Oregon State Archives

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).

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