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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.

Raymond within Clark County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Raymond 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.

YearPeople Change
201050
202053+3 (+6%)

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

20 since 1999

Regional 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 use7
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
1 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
26 July 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresRaymond Volunteer Fire DepartmentMILLS KOPRIVA
25 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionERICKSON
19 July 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresRaymond Volunteer Fire DepartmentMILLS - KOPRIVA
15 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNA
2 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionUS HWY & 12 DITCH FIRE
3 May 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

41 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006Flash FloodRaymond$5,000no account filed
July 2025FloodRaymond-The Clark County Emergency Manager sent photos of street flooding in the town of Raymond.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRaymond-A trained spotter estimated the wind speeds at between 60 and 70 mph.
May 2022Tornado (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 2015Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRaymond-A large tree limb was downed by sixty mph winds.
September 2013HailRaymond-Half dollar size hail caused some minor crop damage.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRaymond-An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of sixty mph was reported.
June 2012Tornado (EF0)Raymond-A tornado touched down east of Raymond and traveled over two miles before lifting. No damage was reported.
September 2010Flash FloodRaymond-Heavy rain caused the road to flood east of Raymond.
July 2010Flash FloodRaymond-Heavy rains caused the flash flooding of numerous roads across central and northern Clark county.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Sixty mph winds were estimated northeast of Raymond.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindRaymond-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 2010Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Sixty mph winds were estimated southwest of Raymond.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindRaymond-A barn was pushed off it's foundation by thunderstorm winds.
July 2016Funnel CloudRaymond-no account filed
July 2016HailRaymond-no account filed
July 2016HailRaymond-no account filed
July 2016HailRaymond-no account filed
May 2011HailRaymond-no account filed
July 2010HailRaymond-no account filed
May 2009HailRaymond-no account filed
June 2009HailRaymond-no account filed
July 2009Flash FloodRaymond-no account filed
April 2006FloodRaymond-no account filed
June 2006HailRaymond-no account filed
June 2006HailRaymond-no account filed
June 2006HailRaymond-no account filed
June 2006HailRaymond-no account filed
June 2005HailRaymond-no account filed
July 2005HailRaymond-no account filed
July 2003HailRaymond-no account filed
August 2003HailRaymond-no account filed
June 2002HailRaymond-no account filed
June 2002HailRaymond-no account filed
July 2002HailRaymond-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindRaymond-no account filed
June 2001HailRaymond-no account filed
June 2001HailRaymond-no account filed
June 1997HailRaymond-no account filed
September 1996HailRaymond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Fordham Colony10.1 miles8
Julian (historical)10.8 miles8
Merton (historical)11.0 miles8
Clark11.2 miles8
Gros (historical)12.0 miles7
Keefton (historical)12.6 miles8
Carlton (historical)14.4 miles8
Hillcrest Colony14.5 miles8

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 Q2755589The 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.