Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Lucasville, OH

Lucasville is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Scioto County, Ohio, and it is part of the Portsmouth micropolitan area.

Lucasville was laid out on August 7, 1819, by Captain John Lucas, who founded the town on land he had inherited from his father and named it for himself.

Founder John Lucas was the brother of Robert Lucas, a War of 1812 hero who served two terms as governor of Ohio and became the first territorial governor of Iowa.

A post office called Lucasville has been in operation since 1828.

Lucasville is the home of the Scioto County Fairgrounds — in 1908 three separate county fairs merged into one and Lucasville became its official, permanent site.

Just outside Lucasville stands the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison opened in 1972 that houses Ohio's execution chamber, where death row inmates are executed.

Lucasville became nationally known in April 1993, when roughly 450 inmates seized part of the prison in an 11-day standoff — one of the longest prison sieges in U.S. history — that left one corrections officer and nine inmates dead.

Lucasville had 1,655 residents at the 2020 census; its counted population swings sharply between censuses (2,757 in 2010) because of changes in the nearby prison population and CDP boundaries.

Local children attend the Valley Local School District's Valley Elementary School, Valley Middle School, and Valley High School in Lucasville.