Tensed, ID

Tensed is a city in Benewah County, Idaho, United States. The 2020 census counted 84 residents. The city is within the Coeur d'Alene Reservation, and is accessed by U.S. Route 95, the state's primary north–south highway. The city was originally called Desmet, after the Belgian Jesuit missionary Pierre-Jean De Smet, who was active with the Coeur d'Alene nation, but the post office requested a change as that name was taken by nearby De Smet. That mix gives Tensed a clear local shape within Idaho, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. The name was reversed to Temsed and then misspelled by the post office. Latah Creek flows half a mile south of Tensed, approximately halfway between the community and the neighboring community of De Smet.