Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Klamath County Records Inventory
County Commissioners Orders, Ordinances, and Resolutions
1870-[ongoing]
Series documents orders, ordinances, and resolutions passed by the board of county commissioners and the county court regulating and establishing guidelines for specific activities within the county. Information includes activity covered by order, ordinance, or resolution; administrative action number; who introduced; findings of fact; conclusions; recommendations; date heard; and hearings officer name and signature. Activities include noise abatement, nuisances, zoning, animal control, solid waste management, land division regulations, elections, comprehensive plan, and road and bridge use limits.
Beginning in 1882 orders, ordinances, and resolutions were included in the Commissioners Journal (County Commissioners Administrative Journals).
Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Clerk's Basement Storage
Room:
Commissioners Journal [Administrative Records-includes orders, ordinances,
and resolutions-arranged chronologically by journal entry date-title varies],
1977-1997 (37.50 cu.ft.); 2001-2002 (2.25 cu.ft.);
[Commissioners Journal-Administrative Records-includes some
county commission minutes, orders, ordinances, resolutions, and
zone change records-arranged alphabetical by subject], ca.1949-1977 (15
cu.ft.);
[Commissioners Orders and Resolutions], 1994-1997 (2 cu.ft.);
Comprehensive Land Use Plan [Land Development Code], 1981 (1 volume); 1982
(1 volume); 1997 (1 binder);
Land Use Planning Ordinances [includes comprehensive plan, zoning, and subdivision
ordinances], 1981-present (2 cu.ft.);
Orders & Resolutions [County Commissioners], 1977-1985 (2.50 cu.ft.);
Orders Resolutions [County Commissioners], 1990-1993 (2 cu.ft.);
[Road Case Files-includes petitions, orders, viewers' reports,
field notes, maps, contracts, agreements, engineering documents,
and related records], ca.1915-ca.1976 (9 cu.ft.);
[Zoning Maps-includes copies of ordinances adopting
comprehensive plan and land development code], 1981-1982 (12
volumes).
Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Planning Division Office:
Ordinance Series [Records-includes historical comprehensive plan, zoning
ordinance, subdivision ordinance, and related documents], ca.1961-present (4.50
cu.ft.).
Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Planning Division Office Map Area:
[Miscellaneous Planning Division Library Binders-includes comprehensive plan
and zoning ordinance information], ca.1980-present (ca.5 cu.ft.).
Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Planning Division Office Storage Room:
Land Development Code, 1981-1984 (1 volume);
[Land Development Code], 1995 (1 binder);
Zoning Ordinance, 1972 (1 binder).
Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Planning Division Measure 37 Officer's
Office:
Amendments to Adopted Klamath County Comprehensive Plan and Implementing
Ordinances [Wildlife Overlay], 1983-1984 (.05 cu.ft.);
Klamath County Land Development Code, 1981 (.05 cu.ft.); 1981-1984 (.10 cu.ft.);
Klamath County Land Development Code Revisions, 1990-1995 (.05 cu.ft.);
Klamath County Zoning Ordinance, 1972 (.10 cu.ft.);
Subdivision Ordinance, 1969 (.05 cu.ft.).
Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Surveyor's Office Public
Research Room:
Road Records [includes orders, resolutions, vacations,
maps, petitions, and reports], ca.1920-present (20
cu.ft.);
[Surveyor's Master Index-includes references to road record,
road establishment, vacation, plat vacation, ordinance, dismissed
road petition, and miscellaneous file-in stand],
ca.1870-ca.1987 (1 volume).
Records at the Klamath County Library:
Klamath County Land Development Code Preliminary Draft, 1980
(1 volume);
Klamath Files [Planning/Land Use-Proposed Zoning Ordinance], 1972
(1 volume).
Records at the Klamath County Web Site:
Klamath
County Code [Microsoft Word document], ca.1969-present
(Internet);
Klamath
County Land Development Code [includes revisions], 1981-1984 (Internet);
Klamath
County Land
Development Code Revisions, 1990-1995
(Internet);
Klamath County
Ordinance Index [includes references to comprehensive plan amendments
and zoning and subdivision ordinances-Microsoft Word document], ca.1960-present
(Internet);
Klamath
County Subdivision Ordinance, 1969 (Internet);
Klamath
County Zoning Ordinance, 1975 (Internet);
Land
Development Code [Current], ca.1984-present (Internet);
Land
Development Code [Historical], 1981 (Internet).