Foster, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

Foster, Wisconsin
Foster, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
	Foster Foster
	Coordinates: 44°38′35″N 91°18′43″W / 44.64306°N 91.31194°W
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Eau Claire
Elevation	298 m (978 ft)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	715 & 534
GNIS feature ID	1565162

Foster is an unincorporated community in the town of Clear Creek in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States.^[1]^[2] It lies approximately 9 miles south-southwest of Fall Creek, 7 miles southeast of Cleghorn, and 6 miles northwest of Osseo. Located primarily along Eau Claire County Highway "HH", it is flanked on the west by U.S. Highway 53 and on the east by Interstate 94, being the site of I-94's exit #81 in Wisconsin, placing it 11 miles southeast along the freeway from southeastern Eau Claire and 7 miles northwest of Osseo.

History

The community was originally called Emmett, but the name was changed to Foster in honor of George E. Foster, who financed the Fairchild and North-Eastern Railway, which ran from Foster to Fairchild in 1912.^[3]

Two people were killed by an F3 tornado that struck Foster on August 27, 1994.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Foster, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ Foster, Wisconsin
^ Our Story 'The Chippewa Valley and Beyond' Archived September 28, 2005, at the Wayback Machine. Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, 1976.
^ Significant and potentially significant tornadoes in northern Wisconsin since 1980

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[gnis-1] "Foster, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.

[2] Foster, Wisconsin

[3] Our Story 'The Chippewa Valley and Beyond' Archived September 28, 2005, at the Wayback Machine. Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, 1976.

[4] Significant and potentially significant tornadoes in northern Wisconsin since 1980

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v t e Municipalities and communities of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States
County seat: Eau Claire
Cities	Altoona Augusta Eau Claire‡
Villages	Fairchild Fall Creek
Towns	Bridge Creek Brunswick Clear Creek Drammen Fairchild Lincoln Ludington Otter Creek Pleasant Valley Seymour Union Washington Wilson
CDP	Seymour
Other communities	Allen Brackett Candy Corners Cleghorn Foster Hale Corner Hay Creek Ludington Lufkin Mount Hope Corners Nix Corner Rodell Truax Union Wilson
Ghost towns	Hadleyville Nelsonville Oak Grove Porter's Mills
Indian reservation	Ho-Chunk Indian Reservation‡
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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Foster, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 44°38′35″N 91°18′43″W / 44.64306°N 91.31194°W / 44.64306; -91.31194
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Eau Claire
Elevation	298 m (978 ft)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	715 & 534
GNIS feature ID	1565162^[1]