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Raymond City West Virginia Map

Explore Raymond City, West Virginia, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Raymond City, West Virginia

How to Use This Raymond City, West Virginia Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Raymond City, West Virginia. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of West Virginia or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Raymond City.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Raymond City
State	West Virginia (WV)
County	Putnam County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	38.482313
Longitude	-81.818465
Population	367
Density	393.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	25159
Area Code	304
County Seat	Winfield
School District	Putnam County School District

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About Raymond City, West Virginia

Raymond City is a locality in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 367. The population density is 393.6 people per km². Raymond City is located at 38.4823°N, 81.8185°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 25159.

Raymond City emerges from the confluence of shadowed lowlands and the steady, dark pulse of the Pocatalico River, which carves a deliberate path through the heavy earth. It lies 6.4 miles east-northeast of Teays Valley, WV (from Teays Valley, WV: bearing 70°T), and is situated 7.1 miles north of St. Albans. Albans. The landscape here is defined by a slow, persistent reclamation of the soil, where the sharp, jagged edges of industrial memory soften under the persistent growth of hardwoods and tangled thickets. Nearby, the terrain tilts toward the entrance of Coal Hollow, a silent, earthen crease that holds the damp chill of the morning long after the sun has climbed above the horizon. To the north, the land rises in long, labored swells, a prelude to the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains that anchor the western sky. The air in Raymond City carries a weight of damp loam and river silt, a sensory reminder that the ground here is perennially thirsty, drinking in the runoff from the high ridges and the quiet, stagnant depth of Lake Ann Tormey, which mirrors the gray, shifting clouds of the afternoon.

Raymond City bears the weathered patina of an era when the extraction of fuel dictated the rhythm of every household and the layout of every street. While the fervor of the coal camps has long since receded, the town maintains a quiet, deliberate pace, grounded in the remnants of a working history that lingers in the rusted ironwork and the sturdy, unadorned architecture of the older dwellings. Residents often find their way toward the Amherst/Plymouth Wildlife Management Area, where the land is left to its own slow, wild devices, providing a sanctuary for the deer and hawks that outnumber the commuters. The economy has shifted away from the soot-stained intensity of the past, leaving a vacuum filled by the steady, cyclical labor of those who maintain the local infrastructure and navigate the daily trek toward busier, more modern corridors. Life in Raymond City persists in the quiet spaces between these shifts, a stubborn, localized endurance that refuses to be hurried by the frantic pace of the world beyond the ridges.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Amherst/Plymouth Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.8 mi, 008° N
Bancroft Community Park (Local Recreation) — 2.1 mi, 327° NW
Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 2.4 mi, 328° NW
Nitro City Park (Local Park) — 4.3 mi, 201° S
Ridenour Lake (Local Park) — 4.5 mi, 187° S
Indian Rock (Attraction) — 5.2 mi, 188° S
Winfield Pool Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 5.7 mi, 309° NW
Coal River Pas (State Recreation Area) — 9.7 mi, 186° S
Burial Atendants (Public Artwork) — 10.2 mi, 140° SE
Shoney's Big Boy Museum (Monument) — 11.5 mi, 134° SE
Elk City Playhouse (Theatre) — 12.7 mi, 131° SE
Sunrise Bird Sanctuary Museum (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 134° SE
Park Place Stadium Cinema 11 (Cinema) — 13.5 mi, 132° SE
Charleston Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 13.5 mi, 135° SE
Annex Gallery (Gallery) — 13.5 mi, 132° SE
Bear Wood Company (Gallery) — 13.5 mi, 133° SE
State Capitol (Monument) — 13.5 mi, 132° SE
World War 2 (Monument) — 13.5 mi, 132° SE
WV market gallery (Gallery) — 13.6 mi, 133° SE
Walker Theatre (Theatre) — 13.8 mi, 132° SE
Kanawha State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 14.4 mi, 161° S
University of Charleston Stadium (Stadium) — 14.6 mi, 131° SE
West Virginia State Museum (Museum) — 14.9 mi, 132° SE
Frankenberger Art Gallery (Museum) — 15.0 mi, 133° SE
Nature preserve (Viewpoint) — 15.4 mi, 139° SE
Mill Creek Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 15.7 mi, 273° W
Falling Rock Smoke stack (Historic Ruins) — 23.5 mi, 094° E
Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.0 mi, 349° N · 6,562 acres
Wayne National Forest (National Forest) — 31.0 mi, 307° NW · 243k acres
Gauley River National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 41.8 mi, 115° SE · 5,067 acres

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