Ohio State Route 257 passes through three counties and five localities.
The highway's southern terminus is in the northwestern Columbus suburb of Dublin at a roundabout intersection with U.S. Route 33 (US 33) and SR 161. Franklin Dublin Delaware Liberty Township Concord Township Scioto Township Marion Prospect 
The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry. A locality, settlement, or populated place is likely to have a well-defined name but a boundary that is not well defined varies by context. 
