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Klamath Falls
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city in and county seat of Klamath County, Oregon, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Klamath
- Total
- 20.95 sq mi (54.27 km )
- Land
- 20.08 sq mi (52.01 km )
- Water
- 0.88 sq mi (2.27 km )
- Elevation
- 4,095 ft (1,248 m)
- Density
- 1,086.3/sq mi (419.43/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 (Pacific)
- Zip codes
- 97601, 97603
- Fips code
- 41-39700
- Website
- City Website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Klamath Falls
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Klamath County
- Population
- 21813
- Area
- 20.66
- Elevation
- 4099
- Time zone
- UTC−08:00
- Capital of
- Klamath County
- Official website
- www.ci.klamath-falls.or.us
- Image
- Klamath Falls downtown.JPG
- Households
- 9507
- Dialing code
- 541
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- twinned administrative body
- Rotorua
- Commons category
- Klamath Falls, Oregon
- topic's main category
- Category:Klamath Falls, Oregon
- inception
- 1905-00-00
- postal code
- 97603
- water as percent of area
- 4.1287
- P12749
- Galeomorphi
- per capita income
- 25383
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Klamath Falls, Oregon
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Encyclopedic overview
Klamath Falls (/ˈklæməθ/ 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. The population was 21,813 at the 2020 census. With its suburb Altamont, a census-designated place, the combined population of the towns is 42,046 residents. The city is on the southeastern shore of the Upper Klamath Lake, at the foothills of the Cascade Range, and is home to the Oregon Institute of Technology.
Logging was the first major industry of Klamath Falls.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Klamath Falls” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.