[2] The community has a volunteer fire department on Boswell Road, and a K-12 school located off Highway 72.

[4] Mount Pleasant is in northern Marshall County, less than 3 miles (5 km) south of the Tennessee border.

State Highway 311 leads south from Mount Pleasant 14 miles (23 km) to Holly Springs, the Marshall county seat.

Nearby unincorporated communities include Cayce to the west, Taska to the southwest, and Slayden to the east.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Mount Pleasant CDP has an area of 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2), all land.