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Raymond, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Raymond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98577. It stands on South Fork Willapa River. The Survey maps it on the Raymond quadrangle. 3,081 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Raymond within Pacific 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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Raymond grew from 2,882 to 3,081 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
20102,882
20203,081+199 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Raymond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1999Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2015Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersA 100
4 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPATRICK FIRE
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWARD CREEK
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pacific County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Raymond: 12 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone. 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
D-4 QuarryStonePast Producer
South BendClayPast Producer
Willapa No. 2ClayOccurrence
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Pit Ing CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
City of South Bend QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Johnson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
N. Willapa River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
South Bend QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pacific County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raymond in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2012: 1 heavy rain, 1 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
November 2012FloodRaymond-Heavy rain caused the Willapa River near Willapa to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Willapa River crested at 23.9 feet on November 19th at 9 pm PST, 2.9 feet above flood stage.
January 2009Heavy RainRaymond-Heavy rain resulted the closure of highway 6 outside of Raymond due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Pacific 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
East Raymond2.5 miles13
Willapa3.6 miles13
South Bend4.1 miles15
Seahaven (historical)4.8 miles15
Menlo6.4 miles12
Bruceport8.9 miles14
Firdale9.5 miles13
Holcomb10.0 miles13

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 Q1510374The 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 1507743. 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.