Raymond Township is a township in Rice County, Kansas, in the United States. [1]
A township in the United States is a small geographic area.
Rice County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 10,083. The largest city and county seat is Lyons. The county was named in memory of Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier-General, United States volunteers, killed April 30, 1864, at Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas.
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Raymond Township was established in 1874. [2]
