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Klamath County (/ ˈ k l æ m ə θ / KLAM-əth) is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census , the population was 69,413. [ 1 ] The county seat is Klamath Falls . [ 2 ]
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to over 2,000, [3] and 30 of those are found partially or wholly in Klamath County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024.
Klamath Falls (/ ˈ k l æ m ə θ / KLAM-əth) is a city in, and the county seat of, Klamath County, Oregon, United States. The city was originally called Linkville when George Nurse founded the town in 1867. It was named after the Link River, on whose falls the city was sited. The name was changed to Klamath Falls in 1893. [5]
Fort Klamath was established in 1863, and was an important Army post during conflicts with the Klamath, Modoc, and Northern Paiute tribes. [2] The fort consisted of more than 50 buildings, including a sawmill. Four Modoc men, led by Kintpuash, were executed there in 1873 for the killing of General Edward Canby. Their graves remain at the fort.
Malin is at an elevation of 4,062 feet (1,238 m) [5] in southern Klamath County near the Oregon–California border. [7] It is along a spur of Oregon Route 39, southeast of Klamath Falls, east of Merrill, and northeast of Tulelake. [7] Lava Beds National Monument is to the south, nearby in California. [7]
Chiloquin (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ l ə k w ɪ n / CHIL-ə-kwin) (Klamath: mbosaksawaas, "flint place" [5]) is a city in Klamath County, Oregon, United States.Chiloquin was the pioneer version of a Klamath family name Chaloquin, which was the name of a Klamath chief who was alive at the time of the treaty of 1864. [6]
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has freed the Klamath River, ... finished removing the last of the four dams that once held back the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border.
The Klamath people are a Native American tribe of the Plateau culture area in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Today Klamath people are enrolled in the federally recognized tribes : Klamath Tribes (Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin (Yahuskin) Band of Northern Paiute Indians), Oregon