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Raymond, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Raymond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67573. The Survey maps it on the Raymond quadrangle. 85 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,726 feet above sea level.

Raymond within Rice County

Population over time

2 figures

Raymond grew from 79 to 85 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
201079
202085+6 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Raymond between 1994 and 2018, burning about 5,325 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None 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
Natural6
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 August 2003Natural13 acresQuivira National Wildlife RefugeJENNY
26 August 2014Naturalunder an acreQuivira National Wildlife RefugeEAST SALT CREEK
18 August 2011Natural2.0 acresQuivira National Wildlife Refuge190TH STREET
29 July 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service729
21 June 1994Naturalunder an acreQuivira National Wildlife RefugeCOTTONWOOD
13 April 1997Naturalunder an acreQuivira National Wildlife RefugeMEGGERS
11 April 2001Debris and open burning350 acresQuivira National Wildlife RefugeWINDY WED.
16 March 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,960 acresQuivira National Wildlife RefugeSYLVIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rice County

Storms near this place

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raymond in 14 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
May 2019FloodRaymond$100Numerous roads were impacted by high water from Chase to Sterling in southern Rice county.
May 2019Tornado (EFU)Raymond-Brief touchdown over open country. No damage was reported or surveyed.
December 2016Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Although no damage was reported, there were heavy rains.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Estimated gust reported by trained spotter.
November 2012HailRaymond-Wind gusts to 60 mph were also reported with the large hail.
November 2012Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Large hail to quarter size was also reported.
April 2012Tornado (EF1)Raymond-This tornado moved in from Stafford County. A large metal machine shed was destroyed with sheet metal debris wrapped around numerous trees and fence posts to the east and north of farm house. All windows blown out on farm home, roof lifted with chimney sheared off and numerous punctures in siding. Section of metal fence tossed into window of home.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Raymond-Brief touchdown caused no damage.
May 2019HailRaymond-no account filed
April 2012HailRaymond-no account filed
April 2009HailRaymond-no account filed
May 2007HailRaymond-no account filed
August 2005HailRaymond-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindRaymond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rice 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
Silica5.7 miles14
Alden6.0 miles14
Chase6.4 miles14
Sterling12.0 miles14
Lyons12.3 miles14
Saxman15.4 miles14
Pollard16.1 miles14
Bushton16.3 miles13

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 Q2461599The 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 475779. 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.

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.