Benewah County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. Established on January 23, 1915, from sections of Kootenai County, it was named for a chief of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. As of the 2000 Census the county had a population of 9,171 (2008 estimate: 9,352). The county seat and largest city is St. Maries.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 784 square miles (2,030 km²), of which, 776 square miles (2,010 km²)...
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Benewah County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. Established on January 23, 1915, from sections of Kootenai County, it was named for a chief of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. As of the 2000 Census the county had a population of 9,171 (2008 estimate: 9,352). The county seat and largest city is St. Maries.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 784 square miles (2,030 km²), of which, 776 square miles (2,010 km²) of it is land and 8 square miles (20 km²) of it (1.01%) is water. It is the northern part of the Palouse, a wide and rolling prairie-like region of the middle Columbia basin.
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,171 people, 3,580 households, and 2,538 families residing in the county. The population density was 12 people per square mile (5/km²). There were 4,238 housing units at an average density of 6 per square mile (2/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 88.66% White, 0.12% Black or African American, 8.94% Native American, 0.15%...
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