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〕 |website = |footnotes = }} Merrill is a city in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. The population was 844 at the 2010 census. Merrill is an agricultural area and home to an annual Potato Festival.〔http://www.localnewscomesfirst.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1663&Itemid=2〕 The area was also part of the Klamath Basin water crisis pitting agricultural interests against endangered species water requirements, tribal interests, and environmentalists.〔http://www.capitalpress.info/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=28219&SectionID=67&SubSectionID=&S=1〕 Merrill was the birthplace and boyhood home of Carl Barks, the Disney comics artist who created Scrooge McDuck, among others. It is home to the Raiders of Lost River Jr./Sr. High School. ==Geography== Merrill is at an elevation of 〔 in southern Klamath County near the Oregon–California border. It is along Oregon Route 39 southeast of Klamath Falls and northwest of Tulelake.〔 Lower Klamath Lake and Tule Lake, both in California, are slightly south of Merrill.〔 By highway, the city is from Klamath Falls and from Portland. The Lost River flows by Merrill.〔 Mount Shasta in the Cascade Range southwest of Merrill, is visible from the city.〔 According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/gazetteer.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Merrill, Oregon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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