Klamath Falls, Oregon
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Klamath Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97601. It stands on Link River. The Survey maps it on the Klamath Falls quadrangle. 21,813 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,099 feet above sea level.
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On record in Klamath Falls
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 12 of 16 shown
Baldwin Hotellisted 1973
Judge Henry L. Benson Houselisted 1981
Bisbee Hotellisted 2006
Blackburn Sanitariumlisted 1996
Crater Lake Lodgelisted 1981
Fred Goeller Houselisted 1998
Klamath Falls City Halllisted 1989
Klamath Falls City Library, Oldlisted 1989
Lake of the Woods Ranger Station-Work Centerlisted 1986
Linkville Pioneer Cemeterylisted 2014
Warren Mills Houselisted 1993
Point Comfort Lodgelisted 1979
Population over time
3 figuresKlamath Falls grew from 19,462 to 21,813 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 19,462 | |
| 2010 | 20,840 | +1,378 (+7%) |
| 2020 | 21,813 | +973 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1889 USGS Klamath quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Klamath quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Klamath Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Klamath Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Klamath Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1975 USGS Klamath Falls NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Klamath Falls quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Klamath Falls quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
75 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Klamath Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 909 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 16 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | CART 507 |
| 9 September 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Klamath Unit | LINDLEY |
| 8 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Klamath Unit | LIMPER |
| 7 September 2006 | Fireworks | under an acre | Klamath Unit | 1 MILE |
| 29 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 71 acres | Klamath Unit | HOGBACK |
| 27 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Klamath Unit | M&M |
| 24 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Klamath Unit | BEAGLE |
| 2 September 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Klamath Unit | BLUE MTN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 51 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Klamath Falls: 29 past producers, 17 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bly Mountain Perlite Deposit | Perlite | Unknown | ||
| Green Springs Hwy | Diatomite | Past Producer | ||
| Klamath Falls Diatomite | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Oregon Technical Institute | Mercury | Occurrence | Cinnabar | |
| Oregon Technical Institute | Mercury | Prospect | ||
| Brickyard | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Klamath Falls Brickyard | Clay | Producer | ||
| Wocus Site | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Wocus Site | Clay | Producer | ||
| Hardboard Spring | Geothermal | Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klamath Falls in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 4 hail, 3 flood, 3 wildfire, 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Klamath Falls | $10,000 | A member of the public reported that part of a barn roof was blown away, a firmly anchored car canopy was toppled, and a boat was damaged by strong gusts associated with a thunderstorm. No warning was issued for this storm. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Klamath Falls | - | A member of the public sent a picture of quarter sized hail. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Klamath Falls | - | An NWS employee driving through the area reported .5 to .75 inch hail covering the ground. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Klamath Falls | - | Klamath County dispatch reported multiple trees down on power lines and roads from Klamath Falls east and north to Chiloquin. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Klamath Falls | - | No wind report of this magnitude was received, but one report came close. |
| August 1999 | Wildfire | Klamath Falls | - | See below. |
| July 1999 | Wildfire | Klamath Falls | - | See below. |
| July 1999 | Wildfire | Klamath Falls | - | The Klamath Falls Herald and News reported 3 more lightning ignited fires. See below. |
| August 1999 | Flood | Klamath Falls | - | See below. |
| August 1999 | Flood | Klamath Falls | - | See below. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Klamath Falls | - | A small tornado, one and one-half inch hail, and heavy rain accompanied strong thunderstorms in the Klamath Falls area. The tornado ripped the roof off of a Klamath Falls School District bus barn. No one was injured. Hail from the same storm did some minor crop damage to local sugar beet fields. |
| May 1998 | Flash Flood | Klamath Falls | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Klamath Falls | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flood | Klamath Falls | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pelican City | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Altamont | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Stewart Lenox | 2.7 miles | 21 | |
| Terminal City | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Merganser (historical) | 3.4 miles | 21 | |
| Fairhaven | 3.6 miles | 21 | |
| West Klamath (historical) | 4.1 miles | 21 | |
| Hager | 4.9 miles | 19 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Klamath Falls | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q846146 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1136445. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.







