BlockRaymond, Montana
4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Plentywood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59256. The Survey maps it on the Raymond quadrangle. It stands 2,290 feet above sea level.
On record in Raymond
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
- Raymond Grain Elevators Historic Districtlisted 1993
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 4 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Raymond quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Raymond in 2017, burning about 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 28 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.5 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 11 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.5 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 10 April 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raymond in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | Public reported, via Facebook, pictures of two power poles that were snapped at the base. |There were 8 more power poles knocked down. Times are estimated. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Raymond | - | Public reported, via Facebook, that 3.50 inches of rain fell in 90 minutes, at 4 N Raymond. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Raymond | - | Pea to quarter size hail fell, with wind gusts of of 40 to 50 mph. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Raymond | - | The hail covered the ground and lasted about 10 minutes. The size of the hail ranged from pea to quarter. Estimated that one inch of rain fell in 20 minutes. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Raymond | - | The hail ranged in size from dime to penny. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Raymond | - | The hail ranged in size from pea to quarter. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | 60 mph wind reported by U.S. Customs official at the Port of Raymond. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plentywood | 7.1 miles | 4 | |
| Midby (historical) | 9.4 miles | 4 | |
| Dooley | 10.1 miles | 4 | |
| Outlook | 10.5 miles | 4 | |
| Archer | 13.5 miles | 4 | |
| Antelope | 14.4 miles | 6 | |
| Comertown | 17.6 miles | 4 | |
| Daleview | 18.9 miles | 4 |
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 Raymond | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7298522 | The 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 775605. 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.