Mount Sterling, Ohio

Pleasant Township is one of the fourteen townships of Madison County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 3,272 people in the township.

McClimansville is an unincorporated community in Pleasant Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States. It is located at the intersection of Ohio State Route 323 and Ohio State Route 56, just north of Mount Sterling.

Era is an unincorporated community in Pickaway County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.

McKendree is an unincorporated community in Pleasant Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States. It is located at the intersection of Nioga-Toops Road and McKendree Road, southeast of Kiousville.

Derby is a census-designated place in central Darby Township, Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. It is assigned the ZIP code 43117. The population was 355 at the 2020 census.

Darby Generating Station is a 480 megawatt (MW), natural gas peaker plant located in Darby Township, Pickaway County near Mount Sterling, Ohio. The plant is currently owned by Lightstone Generation LLC, a 50-50 joint venture of The Blackstone Group and ArcLight Capital Partners. The plant has six units and began operations in 2001.

Darby Township is one of the fifteen townships of Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 3,213 people in the township.

Harrisburg is a village in Franklin and Pickaway counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 315 at the 2020 census.

Fairfield Township is one of the fourteen townships of Madison County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,333 people in the township.

Wrightsville is an unincorporated community in Fairfield Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States. It is located at 39°51′40″N 83°14′50″W, at the intersection of Ohio State Route 665 and Georgesville-Wrightsville Road, approximately four miles north of Kiousville. Some national maps mistakenly show Wrightsville in Franklin County.The Wrightsville Post Office was established on January 23, 1888, but was discontinued on January 15, 1901. The mail service is now sent through the Georgesville branch.

Orient is a census-designated place and former village in Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. The population was 246 at the 2020 census. Orient is home to the Pickaway Correctional Institution and the Correctional Reception Center.

The Pickaway Correctional Institution is a state prison located in Scioto Township, Pickaway County, just outside Orient, Ohio, United States which mostly houses minimum and medium security inmates. PCI was opened as a prison in 1984 after the buildings which formerly housed a facility for Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities had been closed. Although the structures were not built to house prisoners, Warden James Jackson modified the condemned buildings into secure housing for inmates. The prison houses 2107 inmates and 511 staff members (out of which 249 are the security staff). Inmates have an opportunity to take classes at Sinclair Community College or learn the printing trade at the OPI Print Shop. In 2000, former Ohio First Lady Hope Taft approached the Warden about establishing a reading room for the children who visited their incarcerated parents. The reading room opened within a few years and includes an inmate narrator who reads to the visiting children twice a day.As of August 2022 the warden is Rochelle Moore. The most notorious inmates of this prison were Posteal Laskey Jr., the Cincinnati Strangler, until his death by natural causes on May 29, 2007. In 2017, the prison made headlines, as 4 inmates overdosed on opioids in a 2-day period.In 2020, the prison again made national headlines as the second largest hotspot of diagnosed COVID-19 cases in the US.