Klamathon was a historic lumber town whose townsite was laid out in 1888 by the Klamath River Lumber and Improvement Company, with its sawmill completed on July 23, 1892. The town included a sawmill, box factory, sash and door factory, hotels, boarding houses, a school, post office, two churches, and five saloons. Logs for the mill were floated down from company holding twenty-five miles upriver. Shortly after midnight on Monday, October 13, 1902, fire raged through the community, and by dawn only a few dwellings remained. Most of these were later lost to subsequent fires, and only a few traces remain of the once prosperous community.