Tensaw is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.

It is part of the Daphne–Fairhope–Foley Micropolitan Statistical Area and is the home of historic Fort Mims.

The name Tensaw is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people.

[4] Below are structures that were located in Tensaw that were recorded in the Historic American Buildings Survey:

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