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Foster, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Foster census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41043. It stands on Lick Run. The Survey maps it on the Moscow quadrangle. It stands 528 feet above sea level.

Foster within Bracken County

On record in Foster

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Foster between 2002 and 2007, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 February 2002Recreation and ceremony11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bracken County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Foster: 1 plant, 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Black River Mining LimekilnStone, Crushed/Broken, CalciumPlant
Pendleton County UndergroundStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Bracken County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foster in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Flash FloodFoster$20,000A portion of the AA Highway near Foster was washed out. Western Route 8 also had high water and Ruf Road was washed out.
August 2012Flash FloodFoster$20,000Holts creek road was impassible south of the AA Highway due to high water over the road caused by heavy rainfall. A house along the road was also flooded.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFoster$5,000Several trees were downed.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindFoster$5,000Numerous trees were downed in the Foster area.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFoster$5,000Several reports of downed trees were received in the Foster Area.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindFoster$5,000A barn was destroyed.
May 2003HailFoster$3,000A few trees were knocked down along with the large hail.
November 1996Thunderstorm WindFoster$3,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFoster$1,000A couple of trees were downed on Route 8 due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2012FloodFoster$1,000High water due to heavy rainfall was reported on Holts Creek Road.
April 2025HailFoster-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bracken 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Willow Grove2.3 miles13
Bradford3.7 miles13
Lenoxburg4.0 miles6
Johnsville4.7 miles13
Wellsburg6.1 miles11
Rock Springs6.8 miles11
Woolcott7.5 miles8
Berlin7.7 miles6

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 FosterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5857286The 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 517057. 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.