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Raywick, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Raywick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40060. It stands on Slate Creek. The Survey maps it on the Raywick quadrangle. 155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Raywick within Marion County

On record in Raywick

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Raywick grew from 134 to 155 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
2010134
2020155+21 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Raywick between 1998 and 2019, burning about 300 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
5 March 2017Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCLEAR CREEK
5 March 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySPENCER HAMILTON
22 March 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2016Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAZY DOWNS RD. FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Raywick: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rolling Fork Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raywick in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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 2010Flash FloodRaywick$2,000Heavy rainfall caused water to flow over a bridge on St. Francis Highway near Raywick. Debris from the water also blocked the roadway.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindRaywick-Wind damage was reported along Hazy Downs Road outside of Raywick.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindRaywick-Trees were blown over in Raywick.
July 2015HailRaywick-A trained spotter reported hail 1.25 inches in diameter.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindRaywick-The Marion County emergency manager reported a tree down across McCauley Road, which is located around 8 miles west of Lebanon.
March 2006HailRaywick-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindRaywick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Horseshoe Bend (historical)2.7 miles8
Cherry Run (historical)2.8 miles8
Downs (historical)2.8 miles8
McCauley (historical)3.0 miles8
Saint Joseph3.4 miles8
Sulpher Lick Creek (historical)3.6 miles8
Frogtown3.7 miles6
Highview (historical)3.9 miles9

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 RaywickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2242164The 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 501630. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.