Klamath County, Oregon

Date: 17 Oct 1882
Location: Klamath, Oregon, United States
Surnames/tags: Klamath_County Oregon United_States

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Northwest Lane	North Deschutes	Northeast
West Douglas Jackson		East Lake
Southwest	South	Southeast

Contents 1 Klamath County 2 History 3 Places 3.1 Cities 3.2 Census-designated place 3.3 Unincorporated communities 3.3.1 Klamath County Plat Maps 3.3.2 Museums 3.3.3 Schools 3.3.4 Cemeteries 3.4 Klamath County Historical Sites 4 Resources 4.1 Legal Documents 4.2 Newspapers 5 Sources

Klamath County

• Klamath County Website
• Klamath County Historical Society
• Klamath County Chamber of Commerce
• Klamath County on Wikipedia
• Wikidata: Item Q484388, en:Wikipedia
• Klamath County Genealogy on FamilySearch
• Klamath County, Category
• WikiTree Profiles that link to this page.

History

Klamath County was formed in 1882 from the western part of Lake County. The county is named after the Klamath or Clamitte tribe, which has had a presence in the area for 10,000 years. The county seat is Klamath Falls.

Places

Cities

Bonanza	Chiloquin
Malin	Merrill
Klamath Falls (county seat)

Census-designated place

Altamont, Oregon

Unincorporated communities

Ady	Algoma	Beatty	Beaver Marsh	Bly	Cascade Summit
Chemult	Crescent	Dairy	Fairhaven	Falcon Heights	Fort Klamath
Gilchrist	Hager	Hatfield	Haynesville	Henley	Hildebrand
Hot Springs	Keno	Kirk	Klamath Agency	Lake of the Woods	Langell Valley
Lenz	Lorella	Malone	Midland	Modoc Point	Odell Lake
Odessa	Olene	Pelican City	Pine Grove	Rocky Point	Shevlin
Sprague River	Stewart Lenox	Terminal City	Worden	Yonna

Klamath County Plat Maps

• Klamath County, 1960c; Metsker Maps, 1960
• Klamath County 1961; Metsker Maps, 1961
• Klamath County 1980 to 1996; Metsker Maps, 1980

Museums

• Klamath County Museum The Klamath County Museum at 1451 Main Street in Klamath Falls serves as the main history museum for Klamath County and the surrounding area.

• Baldwin Hotel Museum Opened in 1905, and known to be haunted. Strange sounds, lights, noises, figures and shadows seen from windows have been reported.

• Fort Klamath Museum Every surviving Modoc Indian who participated in the Modoc war was marched under guard to Fort Klamath.

• Collier Memorial State Park and Logging Museum Collier Memorial State Park features the Collier Logging Museum, an outdoor museum with a large collection of historic logging equipment. Some items date back to the 1880s and many are quite rare.

• The Favell Museum Museum of Western Art and Native American Artifacts

Schools

• Klamath County Schools

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries

Klamath County Historical Sites

• Klamath Lake

• Crater Lake National Park - Crater Lake is 1,949 feet (594 m) deep at its deepest point, which makes it the deepest lake in the United States, the second-deepest in North America and the ninth-deepest in the world.^[1]

• Crater Lake Institute

Resources

• State Sources
  • General Sources
  • External Links
• Klamath County Sources

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Legal Documents

• Klamath County Courthouse
• Klamath County, Oregon Free Public Records Directory

Newspapers

• Herald and News
• Oregon Digital Newspaper Program
• The Oregonian Archives

Sources

1. ↑ NPS.gov