Welcome to Plainville ...
Plainville is located in Adams County<1>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Plainville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1856.
Plainville is 860 feet [262 m] above sea level.<2>.
Time Zone: Plainville lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
Area Codes for Plainville: 608 & 353<3>
Communities Also Named Plainville ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 18 communities that are also named Plainville - they are located in Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts (4), New Jersey (2), New York, Ohio, Ontario (3), Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Plainville.
Communities near Plainville ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Plainville.
- Baraboo
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Reedsburg
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Reedsburg is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reedsburg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,500 people
- Mauston
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Mauston is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mauston
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,358 people
- Wisconsin Dells
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Lake Delton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Adams
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- West Baraboo
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- West Baraboo is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Baraboo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,416 people
- Westfield
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Westfield is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,268 people
- North Freedom
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- North Freedom is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Freedom
- Population from the 2020 Census: 690 people
- Friendship
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Friendship is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
- Population from the 2020 Census: 676 people
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.
We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Plainville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Plainville.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Plainville. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Plainville.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Plainville. See our Newspapers Page for Plainville.
Adding Plainville to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Plainville in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.
From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Plainville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
From that list, the Plainville post office opened in 1856. The Plainville post office closed in 1942.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Plainville.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Adams, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <2> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Plainville - it will be higher in some places and lower in others. |
| <3> | When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 608 code has been Overlayed with the 353 area code. New phone numbers in the Plainville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 608 or 353. As a result, placing a call in the Plainville area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number). |
| <4> | A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |