Joy is an unincorporated community in southern Clay County, Texas, United States.

The Red River Cattle Company fenced a sizable area after becoming interested in the surrounding grasslands.

In 1914, Joy had 23 residents, a general store, a blacksmith, and telephone lines.

Its population increased to 37 in the ensuing decade, and reports of it were available there until the early 1940s, when it was estimated to have reached 150, including seven businesses.

The village still had three churches and a cemetery in the 1980s, while the neighboring Joy field boasted fourteen wells in 1990, producing a total of 25,000,000 barrels of crude oil.