[3] It is part of the Palouse, a wide and rolling prairie-like region of the middle Columbia basin.

As of the 2010 census, there were 4,078 people, 1,762 households, and 1,156 families living in the county.

[9] In terms of ancestry, 24.7% were German, 18.3% were English, 12.3% were Irish, and 7.0% were American.

[12] As of the 2000 census, there were 4,064 people, 1,687 households, and 1,138 families living in the county.

19.6% were of German, 18.2% United States or American, 14.3% English and 8.3% Irish ancestry.

29.00% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

It has not been carried by a Democrat for President since Lyndon Johnson's 1964 landslide victory.

[17] The library was established in 1919 as a small reading room while a women's civics club fundraised for a permanent building.

A November 2023 ballot measure proposes to close the rural library district, and therefore the library itself, entirely due to the placement and availability of children's books on racial issues and LGBT topics.