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Baxter

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ250143 ↗
Source-derived summary

Baxter may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

Baxter Building, in the Marvel Comics universe

Baxter Stockman, in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Baxter, a character in the animated web series Hazbin Hotel

Mr Baxter, a character in The Adventures of Tintin

Film and television

Baxter!, a 1973 British film starring Britt Ekland

Baxter (film), a 1989 French dark comedy film featuring a thinking dog named "Baxter"

The Baxter, a 2005 romantic comedy

The Baxters, a TV sitcom 1979–1981

Baxter (TV series), 2010–2011

The Baxters (2024 TV series)

Music

Baxter (electronica band), a Swedish electronica band

Baxter, an album by the above band

Baxter (punk band), an American post-hardcore band

.baxter., an album by the above band

Baxter, a 2000 album in which various New Zealand musicians set 12 of James K. Baxter's poems to music

Businesses and organizations

Baxters, a British food processing company

Baxter Aviation, former Canadian airline

Baxter's Coaches, Australian bus company

Baxter College, a secondary school in Kidderminster, England

Baxter International, an American healthcare company

Baxter Street School in Athens, Georgia

Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch, South Africa

Philip Baxter College, University of New South Wales, Australia

People

Baxter (name), including a list of people with the name

Places

Antarctica

Mount Baxter (Antarctica)

Australia

Baxter, Victoria

Baxter railway station

Baxter Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, near Port Augusta, South Australia

Baxter protests of 2003 and 2005

Baxter Field, baseball stadium in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia

Canada

Baxter, Ontario

Baxter Lakes, in Alberta

United States

Baxter, Arkansas

Baxter County, Arkansas

Baxter, California

Baxter, Colorado

Baxter, Georgia

Baxter, Iowa

Baxter, Kentucky

Baxter, Michigan

Baxter, Minnesota

Baxter, Missouri

Baxter, Pennsylvania

Baxter Village, South Carolina

Baxter, Tennessee

Baxter, Texas

Baxter, Wisconsin

Baxter, Berkeley County, West Virginia

Baxter, Marion County, West Virginia

Baxter Arena, in the campus of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, U.S.

Baxter Boulevard, Portland, Maine

Baxter Building (Portland, Maine), U.S.

Baxter Creek, a stream in California

Baxter Estates, New York

Baxter Lake (New Hampshire)

Baxter Mill, West Yarmouth, Massachusetts

Baxter Springs, Kansas

Baxter State Park, Maine

Baxter Street Historic District, Quincy, Massachusetts

Baxter Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

Baxter Woods, nature reserve in Portland, Maine

Mount Baxter (California)

Other uses

Baxter LePage, former first dog of Maine, U.S.

Baxter, a 1916 Meteorite fall

Baxter (robot), an industrial robot

See also

All pages with titles containing Baxter

All pages with titles beginning with Baxter

Baxter House (disambiguation)

Baxter Street (disambiguation)

Justice Baxter (disambiguation)

Baxter v.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Baxter” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Baxter, Wikimedia and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 1989, 2005, 1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Baxter, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q250143. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1973, 1989, 2005 and 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “Baxter” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.