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Baker County is a county in Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,876.[1] The county seat and only city is Newton.[2] The county was created December 12, 1825 from the eastern portion of Early County by an act of the Georgia General Assembly and is named for Colonel John Baker, a hero of the American Revolutionary War.[3]

Baker County is included in the Albany, GA metropolitan statistical area.

The Baker County Courthouse (Georgia) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Three other properties in Newton are also listed on the register: Notchaway Baptist Church and Cemetery, Pine Bloom Plantation, and Tarver Plantation.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of Шаблон:Convert, of which Шаблон:Convert is land and Шаблон:Convert (2.1%) is water.[4]

The eastern half of Baker County is located in the Lower Flint River sub-basin of the ACF River Basin (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin). The western half of the county is located in the Ichawaynochaway Creek sub-basin of the same ACF River Basin.[5]

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Demographics

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Baker County, Georgia – Demographic Profile
(NH = Non-Hispanic)
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.
Race / Ethnicity Pop 2010[7] Pop 2020[8] % 2010 % 2020
White alone (NH) 1,642 1,514 47.58% 52.64%
Black or African American alone (NH) 1,600 1,128 46.36% 39.22%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) 9 1 0.26% 0.03%
Asian alone (NH) 24 18 0.70% 0.63%
Pacific Islander alone (NH) 2 0 0.06% 0.00%
Some Other Race alone (NH) 1 2 0.03% 0.07%
Mixed Race/Multi-Racial (NH) 28 70 0.81% 2.43%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 145 143 4.20% 4.97%
Total 3,451 2,876 100.00% 100.00%

As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 2,876 people, 1,425 households, and 788 families residing in the county.

Education

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Baker County School System school building

Baker County School System operates public schools.[9]

Politics

Although Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon carried it in 1964 and 1972, American Independent candidate George Wallace won the county in 1968 as a third-party candidate. Baker County is historically Democratic. In 1956, Adlai Stevenson received over 96 percent of the county's vote.[10] The county voted Democratic consistently from 1976 until 2012, but by closer margins than in 1956, and the county shifted more to the right throughout the early 2000s. In 2008 Barack Obama won with just 50.1 percent to John McCain's 49.1 percent,[11] while Donald Trump won the county by almost ten percent in 2016, despite declining on Mitt Romney’s performance statewide. Brian Kemp repeated this feat by double digits in the 2018 gubernatorial race, and in 2020, Trump won Baker County by nearly sixteen percentage points.

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