Baring is a city in northern Knox County, Missouri, United States.

[4] Baring is located on the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe railroad's mainline between Chicago and Los Angeles, which can carry heavy mixed freight and intermodal traffic, as well as Amtrak's Southwest Chief passenger train.

Baring was platted in 1888 when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was extended to that point.

[7] On the evening of August 4, 2023, an EF2 tornado struck Baring damaging homes and businesses.

[9] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.13 square miles (0.34 km2), all land.

39.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 22.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

About 8.3% of families and 14.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.7% of those under the age of eighteen and 10.3% of those 65 or over.