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Raymond is a village in Lancaster County, Nebraska, northwest of Lincoln, and it is part of the Lincoln metropolitan statistical area.

Settlers began arriving in the Raymond area in 1864, when a subscription school was run in the home of Charles and Olive White, and in 1870 Oak Creek was dammed and a grist mill was built.

A post office named Orlando was established near the present village in 1878, two years before the village itself existed.

Raymond was platted in 1880, when the railroad was extended to that point, and it was named for I. M. Raymond, a railroad official.

Raymond was incorporated as a village in 1892, and a two-room schoolhouse was built the following year.

After Raymond's schools consolidated with neighboring districts, the high school was built near Agnew, but elementary school students still attend classes in Raymond itself.

In the automobile era Raymond was bypassed when Highway 79 was routed about a half mile west of the village rather than through it.

The village grew after Branched Oak Dam was completed in 1970, creating a large reservoir and the largest recreation area in eastern Nebraska on Raymond's doorstep.

The 2020 census counted 159 residents in Raymond; at the 2010 census the village had 167 people living in 71 households and 45 families.

Raymond covers just 0.13 square miles, all of it land, at an elevation of about 1,240 feet.