As of the census , the population was 39, The county was created in and named for Latah Creek in its northwest corner. The name was derived from two words in the Nez Perce language to evoke the sense of "the place of pine trees and sestle.
The county comprises the majority of the eastern portion of the Palouse , famous for its rolling hills and rich agriculture. American settlement of the Palouse commenced in Development of population centers at Genesee and Moscow are the earliest followed by Juliaetta and Kendrick in the s. The railroad's arrival in Moscow in led to its development as the primary population center of the county. The establishment of the University of Idaho at Moscow in also was significant in the city's continued growth.
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Potlatch was settled as a company town in Moscow first shows in the census with a population of Genesee was established as a town in They were returned at the Census as a single unincorporated area. Coeur d'Alene was named the county seat of Lah-Toh County.
The legislature was well aware that settlement was lacking in the area to support a county government and established that the Governor could organize the county commission upon receipt of a petition from fifty residents.
Initially, the Governor granted the request, but later informed the residents that they were actually located within the boundary of Nez Perce County. As a result, Fred T. Dubois successfully petitioned on their behalf for the United States Congress to create the county. In the University of Idaho killings , in the early morning hours of November 13, , a mass murder took place in Moscow, in which four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in an off-campus rented home by one or more attackers using one or more long knives.
