Welcome to Mount Joy ...Mount Joy is located in Scott County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Mount Joy, you might consider that their post office opened in 1856. A typical abbreviation for Mount Joy: Mt. Joy Mount Joy is 730 feet [223 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Mount Joy lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Code for Mount Joy: 563 Communities Also Named Mount Joy ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 10 communities that are also named Mount Joy - they are located in Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania (3), South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Mount Joy. Communities near Mount Joy ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mount Joy.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Mount Joy. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mount Joy. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mount Joy. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mount Joy. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mount Joy. See our Newspapers Page for Mount Joy. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Mount Joy ...Looking for more information about Mount Joy? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Mount Joy, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Mount Joy. Adding Mount Joy to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Mount Joy in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Mount Joy was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> For more details, see References and Mentions for Mount Joy. Footnotes ...
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