Plain City (Ohio)

Union County Madison County

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Plain City is a village in Union County and Madison County in the U.S. state of Ohio.

The village is also a separate collection area for the census, which is conducted by the United States Census Bureau. This area covers an area of 4.7 km ² ( 1.8 sq mi). The population was 2,832 at the 2000 census population.

History

The village of Plain City was founded in 1818 by Isaac Bigelow. At the time the area was settled by farmers, including many were German.

The town received in 1851 a railway station of the Columbus, Indiana, and Piqua Railroad ( went in the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad 'on ). The main route as Panhandle route became known leading from Pittsburgh to Chicago and St. Louis. In the 1920s, the station became an important Viehverladestation, from the slaughterhouses of Chicago were supplied was.

Through the village flows the Big Derby Creek, which flooded the village a few times already. The biggest flood in 1959, the last major 1997 On 12 July 1966, the village was hit by a tornado again after more than 50 years, which caused major damage.; so around 100 large, partly 150 -year-old oak trees were knocked over or damaged in Past Time Park.