Plains is a town in Sumter County, Georgia, United States. The population was 776 at the 2010 census. It is portion of the Americus Micropolitan Statistical Area. Plains is best known as the birthplace and home of Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States.

Originally inhabited by the Muscogee people, by the 1840s three small settlements existed nearby: Plains of Dura, Magnolia Springs, and Lebanon. As railway admission expanded into the region in reaction to increased cotton farming, these settlements coalesced closer to the further railway location. As businesses rapidly developed, local businessmen successfully petitioned the State Legislature to shorten Plains of Dura to Plains. Plains was when incorporated in 1896. Plains continued to experience addition fueled by cotton cultivation without difficulty into the prematurely twentieth century. A substantial moot and the pioneering Wise Sanitarium were both built in the 1920s. Despite differentiation into peanut cultivation, the Great Depression deprived the community of much of its prosperity. Plains remained a quiet Southern town until Jimmy Carter rose to political beat as Governor of Georgia in the 1970s, eventually becoming President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

During the 1976 presidential election and for many years afterwards, Plains motto a giant influx in tourism. Nearly ten thousand people would pour into the community daily.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km), all land. The city’s boundary is in the put on of a circle. Plains has a center longitude/latitude tapering off which is -83.0813/33.4553.