Tensaw River

The Tensaw River is a river in Baldwin [County, Alabama]. The name "Tensaw" is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people.

Overview

It is a distributary of the Mobile River, about long. It is formed as a bayou of the Mobile roughly south of the formation of the Mobile by the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, at.
The Tensaw flows alongside the Mobile and Middle Rivers, with the Tensaw being the easternmost flowing river. Numerous back channels extend off the main channel into Baldwin County. It enters Mobile Bay at, near Blakeley and Pinto Islands and around east of downtown Mobile.