title: Fostoria, Michigan
text: # Fostoria, Michigan
  
  Fostoria is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Watertown Township, Tuscola County, Michigan, United States. Its population was 694 as of the 2010 census. Fostoria has a post office with ZIP code 48435.
  
  ## Geography
  
  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the community has an area of 3.861 square miles (10.00 $km^2),$ of which 3.860 square miles (10.00 $km^2)$ is land and 0.001 square miles (0.0026 $km^2)$ is water.
  
  ## History
  
  Michigan Governor Henry H. Crapo once owned most of the pine forestland in the area and had a line of the Pere Marquette Railway run through Fostoria. The community was named in 1881 for Crapo's foreman, Thomas Foster. Its first post office operated from July 1882 until May 1883.
  
  