Country United States County Benewah GNIS feature ID 397609 Area 248 ha Local time Saturday 12:58 PM Area code 208 | State Idaho Time zone Pacific (PST) (UTC-8) Elevation 792 m Zip code 83824 Population 175 (2010) | |
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Weather 1°C, Wind SW at 13 km/h, 82% Humidity | ||
De Smet (also spelled Desmet) is an unincorporated census-designated place in the northwestern United States, on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation in Benewah County, Idaho.
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Map of De Smet, ID 83824, USA
It is located near U.S. Route 95, about a mile (1.6 km) south of Tensed, which was originally Temsed (De Smet spelled backwards). De Smet has a post office with a ZIP code of 83824. As of the 2010 census, its population was 175, and its elevation is approximately 2,600 feet (790 m) above sea level.
It was named for Belgian priest Pierre De Smet, a 19th-century Jesuit missionary who worked with the natives of western North America for most of his life.
Climate
This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, De Smet has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.