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Mount Joy is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 7,410 at the 2010 census.

Name and origin

The name is often shortened to Mt Joy, as in Mencken (1963). However, citizens of the town often point out that this abbreviation is not proper because the town is not named for a mountain but is named after the "Good Ship" Mountjoy which famously broke a Catholic siege during the Siege of Derry. Due to the early settlement of the Protestant Scots-Irish in this region of Pennsylvania, many of the municipalities in the area were given names common to the North of Ireland such as: Derry Township, Londonderry Township, South Londonderry Township, Mount Joy Township, East Donegal Township, West Donegal Township, and Rapho Township.

Mount Joy is often named in lists of "delightfully-named towns" in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Lititz, Bareville, Bird-in-Hand and Paradise.

General information

• ZIP code: 17552
• Area code: 717
• Local phone codes: 492, 653, 928

Geography

Mount Joy is located at 40°6′36″N 76°30′40″W (40.109895, -76.510977).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.1 km²), all of it land. It is considered to be part of the Susquenanna Valley.

In the 1970s, Mount Joy was chosen as the site of one of ten Decision Information Distribution System radio stations, designed to alert the public of an enemy attack. The system was never implemented and the station was not built.

Demographics

The 2010 United States Census reports the following demographics for Mount Joy Borough:

• Total population: 7,410
• Male: 3,624
• Female: 3,786
• Hispanic or Latino: 549
• White: 6,809
• African American: 187
• Asian: 58
• American Indian and Alaska Native: 20
• Identified by two or more: 170

Museums and historic sites

• Bube's Brewery and Central Hotel
• Donegal Mills Plantation
• George Brown's Sons Cotton and Woolen Mill
• Nissly Swiss Chocolate Company

Notable people

• Kaufman Thuma "K.T." Keller, President and CEO, Chrysler Corporation.
• Clarence Stoll, President, Western Electric Company.
• Joseph F. Knipe, Brigadier General, 46th PA Inf., Union Army during the Civil War.
• Mike Sarbaugh, Coach, Cleveland Indians
• Darin Gorski, Las Vegas 51s, Pitcher, New York Mets AAA
• David Salsbery Fry, Metropolitan Opera bass.
• Clarence Charles Newcomer, United States federal judge.
• Winfred Trexler Root, historian

Notes

References

• Anderson, William Charles (1979) Home sweet home has wheels: or, Please don't tailgate the real estate
• Mencken, Henry Louis; McDavid, Raven Ioor (1963).