Oregon State Archives

Oregon Historical County Records Guide

Klamath County Records Inventory

Maps, Plans, and Drawings

1858-[ongoing]

Series provides a visual representation of the county and of physical structures constructed on county lands. Series includes maps, plans, and drawings that vary in size, scale, and date. Included are maps, plans, and drawings of counties and cities, election precincts, courthouses and other county buildings, cemeteries, rivers, Indian reservations, school districts, construction projects, and soil classifications. General road maps may be found in the series titled Road and Bridge Records. Technical road survey maps may be found in the series titled Road Maps and Survey Notes.

Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Surveyor's Office Public Research Room:
County Buildings [Plans and Drawings-includes museum, health department, veterans memorial, juvenile home, and courthouse buildings], ca.1926-present (ca.200 drawings);
[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);
[Topographic Maps-hanging], ca.1957-ca.1988 (ca.75 maps);
U.S.G.S. Quad Maps [United States Geological Survey Quadrangle Topographic Maps], 1955-1960 (1 binder).

Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Surveyor's Office Vault:
Oregon Water Corp. Distribution Maps, n.d. (ca.75 maps);
[Topographic Maps Klamath Falls Urban Area], ca.1961 (ca.150 maps).

Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Surveyor's Office Room 240:
Flood Insurance Rate Map, 1984 (.50 cu.ft.);
Klamath County [Maps-includes county, road index, precinct], ca.1959-ca.1994 (ca.35 maps);
Klamath Falls [Urban Area Maps], 1970-1993 (ca.20 maps);
[Map and Plat Index-includes references to road survey information-black book], 1858-ca.1972 (1 volume);
[Map and Plat Rolodex Index-includes references to road survey information], 1858-ca.1972 (.25 cu.ft.);
Miscellaneous [Maps-includes general, district, topographical, and way of necessity], ca.1904-ca.1987 (ca.75 maps);
Other Cities and Towns [City Maps], ca.1948-present (ca.30 maps);
National Forest [Maps], n.d. (ca.40 maps);
Rock Quarries [Plans], ca.1974-ca.1992 (ca.30 drawings);
Storm Drainage [Maps], ca.1976-present (ca.100 maps);
[Topographic Maps-hanging], ca.1963-ca.1988 (ca.250 maps);
USRS Klamath Project [United States Reclamation Service Maps], n.d. (ca.35 maps).

Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Planning Division Office Map Area:
Census Maps [with index], 1990 (ca.30 maps);
Flood Hazard Maps [with index], 1984 (ca.100 maps);
Geological Survey [Topographic Maps], ca.1957-ca.1988 (ca.100 maps);
[Miscellaneous Maps-includes big game habitat, enterprise zone, and destination resort zone-hanging], ca.1999-present (ca.50 maps);
National Wetlands Inventory [Maps-hanging], 1989-1995 (ca.200 maps);
Site Specific Soil Maps, 1953-1974 (ca.100 maps);
Soil Survey [Maps-with index], 1992 (ca.50 maps);
[Topographic Maps], 1967-ca.1988 (1 volume);
Wetland Inventory Maps [with index], 1982 (ca.75 maps).

Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Planning Division Office Counter Area:
[Zone Map-Current], 1992-present (11 binders).

Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Planning Division Office Storage Room:
[Miscellaneous Maps-includes vicinity, soils, highway, zoning, flood plain, big game habitat, etc.], ca.1980-ca.1995 (ca.50 maps).

Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Clerk's Office Public Research Room:
City of Klamath Falls Council Wards [Map], 2004 (1 map);
Oregon House Districts and Precincts Map [Klamath County], 2002 (1 map);
Plat Book of Linkville Cemetery Klamath Falls Ore., n.d. (1 volume);
Precinct Map Klamath Falls and Vicinity, 2002 (1 map).

Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Clerk's Basement Storage Room:
Maps of Special Districts, ca.1965-ca.1990 (1 cu.ft.);
[Miscellaneous Rolled Maps-includes special district, precinct, road, highway, and county], ca.1959-ca.1997 (ca.75 maps);
Property Appraisals [Insurance Valuation Reports-includes appraisal maps and some building photographs], 1949, 1958, 1961, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1976-1977 (1 cu.ft.).

Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Assessor's Office:
[Assessor's Plats], ca.1984-present (ca.2100 maps).

Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Assessor's Office, Cartography Room:
[Assessor's Plats-record copy], ca.1984-present (ca.2100 maps).

Records at the Klamath County Museum:
Fire Insurance Map [Klamath Falls-Sanborn], 1911-1916 (1 volume); 1921-1930 (1 volume);
Klamath Falls Oregon [Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps], 1931-1957 (1 volume);
Metsker's Atlas of Klamath County Oregon, 1961 (1 volume);
[Miscellaneous Flat Maps-includes Klamath County and cities], ca.1879-ca.1960 (ca.75 maps);
[Miscellaneous Rolled Maps-includes county, Indian reservation, quadrangle, forest, vicinity, etc.], ca.1889-ca.1976 (ca.75 maps).

Records at the Klamath County Library:
Klamath Files [Klamath County Flood Insurance Rate Maps-bottom drawer], 1985 (.40 cu.ft.).

Records at the Klamath County Web Site:
Area Maps [Klamath County], 2004-present (Internet).

Records at a Related Web Site:
Tax Assessment GIS Maps [select county], n.d.-present (www.ormap.org).

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