Fosters, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fosters census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35463. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fosters quadrangle. It stands 151 feet above sea level.

Fosters within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1924 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Fosters quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Fosters between 1995 and 2019, burning about 436 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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 burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	WESLEY CHAPEL RD. - FOSTERS, AL
19 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fosters: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fosters Ferry Bridge Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Storms near this place

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fosters in 29 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2002	Hail	Fosters	$400,000	A supercell thunderstorm moved across southern Tuscaloosa County causing considerable damage. The storm dropped hail from pea to baseball size. The hail fell across the southern areas of Tuscaloosa, Fosters, Ralph, Taylorville, and Duncanville. In the city of Tuscaloosa, one business, 22 apartment buildings, and 122 homes were damaged from the large hail. Across the southern parts of the county, numerous trees and power lines were blown down and many areas were temporarily without power. No injuries were reported.
March 2000	Tornado (F0)	Fosters	$50,000	A tornado touched down just northeast of the city of Fosters, near Moody Swamp and US 11. The tornado tracked just east of north and crossed the Black Warrior River before dissipating. Numerous trees were knocked down along the path. Several buildings received minor damage and one building suffered extensive damage. Several houses and mobile homes sustained varying amounts of damage.
February 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	$50,000	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Fosters	$40,000	A swath of hail, ranging from the size of nickels up to the size of golf balls, was reported from the Fosters community northeastward into the southwestern portions of the city of Tuscaloosa. Several vehicles were damaged by golf ball sized hail at the intersection of US-11 and Gainsville Road, just east of Fosters.
March 2005	Hail	Fosters	$27,000	Dime to golf ball size fell across a large part of Tuscaloosa County. The hail was associated with a left member of a splitting thunderstorm. Some of the cities that reported hail include the Romulus community, Coker, Northport, Tuscaloosa, Holt, the Alberta City community, and Lake Tuscaloosa.
July 2007	Lightning	Fosters	$25,000	Lightning struck a house on Dry Creek Road, causing it to catch on fire.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	$13,000	Numerous trees were blown down near Fosters.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	$10,000	A mobile home was damaged by thunderstorm winds in the Fosters Community.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	$3,000	Several trees were blown down on CR 2 between Romulus and Coker.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	$3,000	Several trees and power lines were knocked down on Gainesville Road in the Fosters community.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	$3,000	A few trees and power lines were knocked down in Fosters and in Ralph.
August 2000	Hail	Fosters	$3,000	Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported in Fosters and in Sipsey.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	$2,000	Several trees were blown down at the intersection of US-11 and Gainsville Road, in the Fosters community.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	$2,000	Trees were blown down on Gainesville Road, north of Frog Ridge Road.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	$2,000	Large trees were blown down.
October 1997	Hail	Fosters	$2,000	Three-quarter inch hail was reported in Fosters, in the southwest part of the county.
April 2005	Hail	Fosters	$1,000	Quarter size hail was observed in Fosters.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	$500	Power lines were blown down on US-11 near the Fosters community.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	-	Power lines were downed in Fosters.
May 2024	Hail	Fosters	-	Nickel-size hail fell along US 11/43 near the Black Warrior River.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	-	Several trees were blown down around Romulus.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	-	Several trees were blown down around Fosters.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Fosters	-	Several trees uprooted in the town of Romulus.
February 2019	Flood	Fosters	-	Heavy rainfall over a several day period produced flooding along the Black Warrior River. Many tributaries connected to the Black Warrior River also flooded, resulting in road closures around the city of Fosters.
May 2003	Funnel Cloud	Fosters	-	A funnel cloud was reported in the Fosters area.
May 2003	Hail	Fosters	-	Penny to quarter size hail was observed near the Romulus community.
February 2007	Hail	Fosters	-	no account filed
October 2007	Funnel Cloud	Fosters	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Fosters	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscaloosa 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mountainbrook	1.0 miles	14
Sylvan	1.7 miles	14
Romulus Acres	4.3 miles	15
Romulus	5.1 miles	10
Shadowood	5.1 miles	10
Kings Acres	5.4 miles	17
Ralph	5.7 miles	10
Berkshire Estates	5.7 miles	15

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 Fosters	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679102	The 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 156372. 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.