THE GASTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Outer Piedmont setting.
Gaston County has 355.8 square miles of land in North Carolina. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Gaston County: Southern Outer Piedmont, Kings Mountain.
The Piedmont is a belt of irregular plains and hills between the Appalachians and the coastal plain. A complex mixture of older rocks underlies its pine and hardwood woodland landscapes.
Regional context: Piedmont ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Gaston County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Outer Piedmont85.2%
- Kings Mountain14.8%
Finding your parcel within Gaston County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Gaston County, including Gastonia, Kings Mountain, Belmont. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Gaston County by land and water
The Census records 7.93 square miles of water within Gaston County, or 2.2% of its total area. That share is close to Gaston County’s 2.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Gaston County has 115.7 times the land area of nearby Dallas town (3.07 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cleveland County, Lincoln County, Mecklenburg County within North Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

