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Location in Windham County and the state of Connecticut.
Plainfield is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States.
The town comprises four villages: Plainfield (south, ZIP code 06374), Moosup (northeast, 06354), Wauregan (northwest, 06387), and Central Village (west, 06332).
The entire town is serviced by the 860 region code.
Plainfield was incorporated in 1699 as the town of Quinebaug and retitled the following year to its current name.
Plainfield proved to be an industrialized heavyweight in the 19th and early 20th centuries due largely to the ability of the Moosup and Quinebaug Rivers to furnish power to the different mills throughout town.
Combined with the mills, Plainfield had incredible commerce for a small town because four stockyards s from Hartford, New York, Boston, and Providence intersected inside the town.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 43.0 square miles (111.5 km ), of which, 42.3 square miles (109.5 km ) of it is territory and 0.8 square miles (2.0 km ) of it (1.81%) is water.
From the southernmost point, Plainfield is 20 miles inland of the Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound (Atlantic Ocean).
Plainfield is the southernmost town of Windham County.
The Moosup River feeds the Quinebaug and runs athwart the northern portion of town.
Plainfield is bisected by the Connecticut Turnpike (I-395 and CT 695) and is serviced by three exits: Lathrop Road at exit 87, CT 14 - A at exit 88, and CT 14 at exit 89.
Exit 90 off I-395 North is in Plainfield, but does not offer access to any Plainfield streets.
CT 12 generally runs alongside to the west of the Turnpike, and is less than one-half mile from all three Turnpike exits.
There is no direct air, passenger rail, or navigable water access to Plainfield, although the town is serviced by the Providence and Worcester Railroad (freight only), which also alongsides the Connecticut Turnpike corridor.
There is no enhance transport fitness available in the town; combined with a lack of a sidewalk and/or segregated cycle facilities network and the large region of the town, this necessitates that most transit is done by car.
See also: List of Connecticut locations by per capita income As of the census of 2000, there were 14,619 citizens , 5,444 homeholds, and 3,908 families residing in the town.
The populace density was 345.9 citizens per square mile (133.5/km ).
In the town, the populace was spread out with 26.9% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 32.1% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $42,851, and the median income for a family was $47,447.
The per capita income for the town was $18,706.
About 5.4% of families and 7.0% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 8.2% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over.
The Plainfield Board of Education (also Plainfield Public Schools) is responsible for the operation of schools, and operates seven facilities throughout the town.
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