 19, 1941 and later moved to a school building in 1955, a third building building, and then the Baker Masonic Lodge on July 20, 1959.
Baker is home to the 926th MAC (mobility augmentation company) which is part of the 769th Engineer Battalion (combat) headquartered in Baton Rouge.
Ossie Brown, who served as East Baton Rouge Parish precinct attorney from 1972 1984, interval up in Baker and graduated from Baker High School.
While a student there, he composed the Baker High alma mater A 1964 Baker High School alumnus, Jim Mitchell, served as judge of the Louisiana 30th Judicial District Court in Leesville from 2009 until his death in 2015. Former Louisiana State Senator Mike Cross was the mayor of Baker from 1976 1981, having been preceded and succeeded in the latter position by Norman E.
Heine's successor, Bobby Simpson, a Republican, became the East Baton Rouge mayor-president in 2001.
Republican former Louisiana State Representative Tony Perkins resided in Baker until he relocated to Washington, D.C., to head the Family Research Council.
Dumas, the East Baton Rouge Parish mayor-president from 1965 to 1980, was from Baker, where he relocated after World War II to play semi-professional baseball.
Hayes, the first Louisiana insurance commissioner, was an East Baton Rouge Parish precinct attorney and judge who resided in Baker at the time of his death in 2002.
Barbara West Carpenter, the dean of global relations at Southern University, is the District 63 state representative for East Baton Rouge Parish.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Baker city, Louisiana".
East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
"Baker Branch Library 3501 Groom Rd., Baker, LA 70714" City of Baker official website City of Baker School System Municipalities and communities of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States
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