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Baker County, Florida

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1861formed

28,259pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Sanderson, Glen St. Mary, Macclenny.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Florida is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Baker titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Burnsed Blockhouse	Sanderson	Building	1973
Glen Saint Mary Nurseries Company	Glen St. Mary	District	2003
Old Baker County Courthouse	Macclenny	Building	1986
Olustee Battlefield	Olustee	Site	1970

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Baker was formed in 1861 (1861-02-08) from New River.

BAKER created from NEW RIVER (now BRADFORD).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Baker County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,325	2,303	4,516	5,622	6,510	6,313	7,363	15,289	22,259	28,259

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

8 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cedar Creek Cemetery	30.28967	-82.279
Dyess Cemetery	30.20383	-82.43043
Mantown Cemetery	30.24801	-82.16594
Monument Cemetery	30.21241	-82.3905
Sanderson Cemetery	30.25384	-82.25983
South Prong Cemetery	30.20356	-82.25372
Turner Cemetery	30.33677	-82.23015
Woodlawn Cemetery	30.25773	-82.13289

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Okeafenoke Swamp	30.1669	-82.41651

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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