Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Plainville, KS

Plainville is a city in southern Rooks County in north-central Kansas, located at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 183 and Kansas Highway 18.

Plainville began in 1877 when Washington Irving Griffin settled along a freight trail in an area known as Paradise Flats — also called 'Hunter's Paradise' for its plentiful buffalo, deer and antelope — and Justice of the Peace Lambert P. Darland suggested the name 'Plainville' for Griffin's post office application.

Griffin operated the Plainville post office, established in 1878, and a small store out of his sod house, the first structure in what became the city.

The Union Pacific Railroad built through Plainville in August 1888, and that same year the city incorporated with 500 residents and elected Dan E. Miller as its first mayor.

Oil was discovered in Rooks County in 1927, and the resulting boom transformed Plainville in the 1940s and 1950s; the Bemis-Shutts oil field in the Saline River valley south of town is one of the largest oil producers in Kansas.

The 2020 census counted 1,746 people in Plainville, living in 784 households with 921 total housing units.

The Plainville Mill & Elevator Company, established in 1893, was a major employer and buyer of locally grown wheat.

Plainville students attend USD 270 schools, and the city is home to the Rooks County Health Center, which serves the surrounding region.

Paradise Creek flows past Plainville, and southwest of the city the creek has been dammed to form the Plainville Township Lake reservoir.

The nine-hole public Rooks County Golf Course is located about five miles north of Plainville.