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Raymond, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Raymond City. It lies in ZIP code area 56282. The Survey maps it on the Raymond quadrangle. 782 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.

Raymond within Kandiyohi County

Population over time

2 figures

Raymond grew from 764 to 782 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
2010764
2020782+18 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

1 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Raymond in 1992, burning about 46 acres in total. None 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
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
24 March 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresLitchfield Wetland Management DistrictRAYMOND

Every fire recorded in Kandiyohi County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raymond in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRaymond$5,000Mobile home damaged.
June 2025Heavy RainRaymond-Report of damage to several roads and many basements with water and sewage. Impacts from heavy rain were mainly across the southern half of Kandiyohi County, including a Trailer Park in the town of Raymond.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRaymond-A few trees and power lines were down.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2016HailRaymond-A large swath of hail up to golf ball size occurred between Pennock, Raymond, southeast to Svea. Some of the hail caused crop damage across the southern half of Kandiyohi County.
June 2010HailRaymond-Several areas from Raymond, to west of Prinsburg, Minnesota, had golfball size hail.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Measured with anemometer.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Trees and power lines downed.
September 2005HailRaymond-Golf ball sized hail fell on the west side of town.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Trees and power lines were downed onto 2nd and 3rd streets.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindRaymond-A tree was blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Numerous trees down, including one on a house in Raymond.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Estimated winds. A few trees down.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Tree blown down. Estimated windspeed.
June 2007HailRaymond-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudRaymond-no account filed
August 1996HailRaymond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kandiyohi 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
Prinsburg6.3 miles9
Priam6.3 miles9
Roseland8.7 miles9
Pennock9.8 miles9
Parkwood Estates11.3 miles10
Svea11.5 miles10
Blomkest12.5 miles9
Willmar12.7 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 Q1924489The 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 649852. 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.