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History · Foster Township

Half of Foster Township’s homes were built after 1981

Most of Foster Township was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Below: maps from 1965 on.

0on the National Register
6%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Foster Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Foster Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Foster Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Foster Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Beaver Lake
1873–1911
Damon
1880–1911
Piper
1882–1892
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Damon
Gone or out of use
Beaver Lake Post Officepost officeDamon Post Officepost officePiper Post Officepost officeRose City Oil Fieldoilfield
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Foster Township
Beaver LakeDamonFisk

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Foster Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Foster Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Foster Township is a civil township of Ogemaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 788 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 843 to 788 (-7%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Foster Township, 1873 to 1965

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1873Post officeThe Beaver Lake post office opens
  3. 1880Post officeThe Damon post office opens
  4. 1882Post officeThe Piper post office opens
  5. 1892Post officeThe Piper post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1911Post officeThe Beaver Lake post office closes
  8. 1911Post officeThe Damon post office closes
  9. 1965On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Foster Township on the map, 1965 to 1983

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Foster Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Foster Township on the 1965 USGS mapFoster Township on the 1983 USGS map1965St Helen NE sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Foster Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Rose TownshipIts storyCKlacking TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRichfield TownshipIts storyDOgemaw TownshipIts storyC−Au Sable TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBig Creek TownshipIts storyC−

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.