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Baker County, Oregon
Baker County
is a
county
located in the
U.S. state
of
Oregon
. As of the
2010 census
, the population was 16,134. The
county seat
and largest city is
Baker City
. The county was split from the eastern part of
Wasco County
.
Union County
and
Malheur County
were set off from Baker County in 1864 and 1887 respectively. It
is named
for
Edward Dickinson Baker
, a senator from Oregon who was killed at
Ball's Bluff
, a battle of the
Civil War
in
Virginia
in 1861.
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