Do you know of Mount Joy ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mount Joy. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Mount Joy.
Our sources for Mount Joy (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Mount Joy other than they indicate that Mount Joy would be found somewhere in Union County, South Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1839 and closed in 1906.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Mount Joy ...
We found ten communities that share the name Mount Joy.
Within South Carolina, the name Mount Joy is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Mount Joy [Sussex County].
- Iowa
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Mount Joy [Scott County].
- New Jersey
- Hunterdon County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Mount Joy [Hunterdon County].
- Ohio
- Scioto County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mount Joy [Scioto County].
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Clearfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mount Joy [Clearfield County].
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mount Joy [Lancaster County].
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mount Joy [Westmoreland County].
- Tennessee
- Maury County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mount Joy [Maury County].
- Texas
- Delta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Mount Joy [Delta County].
- Delaware
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mount Joy ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mount Joy:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Mount Joy - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
Rand McNally Map of South Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Union County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Union County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Mount Joy could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |