Foster is an

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in the town of Clear Creek in Eau Claire County,

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. 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

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and on the east by

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, being the site of I-94's exit #81 in Wisconsin, placing it 11 miles southeast along the

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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 The Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad was a common-carrier railroad organized in 1897, the successor road of several earlier logging lines of the N.C. Foster Lumber Company of Fairchild, Wisconsin. It originally connected Fairchild with Foster, ...

, which ran from Foster to

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in 1912. Two people were killed by an F3

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that struck Foster on August 27, 1994.Significant and potentially significant tornadoes in northern Wisconsin since 1980
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Significant and potentially significant tornadoes in northern Wisconsin since 1980
Unincorporated communities in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin {{EauClaireCountyWI-geo-stub