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Klamath Falls is a city in and the county seat of Klamath County, Oregon, on the southeastern shore of Upper Klamath Lake at the foothills of the Cascade Range.

The 2020 census counted 21,813 people in Klamath Falls, and the city had 9,089 households in the 2020 census.

George Nurse founded the town in 1867 as Linkville, named after the Link River on whose falls the city was sited, and the name was changed to Klamath Falls in 1893.

Klamath Falls was incorporated in 1905, and logging was its first major industry, growing rapidly after the Southern Pacific Transportation Company arrived in 1909.

The city is home to the Oregon Institute of Technology, and with its suburb Altamont, a census-designated place, the combined population of the two communities is 42,046 residents.

Klamath Falls is nicknamed 'Oregon's City of Sunshine' because the area enjoys about 300 days of sun per year, despite cold, snowy winters.

Klamath Falls sits at an elevation of about 4,095 feet in a high desert landscape, and the older part of the city sits above natural geothermal springs.

Geothermal power has heated homes in Klamath Falls since the early 1900s, and a downtown district heating system built in 1981 now heats homes, city schools, greenhouses, and government buildings, with geothermally heated snowmelt systems for sidewalks and roads.

The Klamath Reclamation Project began in 1906 to drain marshland for agriculture, and veterans of World Wars I and II were given homesteading opportunities on the reclaimed land.

Klamath Falls made national headlines in 2001 when irrigation water was shut off over Endangered Species Act requirements for the Lost River sucker, shortnose sucker, and Coho salmon, leading to the 'Bucket Brigade' protest on Main Street attended by 18,000 people.