The Link River is a short river connecting

Upper Klamath Lake Upper Klamath Lake (sometimes called Klamath Lake) ( Klamath: ?ews, "lake" ) is a large, shallow freshwater lake east of the Cascade Range in south-central Oregon in the United States. The largest body of fresh water by surface area in Oregon, it ...

Lake Ewauna Lake Ewauna is a reservoir in Klamath Falls, Oregon. It is the headwaters of the Klamath River, fed by the Link River from Upper Klamath Lake. Its constant level throughout the year is controlled by the release of water from Keno Dam, south of t ...

in the city of

Klamath Falls Klamath Falls ( ) is a city in and the county seat 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 ...

in the

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.McArthur, p. 580 Draining a basin of , the river begins at the southern end of Klamath Lake and flows a short distance to the

Link River Dam The Link River Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Link River in the city of Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States. It was built in 1921 by the California Oregon Power Company (COPCO), the predecessor of PacifiCorp, which continues to operate the ...

and continues to the head of Lake Ewauna. The "falls" from which Klamath Falls derives its name, and which in reality are best described as

rapids Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence. Rapids are hydrological features between a ''run'' (a smoothly flowing part of a stream) and a ''cascade''. ...

rather than falls, are visible a short distance below the dam, though the water flow is generally insufficient to provide water flow over the rocks. The

Klamath River The Klamath River (Karuk: ''Ishkêesh'', Klamath: ''Koke'', Yurok: ''Hehlkeek 'We-Roy'') flows through Oregon and northern California in the United States, emptying into the Pacific Ocean. By average discharge, the Klamath is the second larges ...

begins at the narrow southern end of Lake Ewauna and flows from there to the Pacific Ocean. Before settlers came to the

Klamath Basin The Klamath Basin is the region in the U.S. states of Oregon and California drained by the Klamath River. It contains most of Klamath County and parts of Lake and Jackson counties in Oregon, and parts of Del Norte, Humboldt, Modoc, Siskiyou ...

, the Link River was known to the local

Klamath Klamath may refer to: Ethnic groups *Klamath people, a Native American people of California and Oregon **Klamath Tribes, a federally recognized group of tribes in Oregon *Klamath language, spoken by the Klamath people Places in the United States * ...

s as ''Yulalona,'' meaning "back and forth." At times, strong winds blew the water upstream into Klamath Lake and partly drained the riverbed. After its founding in 1867, Klamath Falls was originally named Linkville. The name was changed to Klamath Falls in 1892–93.McArthur, p. 541

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*McArthur, Lewis A., and McArthur, Lewis L. (2003)

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''Oregon Geographic Names'', 7th ed. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press. . {{Authority control Rivers of Oregon Rivers of Klamath County, Oregon Tributaries of the Klamath River

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