Editing Kootenai County, Idaho (section)

===Kootenai County settled, fails to organize===
The Idaho Territorial Legislature created Kootenai County on December 22, 1864. A county government was not immediately organized as a result of lack of significant settlement in the region. Kootenai County contained 81 residents at the 1864 Census of Idaho Territory.<ref>{{cite web|title=Idaho State Historical Society Reference Series: Census of 1864|url=https://history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/0130.pdf|publisher=Idaho State Historical Society|access-date=February 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209035510/https://history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/0130.pdf|archive-date=February 9, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Idaho State Historical Society Reference Series: Idaho Indian Reservations|url=https://history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/0483.pdf|publisher=Idaho State Historical Society|access-date=February 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209042916/https://history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/0483.pdf|archive-date=February 9, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>  [[Rathdrum, Idaho|Rathdrum]] was the first of the present incorporated cities to experience settlement starting in 1861. It became a stagecoach stop and later the Kootenai County seat.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rathdrum History|url=http://www.rathdrum.org/index.asp?SEC=527C794C-09D9-47BD-B2FB-7A2E1E4FD83A&Type=B_BASIC|website=rathdrum.org|access-date=February 22, 2017}}</ref>  At the 1870 census, the region was reported under Nez Perce County as the Kootenai District with 31 residents.<ref>{{cite book|title=Ninth Census&mdash;Volume I|date=1872|publisher=Government Printing Office|location=Washington|page=108|url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1870a-01.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051108174045/http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1870a-01.pdf |archive-date=November 8, 2005 |url-status=live|access-date=February 22, 2017}}</ref>  Post Falls was settled in 1871 while Camp Coeur d'Alene was established in 1878. The camp became a Fort in 1879 and the town of Coeur d'Alene grew up around the fort.<ref>{{cite web|title=Idaho State Historical Society Reference Series: Fort Sherman|url=https://history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/0063.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502182829/http://www.history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/0063.pdf |archive-date=May 2, 2012 |url-status=live|publisher=Idaho State Historical Society|access-date=February 22, 2017}}</ref>  Dalton Gardens, Hayden, and Hayden Lake were also settled around this time.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Kootenai County|url=http://www.kcgov.us/community/history/|publisher=Kootenai County, Idaho|access-date=February 22, 2017|archive-date=March 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314114817/http://www.kcgov.us/community/history/|url-status=dead}}</ref>