Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Plainview, TN

Plainview is an incorporated city in Union County, Tennessee, located in the southern part of the county, south of Maynardville, the county seat, and within the Knoxville metropolitan area.

The community grew up around a school built in the 1920s; after the school closed in the mid-20th century, the Union County Board of Education donated the building to the Plainview Community Club, which converted it into a community center.

In 1981 the neighboring city of Luttrell proposed annexing Plainview, and after residents sued in the Union County Chancery Court, the court blocked the annexation but required Plainview to incorporate as a city, which it did in 1992.

Plainview is governed under a mayor-council system, and its City Hall stands on Tazewell Pike.

The 2020 census counted 2,060 people in Plainview, down slightly from 2,125 in the 2010 census.

The 2020 census counted 787 households in Plainview and 846 housing units, of which 7.0 percent were vacant.

Although Plainview is an incorporated city, the Census Bureau classified all of its residents as rural in the 2020 census.

Plainview covers about 6.4 square miles, all of it land, at the southern base of Copper Ridge, with House Mountain rising to the south and Clinch Mountain to the east, at an elevation of 1,129 feet.

Tennessee State Routes 131 (Tazewell Pike) and 144 (Corryton Road) intersect in Plainview.

Plainview has no schools of its own; younger children attend Luttrell Elementary School in Luttrell, while older students attend Horace Maynard Middle School and Union County High School in Maynardville.