Foster, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Ann Arbor Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48103. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ann Arbor West quadrangle.

Foster within Washtenaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1902 USGS Dexter quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Ann Arbor quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1906 USGS Dexter quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1908 USGS Ann Arbor quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Ann Arbor West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

26 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Foster between 2018 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SCIO TOWNSHIP FD 0821457 - 2018
29 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANN ARBOR FD 0823638 - 2018
28 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SCIO TOWNSHIP FD 0823523 - 2018
9 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANN ARBOR FD 0818772 - 2018
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SCIO TOWNSHIP FD 0818487 - 2018
5 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANN ARBOR FD 0818413 - 2018
4 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DEXTER AREA FD 0000629 - 2018
30 July 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000445 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Foster: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Emery. 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
Ervin Indus Inc--Ann Arbor, Mich.	Emery	Producer
Dunston Pit No 8	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Killins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
O E Gooding & Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
O E Gooding & Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pleasant Hills Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Washtenaw County Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Washtenaw County Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Washtenaw 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
Barton Hills	0.8 miles	17
Delhi Mills	1.9 miles	17
Scio	3.2 miles	17
Northfield	3.5 miles	22
Ann Arbor	4.2 miles	22
Webster	5.7 miles	19
Dexter	5.9 miles	19
Emery	6.1 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 626306. 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.