Baxter is an unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States.
The community sits at the confluence of Martin's Fork with Clover Fork to form the Cumberland River.Harlan, KY, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1954 (1977 rev.)
References
Further reading James S. Greene III. Major Silas Harlan: His Life and Times Baxter, Kentucky: 1963