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Plainfield is a town in Hendricks County, Indiana, just southwest of Indianapolis and immediately west of Indianapolis International Airport.

Plainfield was laid out in 1839 by Levi Jessup and Elias Hadley on land that Elias's father Jeremiah Hadley had obtained in 1822, and it was incorporated as a town the same year.

Plainfield took its name from the early Friends, or Quakers, who settled the area - they were 'plain' people - and the town became the seat of the Western Yearly Meeting of Friends.

Plainfield High School still honors those settlers: its athletic teams are nicknamed the Quakers.

The National Road, now U.S. Route 40, runs through Plainfield as Main Street, and in 1842 former President Martin Van Buren was deliberately dumped from his stagecoach into the mud there by locals angry over his veto of a road-improvement bill - the elm tree blamed for the spill became known as the Van Buren Elm.

Plainfield has been the headquarters of the Islamic Society of North America since the 1980s.

The 2020 census counted 34,625 people in Plainfield living in 12,834 households, up sharply from 27,631 people in 2010 and just 10,433 in 1990.

Plainfield is one of the Midwest's great warehouse hubs: a 1,033-acre warehouse district on its east side employs around 5,000 people, roughly half of all warehouse jobs in central Indiana.

The Shops at Perry Crossing, a 600,000-square-foot open-air shopping center, is Plainfield's main retail destination.

Hummel Park, Plainfield's largest park at 205 acres, offers fishing lakes, sports fields, an amphitheater and a 300-foot wooden bridge across White Lick Creek.