Malin, Oregon
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Malin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97632. The Survey maps it on the Malin quadrangle. 731 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,062 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresMalin grew from 638 to 731 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 | 638 | |
| 2010 | 805 | +167 (+26%) |
| 2020 | 731 | -74 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 18 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 Malin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Klamath Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1988 USGS Malin quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Klamath Falls quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
15 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Malin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 42 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Klamath Unit | POPE |
| 15 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Klamath Unit | HOLL ROAD |
| 28 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Klamath Unit | PAYGR II |
| 12 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Klamath Unit | BCH |
| 8 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | DUMP ROAD 202 |
| 26 July 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge | EASTSTUKEL |
| 25 July 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Lakeview District | HOBBS |
| 24 July 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Lakeview District | POWERLINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Malin: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grye & Barney Well | Geothermal | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malin in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malin | - | The Klamath Falls Herald and News reported extensive wind, rain, and hail damage to crops around Malin and the Yonna valleys. Crop damage included 1000 to 1800 acres of strawberry root stock and several alfalfa and potato fields. No cost estimate is available at this time. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malone | 8.0 miles | 18 | |
| Bedfield (historical) | 8.5 miles | 18 | |
| Langell Valley | 9.5 miles | 18 | |
| Tule Lake (historical) | 9.6 miles | 18 | |
| Hot Springs | 9.6 miles | 18 | |
| Merrill | 10.2 miles | 18 | |
| Lorella | 11.2 miles | 19 | |
| White Lake City (historical) | 12.6 miles | 18 |
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 Malin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1825744 | 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 1136509. 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.






