Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area is located in the northwestern part of this county.

[3] It was named in honor of the Marquis de LaFayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War.

[7] As of the 2010 United States census, there were 22,140 people, 8,311 households, and 5,648 families living in the county.

The county voted after that for the winning candidate in every election until 1940, when opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s economic and war policies gave the county to Wendell Willkie.

Since then only two Democratic presidential candidates have gained an absolute majority in the county – the more recent of these two, Jimmy Carter in 1976, doing so by a single vote.