Lind was first settled in 1888 on a relatively barren area along the Northern Pacific Railway's main line by the Neilson Brothers, James and Dugal.

[4] In the autumn of 1888 the Neilson Brothers built the first Lind residence and two years later they built and stocked a store and resumed postal service which until then had been processed in Ritzville and tossed off in town by passing trains.

The Neilson Brothers platted the town site on June 7, 1890, which consisted of only four square blocks.

[5] By 1899 the panic was starting to wear off and the local wheat crop, of high quality, was growing in demand.

A new post office and saloon were built and a lumber yard was started and by the end of the year, the population was nearing 100.

[5] The Milwaukee Road would later lay its tracks through the south side of town, which is now the John Wayne Pioneer Trail.

When the Neilson brothers platted the town site of Lind, they named all of the north to south streets to eventually spell out their surname.

High School has changed mascots many times some of which are Lind Bulldogs, Lind-Kahlotus Blue Devils, Lind-Ritzville Broncos, and the current Lind-Ritzville-Sprague Broncos which is classified as a 2B school according to the WIAA.

Old time rival the Rearden Indians has been kept, but due to the great success with the local football program, it has been the very challenging Colfax Bulldogs.

Also, due to state funding, the local high school will move to the nearby town of Ritzville, WA.

[4] On August 4, 2022, the entire town was ordered to evacuate due to an approaching wildfire, which destroyed 10 homes.

[6] Local highways were also shut down while firefighters moved into the area to control the wildfire.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.07 square miles (2.77 km2), all of it land.

Lind is the home of a combine demolition derby that is held annually in June.

It has received much publicity over the past couple years when it was featured in Playboy's 50th Year Anniversary Special Edition issue, Discovery Channel, the movie "Always", Hamish and Andy (Australia), ESPN, KHQ's "The Derby", and also in Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk.