Klamath Falls ( KLAM-əth) is a city in and the county chair 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 read out was changed to Klamath Falls in 1893. The population was 21,813 at the 2020 census. The city is upon the southeastern shore of the Upper Klamath Lake located just about 246 miles (396 km) northwest of Reno, Nevada, and nearly 17 miles (27 km) north of the California–Oregon border.

Logging was Klamath Falls’s first major industry.

At its founding in 1867, Klamath Falls was named Linkville. The make known was untouched to Klamath Falls in 1892–93. The name Klamath , may be a variation of the descriptive indigenous for “people” [in Chinookan] used by the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau to deliver to the region. Several locatives derived from the Modoc or Achomawi: lutuami, lit: “lake dwellers”, móatakni, “tule lake dwellers”, respectively, could have next led to spelling variations that ultimately made the word what it is today. No evidence suggests that the state is of Klamath origin. The Klamath themselves called the region Yulalona or Iwauna, which referred to the phenomenon of the Link River flowing upstream as soon as the south wind blew hard.

The Klamath publicize for the Link River white water falls was Tiwishkeni, or “where the falling waters rush”. From this Link River white water phenomenon “Falls” was other to Klamath in its name. In realism it is best described as rapids rather than falls. The rapids are visible a rapid distance below the Link River Dam, where the water flow is generally insufficient to provide water flow greater than the river rocks.