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Raymond, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Raymond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62560. The Survey maps it on the Raymond quadrangle. 949 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 639 feet above sea level.

Raymond within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Raymond fell from 1,006 to 949 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,006
2020949-57 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raymond in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999Tornado (F3)Raymond1 killed, 4 hurtno account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindRaymond$20,000Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage between Raymond and the Witt/Nokomis area. Numerous trees, tree limbs and some power lines were blown down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRaymond$300Large trees and power lines were blown down across much of the county.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindRaymond$300Winds gusted to 70 mph uprooting several trees.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRaymond$200Large trees and power lines were blown down across much of the county.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindRaymond-KTVI provided a report of winds gusting to an estimated 60 mph along the leading edge of a thunderstorm.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Thunderstorm winds snapped off a 20 foot tall aluminum flagpole near the base.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines on the northeast side of Raymond, as well as numerous tree limbs.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs around town. A couple of homes had a few shingles blown off.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines around town.
April 2016Tornado (EF0)Raymond-Intermittent brief touchdowns recorded by storm chasers in open fields to the west, south and southeast of Raymond. No damage was observed. The tornado has been rated EF0 with a path length of 4.94 miles and a max path width of 25 yards.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindRaymond-A line of thunderstorms moved through the area. In Raymond, a gutter was torn off of a house and numerous large tree limbs were blown down. In Litchfield, several large trees were blown down as well as several power lines.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Thunderstorm winds blew part of the roof off of a large barn...just east of Interstate 55 just south of Illinois Route 48.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Several large tree limbs were blown down in Raymond.
February 2008Flash FloodRaymond-Two to three inches of rain fell over portions of Montgomery county during the afternoon and evening hours on February 5th. Six to eight inches of water was over Illinois Route 127 just west of Raymond.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees and power lines across town. Virtually the entire town was without power for about two hours. At least 8 homes had trees or large limbs fall on the roofs.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Storm spotters reported power lines down in Raymond.
May 1993HailRaymond-Golf ball-sized hail was reported in west-central Montgomery County along Interstate 55 west of Raymond.
August 1993HailRaymond-Thunderstorm winds blew down road signs on Interstate 55 near the Macoupin/Montgomery County line.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRaymond-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRaymond-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRaymond-no account filed
June 1998HailRaymond-no account filed
April 1997Tornado (F0)Raymond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Harvel3.3 miles13
Zanesville4.3 miles10
Shop Creek4.9 miles10
Honey Bend5.2 miles13
Waggoner5.9 miles12
Sunrise Hills6.4 miles12
Stagecoach Junction7.3 miles12
Barnett7.6 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on RaymondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671846The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 416427. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.