Plain City is a village in Madison and Union counties in the U.S. state of Ohio, along Big Darby Creek. The population was 4,225 at the 2010 census. According to the qualified website, their mission statement is “to manage with integrity and fiscal responsibility providing feel services and programs to promote prosperity, safety and the well-being of our citizens and community”.

Until about 1800, the Ohio Country was inhabited by Mingo and Wyandot Indians, and there was an Indian village just north of present-day Plain City. After 1795, as white settlers began upsetting into the region, the Place around present-day Plain City was referred to as Pleasant Valley. This pronounce remained in use into the 20th century, appearing in the Ohio Guide of the late Depression era.

In 1814, Isaac Bigelow travelled to the Place from Centre County, Pennsylvania to pay for house purchased from his uncle, then returned to Pennsylvania to examination medicine once his father. He returned in 1817, and granted in the Pleasant Valley Place in 1818. He hired a surveyor named David Chapman, and laid out the town of Westminster upon June 11, 1818. At the time, Westminster lay wholly within Darby Township in Madison County. In 1820, when Union County was formed, the county origin was moved to the middle of Westminster. In 1823, the previous survey was resurveyed, additional territory was incorporated, and the town’s publicize was misused from Westminster to Pleasant Valley. From 1832 to 1851, there were six additions to the town limits. In 1851, due to there already being out of the ordinary town in Ohio named Pleasant Valley, the town misused its declare to Plain City.

Previous to 1850, Plain City was a smaller trading point than Amity, but after a trunk-line for the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad was laid through its corporation limits, business and manufacturing increased dramatically. The corporation limits were lengthy in 1868. As of 1875, the town contained five churches, one newspaper, one bank, one brick planing mill, one flour mill, four abstemious goods stores, three drug stores, three grocery stores, one jewelry store, one hotel, one carriage and wagon store, two harness shops, two wagon shops, two blacksmith shops, and a boot and shoe store.