Raymond, KS

Raymond is a city in Rice County, Kansas, United States. The 2020 census counted 85 residents. Raymond is named after Emmons Raymond, former Director of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. For millennia, the land now known as Kansas was inhabited by Native Americans. Labor Day Parade, has been held in Raymond since 1997. The through line in Raymond is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Raymond makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. In 1803, most of modern Kansas was secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase.