Raymond is a city in Pacific County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,975 at the 2000 census and decreased 3.1% to 2,882 at the 2010 census. The town’s economy has traditionally been based upon logging and fishing, together afterward a limited amount of tourism.^{[citation needed]}

Raymond was incorporated upon August 6, 1907. Raymond was named after L.V. Raymond, who was the first postmaster in Raymond. In the to the fore years, Raymond’s thing section was built on stilts five or six feet above the tidelands and sloughs that crisscrossed the site. Elevated sidewalks and streets united most of the buildings. Raymond claimed a population of 6,000 in the year 1913 and had a reputation as a wild and unclear lumber mill town. City fathers resisted the unwanted reputation in imitation of promotions of Raymond as “The Empire City of Willapa Harbor” and “The City That Does Things”. Lyricist Robert Wells, who wrote “The Christmas Song” with Mel Tormé, was born in Raymond in 1922.
Raymond was the city where the grunge band Nirvana played their first gig, on March 7, 1987.

Raymond motto an influx of marijuana manufacturing and agricultural jobs after the passing of Initiative 502 in November 2012, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana. Raymond has embraced everything aspects of this lucrative industry by available many additional start-up businesses including classified ad marijuana add operations, marijuana-infused goods manufacturing, as capably as retail marijuana stores.^{[citation needed]}

Raymond is located at 46°40′47″N 123°44′17″W / 46.67972°N 123.73806°W / 46.67972; -123.73806 (46.679599, -123.738091).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.62 square miles (11.97 km²), of which, 4.06 square miles (10.52 km²) is home and 0.56 square miles (1.45 km²) is water.