In Kootenai County, Idaho, which covers Spirit Lake, we have measured 16,452 parcels on septic and 38,556 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Spirit Lake on its own and this page does not estimate one.
Spirit Lake is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 47.965799, -116.869831 and its land area at 2.46 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the city level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.
| County | Records we hold | Parcels on septic | Parcels on sewer | County records portal | Searchable without an account |
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| Kootenai County | 14,577 | 16,452 | 38,556 | county portal | no account needed |
We hold 14,577 septic records for Kootenai County, Idaho. That is a substantial partial collection rather than a complete one, so a Spirit Lake property may or may not appear in it, and the county archive remains the authority. The county is genuinely mixed: 16,452 of 55,008 classified parcels are on septic and the rest are sewered. Which side of that line a Spirit Lake address falls on is worth establishing before anything else. The county publishes a records portal that we were able to search without creating an account, which makes checking a specific parcel something you can do yourself in a few minutes.
Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.
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No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Kootenai County, Idaho, which covers Spirit Lake, we have measured 16,452 parcels on septic and 38,556 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Spirit Lake on its own and this page does not estimate one.
Spirit Lake is in Kootenai County, Idaho.
From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Spirit Lake’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.
Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Spirit Lake.
Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Kootenai County, Idaho.