Plain City is a city in Weber County, Utah located in a scenic environment between Great Salt Lake and the Bear River Mountains of the Wasatch Range. Ogden is the main city and county seat of Weber County. Additionally Ogden is also the main city of the Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes nearby Davis and Morgan counties and a total population of over half a million people.

Ogden is a major center in Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Statistical Area of business, culture, education, entertainment, recreation, and transportation.

Ogden is within a well developed transportation network by air, roads, and rail. Interstate 15 and Interstate 84 jointly run through the city and branch off in the nearby city of Roy. Interstate 15 runs directly to Salt Lake City, which is about 35 miles away. Frontrunner is a commuter rail service operated by Utah Transit Authority that runs to Salt Lake City. The Ogden Intermodal Hub near the historic Union Station provides bus connections with the rail service.

The Ogden-Hinckley Airport is used for general aviation and is known as "Utah's Utah's Busiest Municipal Airport." Located on 700 acres at the southwestern corner of Ogden, the airport maintains three runways and has three Fixed Base Operators.

Public education for city students are provided by Ogden City School District, which includes more than a dozen elementary schools, Highland Junior High, Mound Fort Junior High, Mount Ogden Junior High, Ben Lomond High School, Ogden High School and Washington High School. Ogden is home to Weber State University, a public institution that has more than 20,000 enrolled students and offers professional, liberal arts and technical certificates, as well as associate, bachelor's and master's degrees. In Athletics, Weber State University colors are purple and white and their mascot is the Wildcats, and they participate in NCAA Division I (I-AA for football) in the Big Sky Conference. The campus is located at the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains. The Dee Events Center is a state of the art indoor facility with over 10,000 seats that hosts Weber University's basketball games as well as other events such as music concerts. Another higher education facility in the city is Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College, a public two year technical college.

Ogden is home to the McKay-Dee Hospital Center, which offers nationally ranked medical programs and is part of the Intermountain Health Care system. The McKay-Dee Hospital Center offers a variety of comprehensive services including Behavioral Health, Cancer Services, Emergency & Critical Care, Heart Services, Outpatient Services, Rehabilitation, surgery, and women & newborn care.

Ogden offers a tremendous amount of recreational opportunities in dozens of city parks, Lorin Farr Swimming Pool, Lorin Farr Skate Park, Marshall White Community Center, and the athletic fields and facilities of the local schools. Additionally, Ogden is a golfer's paradise with multiple courses including The Barn Golf Course, Ben Lomond Golf Course, El Monte Golf Course, Golf City, Hill Air Force Base Hubbard GC, Mt. Ogden Golf Course, Mulligan's North, Nordic Valley, Ogden Golf & Country Club. Golfers can expect to find practice ranges and amenities such as club houses and pro shops at these golf courses.

The historic Downtown Ogden offers a lot including shopping, food & dining, nightlife activities, arts and culture, sightseeing and lodging. Among many attractions, some notable cultural venues in Ogden include Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden City Amphitheatre, George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park, David Eccles Conference Center. Ogden Museums include Children's Treehouse Museum, Utah State Railroad Museum, Natural History Museum, and Elizabeth Dee Shaw Stewart Museum at Dinosaur Park, and Union Station which houses Browning/Kimball Car Museum, Browning Firearms Museum. Ogden offers a wonderful dining experience in many restaurants that serve diverse cuisines. Ogden attracts many visitors and therefore offers a large variety of hotels and motels to accommodate them.

According to the United States Census Bureau of 2000, Plain City has a population of more than 81,000 people, making it one of the ten largest cities in Utah. The city has a total area 26.6 square miles with a high population density of over 3,000 people per square mile. It is located at high altitudes of over 4,300 feet above sea level.

The racial demographics of Plain City are 79.01% White, 2.31% African American, 1.20% Native American, 1.43% Asian, 0.17% Pacific Islander, 12.95% from other races, and 2.93% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race are 23.64% of the population.

Plain City has more than 27,000 households. The median income for a household in the city is $34,047, and the median income for a family is $38,950.

Weber County is located in northern Utah and is surrounded by six other counties. Weber County is located in the urban/suburban region where most of Utah's population is concentrated, forming the metropolitan area of Salt Lake City - Ogden - Clearfield area.

Weber County lies between eastern coast of Great Salt Lake and the western range of the Wasatch Mountains. This unique and scenic environment is where the rapidly growing suburban communities of Weber County are concentrated. Weber County is served by a convenient road system of Interstate 84 and Interstate 15, which leads down south through the important counties of Davis County and Salt Lake County. Salt Lake City, Utah's capital is about 30 miles away from Weber County.

According to the U.S. census of 2000, Weber County is home to more than 200,000 residents. The county has a total area of 659 square miles with 84 square miles of water.

Weber County is home to 22 total communities of cities, towns, and unincorporated areas. Weber County consists of many suburban and expanding rural communities with plenty of Golf courses, parks, recreational facilities, and constant activity of building new homes, infrastructures, and businesses. The county seat and largest city of Weber County is Ogden, also one of the ten largest cities in Utah.