Klamath County, Oregon Genealogy

United States

Oregon

Klamath County

Guide to Klamath County, Oregon ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Oregon Online Genealogy Records

Klamath County, Oregon
Map
Location in the state of Oregon
Location of Oregon in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	October 17, 1882
County Seat	Klamath Falls
Courthouse
Address	Klamath County Courthouse 304 Main Street Klamath Falls, Or 97601-6385 Klamath County Website

County Information

Description

The County was named for the Klamath. The County is located in the south central area of the state.

Klamath County, Oregon Record Dates

Known Beginning Dates for Major County Records
Birth*	Marriage	Death*	Court	Land	Probate	Census
1903	1882	1903	1872	1870	1882	1845
Statewide registration for births and deaths in 1903. General compliance year unknown.

County Courthouse

County Clerk has marriage and land records from 1882
and military records from 1919.
Clerk Circuit Court has divorce, probate and court records.

Klamath County Government

County Records Inventory listing the records held at the Klamath County Court House as of August 2006.

Klamath County Court is structured differently. Check the County Records Inventory link for addresses for location of records (left column).

• Record Loss:

Historical Facts

Named for a tribe of Native Americans living in the area at the time the first white explorers entered the region, the Klamaths.

Tidbits: Little biographic bits associated with the names of non-population localities.

Parent County

17 October 1882: Created from west part of Lake County.

Boundary Changes

For animated maps illustrating Oregon County boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Oregon County Boundary Maps" (1843-1975) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss

There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Places / Localities

Populated Places

The following are locations in the county:

For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator

Cities
Bonanza Chiloquin	Klamath Falls Malin	Merrill
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 Odell Lake Odessa Olene Pelican Pine Grove Pine Ridge Rocky Point Shevlin Sprague River Worden Yonna
Native American communities
Klamath
Census-designated places
Altamont

Defunct Post Offices

• Algoma: The town was named for the Algoma Lumber Company. The name is said to be an Indian word formed from Algonquin and goma, meaning Algonquin waters. Post Office was established in 1912 and closed in 1943. The town was a company townsite to support employees of Algoma Lumber Company.
• Altamont: Altamont post office was in service from January 1893 to February 1902, with George W. Smith postmaster.

Neighboring Counties

Deschutes | Douglas | Jackson | Lake | Lane | California counties: Modoc | Siskiyou

Trivia Tidbits

Information about localities, too small or too brief to describe in separate pages. Exception to this are Post Offices. Trivia Tidbits

Resources

Cemeteries

Tombstone Transcriptions Online	Tombstone Transcriptions in Print	List of Cemeteries in the county
Findagrave.com	Family History Library	Findagrave.com
ORGenWeb Archives	WorldCat	Billion Graves
Tombstone Project		FamilySearch Places
ORInterment
ORGravestones
Billion Graves
See Oregon Cemeteries for more information.

• Oregon Metro
• Oregon Genealogy Cemeteries

Census

Historical populations
Census	Pop.	%±
1890	2,444	—
1900	3,970	62.4%
1910	8,554	115.5%
1920	11,413	33.4%
1930	32,407	183.9%
1940	40,497	25.0%
1950	42,150	4.1%
1960	47,475	12.6%
1970	50,021	5.4%
1980	59,117	18.2%
1990	57,702	−2.4%
2000	63,775	10.5%
2010	66,380	4.1%
Source: "Wikipedia.org".

Church History and Records (Rural)

List of Churches and Church Parishes

• FamilySearch Places
  

Gazetteers

• FamilySearch Places:Cities and Towns- How to Use FS Places

Maps

• FamilySearch Places:Cities and Towns- How to Use FS Places

Click a neighboring county
for more resources

Military

Civil War

• 1861-1865 - Oregon, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — index

World War I

• 1919-1920 - Oregon, World War I, County Military Service Records, 1919-1920 at FamilySearch — index
• 1921-1938 - Oregon, World War I, Veteran State Aid Applications, 1921-1938 at FamilySearch — index and images

Newspapers

Oregon Online Historical Newspapers - identifies historical archived and digitized newspapers available online on both free and pay-to-access websites.

Probate Records

Online Records

• 1833 – 1963 Oregon Wills and Probate Records 1833-1963 at Ancestry.com — index and images $

Rivers and Waterways

Details about the rivers and waterways where farms and settlements are often found along them. >> Rivers and Waterways

Vital Records

See also How to order Oregon Vital Records, order electronically online or download an application for Oregon Birth Certificate, Marriage Certificate, Divorce Certificate, Death Certificate Application to mail.

Birth Records

• 1860 - 1952 - Oregon Births, 1860-1952 at FamilySearch — index

Delayed Birth Certificates

Birth Registers

Marriage Records

1. 1826-1975 - Oregon, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
2. 1849-1884; 1991-2006 - Oregon Marriage Index, 1849-1884; 1991-2006 at FamilySearch — index and images; collection is incomplete.
3. Extractions of early marriages are listed on the Western States Marriage Index
4. Marriage Index 1885-1896 Actually is a book of affiants reporting the marriages. Historical Records Collection

Societies, Libraries and Museums

Klamath Basin Genealogical Society
126 S. 3rd St
Klamath Falls OR 97601
E-mail:kbgs@charter.net
Website

Klamath Basin Genealogical Society
c/o Klamath County Library
126 South 3rd St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601

Klamath County Museum
1451 Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Telephone: 541-883-4208
Website

Family History Centers

Family History Centers provide one-on-one assistance, free access to center-only databases, and to premium genealogical websites.
FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries have access to most center-only databases, but may not always have full services normally provided by a family history center.

• Family History Center and Affiliate Library Locator

Local Centers and Libraries

• Chiloquin Oregon Family History Center Highway 62 S Highway 422 Chiloquin OR 97624 United States
• Klamath Falls Oregon Family History Center 6630 Alva Ave Klamath Falls OR 97603 United States Location Map
• Yonna Valley Oregon Family History Center(Bonanza)26627 Hwy 140 E Bonanza, OR 97623 United States Location Map

Genealogy Websites

• Klamath County, OR History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
• Oregon Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
• The Klamath County GenWeb Project part of The ORGenWeb Project
• Linkpendium
• The USGenWeb Archives Project
• The USGenWeb Archives Project (Backup site)
• FamilySearch.org