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Plain City is a village in Madison County, Ohio, that also extends into Union County, sitting along Big Darby Creek about 20 miles northwest of Columbus.

Plain City was first platted on June 11, 1818, by Isaac Bigelow, who laid out the town under the name Westminster.

The town was resurveyed and renamed Pleasant Valley in 1823, then changed its name to Plain City in 1851 because another Ohio town was already called Pleasant Valley.

Before 1850 Plain City was a smaller trading point than nearby Amity, but business boomed after a trunk-line railroad — later part of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad — was laid through the village.

The Farmers National Bank building, built in 1902 at the corner of State Route 161 and Chillicothe Street with its well-known clock tower, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Plain City had 4,065 residents at the 2020 census, and Census Bureau survey estimates for 2020–2024 put it at about 1,550 households.

The Big Darby Creek that runs through Plain City is both a state and national scenic river, noted for exceptional biological diversity, including more than 86 species of fish.

The area around Plain City has a strong German and agricultural heritage, and an Amish settlement founded near the village in 1896 lasted until it finally dissolved in 2011.

Plain City students attend the Jonathan Alder Local School District, which is named for Jonathan Alder, a frontiersman captured and adopted by a Mingo family as a boy who later settled along Big Darby Creek.

Plain City is one of the fastest-growing communities in the Columbus area, and village officials expect its population to keep climbing toward city status, which Ohio grants at 5,000 residents.