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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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Klamath Falls within Klamath County

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

Every listing in Klamath County

Population over time

3 figures

Klamath 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.

YearPeople Change
200019,462
201020,840+1,378 (+7%)
202021,813+973 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural9
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks3
Smoking2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCART 507
9 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreKlamath UnitLINDLEY
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKlamath UnitLIMPER
7 September 2006Fireworksunder an acreKlamath Unit1 MILE
29 September 1997Arson/incendiarism71 acresKlamath UnitHOGBACK
27 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKlamath UnitM&M
24 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKlamath UnitBEAGLE
2 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKlamath UnitBLUE MTN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klamath County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 51 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bly Mountain Perlite DepositPerliteUnknown
Green Springs HwyDiatomitePast Producer
Klamath Falls DiatomiteDiatomiteOccurrence
Oregon Technical InstituteMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Oregon Technical InstituteMercuryProspect
BrickyardClayPast Producer
Klamath Falls BrickyardClayProducer
Wocus SiteClayPast Producer
Wocus SiteClayProducer
Hardboard SpringGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Klamath County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008Thunderstorm WindKlamath Falls$10,000A 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 2020HailKlamath Falls-A member of the public sent a picture of quarter sized hail.
May 2006HailKlamath Falls-An NWS employee driving through the area reported .5 to .75 inch hail covering the ground.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindKlamath Falls-Klamath County dispatch reported multiple trees down on power lines and roads from Klamath Falls east and north to Chiloquin.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindKlamath Falls-No wind report of this magnitude was received, but one report came close.
August 1999WildfireKlamath Falls-See below.
July 1999WildfireKlamath Falls-See below.
July 1999WildfireKlamath Falls-The Klamath Falls Herald and News reported 3 more lightning ignited fires. See below.
August 1999FloodKlamath Falls-See below.
August 1999FloodKlamath Falls-See below.
May 1995HailKlamath 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 1998Flash FloodKlamath Falls-no account filed
May 1998HailKlamath Falls-no account filed
June 1996FloodKlamath Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Klamath County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Pelican City2.1 miles18
Altamont2.7 miles19
Stewart Lenox2.7 miles21
Terminal City3.3 miles18
Merganser (historical)3.4 miles21
Fairhaven3.6 miles21
West Klamath (historical)4.1 miles21
Hager4.9 miles19

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 FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q846146The 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.