During the 1920s and 1930s, up to 100 tents lined the harbor, occupied by hand-trollers. The first store was built in 1941, and a post office opened in 1942. In 1955, Point Baker was withdrawn from the Tongass National Forest. Culture Point Baker is a small non-Native fishing community. There is no community school in Point Baker.
Children are home-schooled with correspondence courses.
Subsistence and recreational food sources include deer, salmon, halibut, shrimp and crab. Transportation Point Baker is accessible by float plane, helicopter, barge and skiff. A State-owned seaplane base and heliport serves scheduled and chartered flights from Ketchikan. The community has a dock and boat harbor. Barge service is available from Wrangell.