Raymond, South Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Raymond town. It lies in ZIP code area 57258. The Survey maps it on the Raymond quadrangle. 53 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,457 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 Farmers and Citizens State Banklisted 2016
Population over time
2 figuresRaymond grew from 50 to 53 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 50 | |
| 2020 | 53 | +3 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Raymond quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Raymond between 1999 and 2017, burning about 221 acres in total. 1 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 | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 1 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 26 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Raymond Volunteer Fire Department | MILLS KOPRIVA |
| 25 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ERICKSON |
| 19 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Raymond Volunteer Fire Department | MILLS - KOPRIVA |
| 15 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | NA |
| 2 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | US HWY & 12 DITCH FIRE |
| 3 May 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Storms near this place
41 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raymond in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 23 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Flash Flood | Raymond | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Flood | Raymond | - | The Clark County Emergency Manager sent photos of street flooding in the town of Raymond. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | A trained spotter estimated the wind speeds at between 60 and 70 mph. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Raymond | - | An eyewitness observed a brief tornado touchdown while planting|a field 5 miles north and 2 miles east of Raymond, SD. No damage |occurred. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | A large tree limb was downed by sixty mph winds. |
| September 2013 | Hail | Raymond | - | Half dollar size hail caused some minor crop damage. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of sixty mph was reported. |
| June 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Raymond | - | A tornado touched down east of Raymond and traveled over two miles before lifting. No damage was reported. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Raymond | - | Heavy rain caused the road to flood east of Raymond. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Raymond | - | Heavy rains caused the flash flooding of numerous roads across central and northern Clark county. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated northeast of Raymond. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | A pole barn was completely destroyed by seventy mph winds. Two barns had their doors torn off with one sustaining roof damage. An apple tree was also broke off half way up. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated southwest of Raymond. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | A barn was pushed off it's foundation by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Flood | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Raymond | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fordham Colony | 10.1 miles | 8 | |
| Julian (historical) | 10.8 miles | 8 | |
| Merton (historical) | 11.0 miles | 8 | |
| Clark | 11.2 miles | 8 | |
| Gros (historical) | 12.0 miles | 7 | |
| Keefton (historical) | 12.6 miles | 8 | |
| Carlton (historical) | 14.4 miles | 8 | |
| Hillcrest Colony | 14.5 miles | 8 |
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 Q2755589 | 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 1257293. 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.



