Located in western Denton County, Plainview Cemetery served as a burial ground for early settlers in the area. The Plainview community began around 1878 when the families of Gideon Kimbrough (1833-1923) and William Kimbrough (1824-1912) arrived from Bellville, Tennessee. As the community grew, a one-room school building was erected, and in 1894 a Baptist Sunday school began meeting there. The Plainview Baptist Church formed in 1896 and built a church on land donated by C.R. Moreman. In 1898, land adjoining the church was purchased from the estate of James B. Walker (1848-1898) for use as a cemetery, and Walker was the first person buried there. It became the only cemetery for the Plainview community. At least five people from the area were buried there before 1900, and burials increased greatly in the early 1900s because of a national influenza epidemic. The cemetery contains marble and cement headstones marked with biblical scripture, masonic markings, woodmen seals and military headstones. Many founding families of the community and generations of their descendants are buried there, and the graves preserve a record of the area's settlers, including teachers, preachers and veterans. The Plainview Baptist Church and the cemetery are the only remnants of this once flourishing farming community.