Foraker is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Union Township, Elkhart County,

Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...

History

Foraker was founded in 1892 when the Wabash Railroad was extended to that point. It was named for

Joseph B. Foraker Joseph Benson Foraker (July 5, 1846 – May 10, 1917) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 37th governor of Ohio from 1886 to 1890 and as a United States senator from Ohio from 1897 until 1909. Foraker was ...

, the 37th Governor of Ohio. The Foraker post office was discontinued in 1966.

References

Unincorporated communities in Elkhart County, Indiana Unincorporated communities in Indiana {{ElkhartCountyIN-geo-stub