Wikipedia:West Baker, California

West Baker is a former populated place in Kern County, California that was the location of a borax mine, and located west of Baker, where another mine was operated.

It was located 4 mi northwest of Boron and 1.25 mi west of Baker, Kern County, California, at an elevation of 2447 feet (746 m).

The mine known as the "Suckow mine" opened in was taken over in 1935 by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and became known as the "West Baker mine." Borax was produced by the West Baker and Baker mines until the early 1950s. The West Baker area is now part of the Rio Tinto Borax Mine, an open-pit mine.