Post Falls Map
Post Falls is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States near the Idaho state line between Spokane, Washington, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The population was 17,247 at the 2000 census, and grew to 27,574 people by the 2010 census, making it Idaho's tenth largest city.
Post Falls is named for Frederick Post, a German immigrant who constructed a lumber mill along the Spokane River in 1871 on land he purchased from Andrew Seltice, Chief of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. The purchase of the land is preserved in a pictograph on a granite cliff in Treaty Rock park.
47°42?56?N 116°56?17?W / 47.71556°N 116.93806°W / 47.71556; -116.93806 (47.715552, -116.937926).
Nearby cities include Spokane Valley, Spirit Lake, Mead, Athol, Harrison.