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Mount Joy is located in northwestern Lancaster County at (40.109895, -76.510977 Pennsylvania Route 230 passes through the center of town as Main Street, leading southeast 12 miles (19 km) to Lancaster , the county seat , and northwest 6 miles (10 km) to Elizabethtown .
Mount Joy Township is a township that is located in northwestern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 10,753 at the time of the 2020 census . [ 2 ]
In 1949, the section of what is now PA 283 between the current Mount Joy (PA 230) and Manheim Pike (PA 72) opened to traffic as part of US 230. Construction began in 1951, concluding the following year, to extend the expressway past the current eastern terminus of PA 283 at US 30 to US 222 (Oregon Pike).
The route intersects the Airport Connector near the Harrisburg International Airport, PA 441 and PA 341 in the Middletown area, PA 241 and PA 743 in Elizabethtown, and PA 772 in Mount Joy. The road between Middletown and Lancaster was originally a private turnpike dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries.
Pennsylvania Route 772 (PA 772) is an east–west 38.5-mile-long (62.0 km) state highway located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.The western terminus of PA 772 is at PA 441 in Marietta, and its eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 30 (US 30) just west of Gap.
The township contains the village of Bausman, an unincorporated community that has its own post office and ZIP code (17504), [7] while the rest of the township is covered by 17603 and 17602. Other named locations in the township are School Lane Hills, Woodlawn, Hamilton Park, Colonial Manor, Wabank, Engleside, and Conestoga Woods.
Pennsylvania Route 230 passes through the center of town, leading northwest 18 miles (29 km) to Harrisburg and southeast 6 miles (10 km) to Mount Joy. Pennsylvania Route 283 , a four-lane freeway, touches the northeast boundary of the borough and provides access from an interchange with PA 743 .
As of the census [5] of 2000, there were 3,232 people, 1,191 households, and 943 families residing in the township. The population density was 124.8 inhabitants per square mile (48.2/km 2).