Raymond, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Raymond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72069. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Raymond within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1940 USGS Holly Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Holly Grove quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000
1974 USGS Holly Grove quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Raymond (historical) between 1999 and 2019, burning about 1,176 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Debris and open burning	173 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Debris and open burning	39 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	155 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2007	Smoking	141 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	HOLLY GROVE
22 August 2000	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 October 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Blackton	2.4 miles	14
Perman (historical)	2.8 miles	14
Towle (historical)	3.0 miles	14
Pine City	3.5 miles	14
Palmer	4.5 miles	14
Smale	5.3 miles	14
Holly Grove	5.7 miles	14
Ragtown	6.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 61133. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.