Foster, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Mound Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47932. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle. 104 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Foster within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

1,717 words on this township

Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Mound Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Mound Township - 1,717 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Foster: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hunt Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Interstate Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tuggles Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

25 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foster in 25 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 19 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
February 2008	Flood	Foster	$21,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Warren County due to heavy rain and snow melt.
January 2008	Flood	Foster	$20,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Warren County due to heavy rain and snow melt.
November 2013	Tornado (EF2)	Foster	$15,000	At 1422EST, this EF-2 tornado developed along the Illinois-Indiana state line, just west of Rileysburg. A church was pushed off its foundation and the exterior walls collapsed in Rileysburg. A train car was also pushed off railroad tracks and a grain elevator was damaged in Rileysburg. Two mobile homes were completely destroyed to the west-southwest of Covington. At 1425EST, the tornado moved into south-central Warren County. Some trees were downed west of Covington in Warren County. The tornado lifted 2 miles west of Covington at 1426EST.
March 2008	Flood	Foster	$15,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in eastern Warren County due to heavy rain and snow melt.
March 2008	Flood	Foster	$12,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in eastern Warren County due to heavy rain. Flooding continued until April 6th at 14:37.
May 2008	Flood	Foster	$5,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in eastern Warren County due to heavy rain.
April 2008	Flood	Foster	$5,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in eastern Warren County due to heavy rain.
June 2008	Flood	Foster	$5,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Warren County due to heavy rain.
December 2006	Flood	Foster	$5,000	The Wabash River flooded in Warren County. The river crested nearly four feet above flood stage.
December 2006	Flood	Foster	$5,000	The Wabash River flooded in Warren County. The river crested at 5 feet above flood stage.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	$1,000	A large tree was blown onto the road at West Baltimore Hill Road and State Road 263 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Traffic had to be detoured around the tree.
May 2009	Flood	Foster	$1,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River near Foster, Indiana. The river crested 8.1 feet above flood stage on May 18th at a reading of 24.1 feet. Damage costs are grossly estimated.
January 2008	Flood	Foster	$1,000	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Warren County due to heavy rain. Flooding began on December 29th and continued into January.
November 2007	Flood	Foster	$1,000	Heavy rains caused lowland flooding along the Wabash River in Warren County.
December 2007	Flood	Foster	$500	Heavy rains caused flooding along the Wabash River in Warren County.
December 2007	Flood	Foster	$500	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Warren County due to heavy rain and snow melt.
December 2007	Flood	Foster	$500	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Warren County due to heavy rain.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	-	An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.
February 2009	Flood	Foster	-	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Warren County, including near Covington in Fountain County, due to heavy rain.
March 2009	Flood	Foster	-	Extensive flooding occurred along the Wabash River near Lodi, IN. The river crested 9.69 feet above flood stage on March 13th, a reading of 25.69 feet.
May 2009	Flood	Foster	-	Flooding of bottomlands occurred along the Wabash River approximately 3.5 miles east of Foster, Indiana, which is a point near Covington, Indiana of neighboring Fountain County. The river crested 3.2 feet above flood stage on May 4th at a reading of 19.2 feet. Flooding of this magnitude typically affects low agricultural land, a county park, and backyards of river cabins. Damage costs are grossly estimated.
April 2008	Flood	Foster	-	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in eastern Warren County due to heavy rain. This flooding is a continuation of flooding that began on March 29th at 0700. Flood damage estimates from March are near twelve thousand dollars.
May 2012	Hail	Foster	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	-	no account filed
August 2002	Flash Flood	Foster	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Romine Corner	2.1 miles	11
Olin	2.2 miles	11
State Line	4.6 miles	19
Johnsonville	5.6 miles	11
Marshfield	7.1 miles	11
Old Town	8.9 miles	9
West Lebanon	9.6 miles	9
Sloan	10.7 miles	9

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 Foster	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3079731	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 434696. 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.

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.