Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Mount Joy, PA

Mount Joy is not named for a mountain at all — it takes its name from the "Good Ship" Mountjoy, which famously broke a Catholic siege during the Siege of Derry in Ireland in 1689, a heritage its Scots-Irish settlers honored.

The villages of Mountjoy and Richland incorporated to form the Borough of Mount Joy in 1851, and the neighboring village of Florin joined the borough in 1963.

Mount Joy had a population of 8,325 at the 2020 census, up 12.3% from 7,410 in 2010.

Mount Joy has roughly 3,500 households, averaging about 2.35 people per household, according to Census Bureau figures.

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.

Bube's Brewery on North Market Street — a brewery complex built in 1859 and expanded by Bavarian brewer Alois Bube — is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and still operates as a brewery and restaurant, with dining in its underground catacombs.

Mount Joy's historic sites include the Central Hotel, the Donegal Mills Plantation, the George Brown's Sons Cotton and Woolen Mill, and the Nissly Swiss Chocolate Company.

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, though the system was never implemented and the station was never built.

Mount Joy students attend the Donegal School District, and the borough's Main Street is Pennsylvania Route 230, which runs 12 miles southeast to Lancaster, the county seat.

Little Chiques Creek, part of the Susquehanna River watershed, crosses the eastern side of the borough.