Foster Lake

Foster Reservoir is a reservoir created by Foster Dam on the South Santiam River in the city of Foster, Oregon, United States. The reservoir is approximately 5.6 km long and covers approximately 494 ha when full.

Type: Reservoir
Description: reservoir in Linn County, Oregon, United States
Also known as: “Foster Reregulating Reservoir” and “Foster Reservoir”
Address: OR

Places of Interest

Highlights include Foster Dam.

Foster Dam

Dam

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Foster Dam is an embankment type rock-fill dam across the South Santiam River near Sweet Home, Oregon, United States. Designed by the Corps of Engineers, it began service on August 22, 1968.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Foster and Sweet Home.

Foster

Hamlet

Photo: Sword Fern, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Foster is an unincorporated community partly within the city of Sweet Home in Linn County, Oregon. It is located on the western end of the Foster Reservoir.

Sweet Home

Photo: Sword Fern, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Sweet Home is a city in Linn County, Oregon, United States, with a population of 9,828 at the 2020 census. Sweet Home is referred to as the 'Gateway to the Santiam Playground' due to its proximity to nearby lakes, rivers and the Cascade Mountains.

Foster Lake

Category: body of water
Location: Linn, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.41852° or 44° 25′ 7″ north

Longitude

-122.63719° or 122° 38′ 14″ west

Elevation

617 feet (188 metres)

Open location code

84PVC997+C4

OpenStreetMap ID

way 126628834

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=reservoir

GeoNames ID

5727350

Wikidata ID

Q5473738

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Foster Lake” goes by many names.

French: “Foster Reservoir”

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