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Tensed, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Tensed census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83870. It stands on Mission Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tensed quadrangle. 84 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,562 feet above sea level.

Tensed within Benewah County

Population over time

2 figures

Tensed fell from 123 to 84 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010123
202084-39 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Tensed between 1992 and 2020, burning about 428 acres in total. 14 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning30
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2012Debris and open burning32 acresNorthern Idaho AgencySTUBBLE FIRE
6 September 1994Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyALLOT 375
5 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencyBUNNY HOP
4 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyRUPERT
27 September 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresNorthern Idaho Agency4 CORNERS #3
26 September 2006Debris and open burning15 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyFOUR CORNERS
24 September 2002Debris and open burning35 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyWHISTOCKEN
24 September 1993Debris and open burning10 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyKING 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benewah County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Tensed: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bw-1001 PitStoneProducer
Tensed MineKaolinProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Atkinson ProspectIronOccurrence
LeforsIronPast Producer
Mccleary ButteIronPast Producer
Tensed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Benewah County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tensed in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2014: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2014FloodTensed$500,000A lot of field flooding and some road washouts in the area. Deep Creek came up and washed out a culvert and the road above it. Water also surrounded some homes along Deep Creek. Damage costs were estimated.
February 1999Flash FloodTensed$250,000Heavy rain caused Hangman Creek to flood.
July 2012HailTensed-no account filed
June 2009Heavy RainTensed-no account filed
June 2006HailTensed-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benewah County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
De Smet1.0 miles8
Sanders7.6 miles10
Willard8.3 miles11
Benewah8.7 miles9
Mowry11.0 miles8
Plummer12.2 miles8
Plummer Junction12.7 miles9
North South Ski Bowl14.2 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on TensedAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1509459The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 375436. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.