Baker Mountain (West Virginia)

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Baker Mountain
Elevation	617 metres (2,024 feet)
Location	West Virginia, USA
Range	Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
Coordinates	39°09′45″N, 78°33′25″W
Topo map	USGS Yellow Spring
Easiest route	hike

Baker Mountain is a mountain ridge in southeastern Hampshire County, West Virginia. The mountain runs southwest northeast between Yellow Spring and the Hardy County line. Baker Mountain is flanked to its east by the Cacapon River with West Virginia Route 259 running parallel between the two. Its forests were once used as a major source of timber for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's rail ties. For this reason, the Winchester and Western Railroad was constructed through the Capon Valley in the 1920s to haul the timber harvested in the region to Winchester, Virginia for rail tie production. The communities of Capon Lake and Intermont lie at the foot of Baker Mountain on the Cacapon.

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	Hampshire County, West Virginia
Municipalities	Capon Bridge | Romney
Unincorporated communities	Augusta | Barnes Mill | Bloomery | Blues Beach | Bubbling Spring | Capon Lake | Capon Springs | Capon Springs Station | Cold Stream | Creekvale | Davis Ford | Delray | Dillons Run | Donaldson | Forks of Cacapon | Frenchburg | Glebe | Good | Grace | Green Spring | Hainesville | Hanging Rock | Hanging Rocks | Higginsville | High View | Hooks Mills | Hoy | Intermont | Jericho | Junction | Kirby | Largent | Lehew | Levels | Little Cacapon | Loom | Mechanicsburg | Millbrook | Millen | Millesons Mill | Neals Run | Nero | North River Mills | Okonoko | Pancake | Pin Oak | Pleasant Dale | Points | Purgitsville | Rada | Raven Rocks | Ridgedale | Ruckman | Sector | Sedan | Shanks | Shiloh | Slanesville | South Branch Depot | Springfield | Three Churches | Vance | Vanderlip | Wappocomo | Yellow Spring
Natural features and areas	Baker Mountain | Bear Garden Mountain | Bearwallow Creek | Big Run | Cacapon Mountain | Cacapon River | Capon Springs Run | Castle Mountain | Caudy's Castle | Cooper Mountain | The Devil's Nose | Dillons Run | Edwards Run | Edwards Run Wildlife Management Area | Fort Mill Ridge Wildlife Management Area | George Washington National Forest | Grassy Lick Run | Great North Mountain | Green Spring Run | High Knob | Ice Mountain | Little Cacapon Mountain | Little Cacapon River | Mechanicsburg Gap | Mill Branch | Mill Creek | Mill Creek Mountain | Mill Run | Nathaniel Mountain | Nathaniel Mountain Wildlife Management Area | Patterson Creek Mountain | North Branch Potomac River | North River | North River Mountain | Potomac River | Short Mountain | Short Mountain Wildlife Management Area | Sideling Hill | South Branch Mountain | South Branch Potomac River | South Branch Wildlife Management Area | Spring Gap Mountain | Tearcoat Creek | The Trough | Timber Ridge | Wacousta Hill