Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Near West Malin Malin, OR

Malin is a city in Klamath County, Oregon, incorporated in 1922.

Malin was settled on September 30, 1909, on land formerly at the bottom of Tule Lake, by 65 Bohemian families who named the new town for the Czech town of Malin, now part of Kutna Hora.

The settlers had found a large horseradish, and Malin is famous for that plant.

Fossils were discovered near Malin in 1925, according to Oregon Geographic Names.

Many surviving descendants of the original Czech families still call Malin home and maintain family farms.

As of the 2020 census, Malin had a population of 731, with 259 households, and 52.7 percent of residents were Hispanic or Latino.

Malin sits at an elevation of 4,062 feet in southern Klamath County near the Oregon-California border, along a spur of Oregon Route 39, southeast of Klamath Falls, east of Merrill and northeast of Tulelake.

The city covers 0.50 square miles, all of it land, and by highway it is 30 miles from Klamath Falls.

Lava Beds National Monument lies to the south, nearby in California.

The Malin Substation, an electrical substation owned by PG&E, PacifiCorp and the Bonneville Power Administration, forms the northern end of Path 66, a major north-south power transmission corridor.