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Kootenai County, Idaho

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45historic places

—earliest paper

1864formed

171,362pop. 2020

15cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 45 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, Rathdrum.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

35 of 45 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

45 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bayview School II	Bayview	Building	1985
Bellgrove School II	Rockford Bay	Building	1985
Cataldo Mission NHL	Cataldo	Building	1966
Cave Lake School	Medimont	Building	1985
Cedar Mountain School	Athol	Building	1985
Clark House	Clarksville	Building	1978
Coeur d'Alene City Hall	Coeur d'Alene	Building	1979
Coeur d'Alene Federal Building	Coeur d'Alene	Building	1977
Coeur d'Alene Garden District Historic District	Coeur d'Alene	District	2025
Coeur d'Alene Masonic Temple	Coeur d'Alene	Building	1978
Cougar Gulch School III	Post Falls	Building	1985
Crane, Silas W., and Elizabeth, House	Harrison	Building	1999
Davey, Harvey M., House	Coeur d'Alene	Building	1985
East Hayden Lake School II	Camp Mivoden	Building	1985
Finch, John A., Caretaker's House	Hayden Lake	Building	1987
First United Methodist Church	Coeur d'Alene	Building	1979
Fort Sherman Buildings	Coeur d'Alene	District	1979
Gray, John P. and Stella, House	Coeur d'Alene	Building	1988
Hamilton, Boyd and Alta, House	Coeur d'Alene	Building	2021
Harrison Commercial Historic District	Harrison	District	1996
Indian Springs School II	Medimont	Building	1985
Inland Empire Electric Railway Substation	Coeur d'Alene	Building	1975
Kootenai County Courthouse	Coeur d'Alene	Building	1977
Kootenai County Jail	Rathdrum	Building	2001
Lane School II	Lane	Building	1985
McGuires School	McGuire	Building	1985
Mooney-Dahlberg Farmstead	Coeur d'Alene	Building	2009
Mullan Road	Coeur d'Alene	Site	1990
Pen d'Oreille City	Athol	Site	2019
Pleasant View School II	Pleasant View	Building	1985
Post Falls Community United Presbyterian Church	Post Falls	Building	1984
Prairie School II	Coeur d'Alene	Building	1985
Rathdrum State Bank	Rathdrum	Building	1974
Roosevelt School	Coeur d'Alene	Building	1976
Rose Lake School II	Rose Lake	Building	1985
Sherman Park Addition	Coeur d'Alene	District	1992
Spirit Lake Historic District	Spirit Lake	District	1979
Spokane Valley Land and Water Company Canal	Post Falls	Structure	2003
St. Stanislaus Kostka Mission	Rathdrum	Building	1977
St. Thomas Catholic Church	Coeur d'Alene	Building	1977
Thunborg, Jacob and Cristina, House	Hayden Lake	Building	1985
Treaty Rock	Post Falls	Site	1992
Upper Twin Lakes School	Silver Sands Beach	Building	1985
Washington Water Power Bridges	Post Falls	Structure	1996
Young, Samuel and Ann, House	Post Falls	Building	1997

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Kootenai was formed in 1864 (1864-12-22) from attached to NEZ PERCE "for all civil, criminal jurisprudence.

KOOTENAI created by Idaho Territory from Non-County Area 1, attached to NEZ PERCE "for all civil and criminal jurisprudence." Faulty geographic knowledge in KOOTENAI description resulted in an overlap with SHOSHONE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Kootenai County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
518	10,216	17,878	22,283	24,947	29,556	59,770	108,685	171,362

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

15 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bestland Cemetery	47.70322	-116.77406
Coeur d'Alene Indian Cemetery	47.4101	-116.91095
Coeur d'Alene Memorial Gardens	47.73808	-116.78828
Evergreen Cemetery	47.7352	-116.94599
Forest Cemetery	47.68353	-116.78862
Greenwood Cemetery	47.96371	-116.86007
Lane Cemetery	47.50664	-116.53324
Medimont Cemetery	47.47804	-116.60322
Mountain View Cemetery	47.94834	-116.72131
Old Mission Cemetery	47.55021	-116.35627
Pinegrove Cemetery	47.81823	-116.87351
Rimrock Cemetery	47.82459	-116.76452
Rose Lake Cemetery	47.55781	-116.44861
Saint Thomas Cemetery	47.67279	-116.75469
Worley Cemetery	47.42	-116.91739

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Lyondale	47.60768	-116.85102
Wright	47.98102	-116.73186

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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