The third layer of culture consists of cultural universals. These are learned behavior patterns that are shared by all of humanity collectively. No matter where people live in the world, they share these universal traits.
Kootenai County where Spirit Lake resides is 1,315.69 square miles. The resident population of this county is 108,685 and has a population rank of 496 out of all the places in the United States. Spirit Lake has a total of 1,376 people and of those residents there are 669 males and 707 females. The median age of the male population is 36.8 and the female population is 34.8. There are approximately 1,507 births each year and around 873 deaths.
The town of Blanchard, located on Idaho State Highway 41 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northwest of Spirit Lake was named for Joe Blanchard, an early settler who moved away to Kootenai Lake in Canada. Blanchard is 35 miles north of Coeur d'Alene and 40 miles south of Sandpoint, in North Idaho and has a post office with ZIP code 83804. R. C. Blackwell of the Panhandle Lumber Company, which operated sawmills at Spirit Lake, Idaho and at Ione, Washington, promoted the railroad, which came through Blanchard in 1908.