Gastonia, North Carolina City of Gastonia Gastonia is the biggest city and governmental center of county of Gaston County, North Carolina, United States.
It is also the second biggest satellite town/city of the Charlotte area, behind Concord.
The populace was 71,741 at the 2010 Census. Gastonia is the 13th biggest city in North Carolina. It is part of the Charlotte urbane area, officially designated the Charlotte Metropolitan Travel Destination (MSA).
Gastonia has experienced steady growth, with a populace increase between 2000 and 2010 of nearly 8.2%, as stated to the U.S.
Gastonia is titled for William Gaston, member of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The City Hospital-Gaston Memorial Hospital, Craig Farmstead, Downtown Gastonia Historic District, First National Bank Building, Gaston County Courthouse, Gastonia High School, David Jenkins House, Loray Mill Historic District, Robinson-Gardner Building, Third National Bank Building, and William J.
The Loray Mill strike of 1929 in Gastonia, was one of the most notable strikes in the workforce history of the United States.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 50.7 square miles (131.4 km2), of which 50.5 square miles (130.8 km2) is territory and 0.23 square miles (0.6 km2), or 0.45%, is water. Gastonia is situated in 14% of the total region of Gaston County.
Gastonia City Plaza The town/city had an unemployment rate of 7.9% as of 2010; 12,536 of the 71,341 inhabitants lived and worked in the city, with a daytime populace change of +10,610.
The town/city is the global corporate command posts for textile business Parkdale Mills, the number one manufacturer of spun yarn in the world. The business also directed two manufacturing facilities in Gastonia and a several in encircling communities.
Other manufacturers in Gastonia include Wix Filtration Corp., Freightliner LLC, Stabilus, Curtiss-Wright Controls Engineered Systems and Radici Group.
Other primary employers include the City of Gastonia and Gaston County governments, the Gaston County Schools system, Caromont Healthcare (Gaston Memorial Hospital), and retailers Walmart and Advance Auto Parts, with two and six stores (plus a distribution center) in the order given. Crowder's Mountain, positioned just inside Gastonia City limits Gastonia and the encircling areas feature a several notable attractions.
The Schiele Museum of Natural History features a number of permanent exhibits, including the Hall of North Carolina Natural History and the Henry Hall of the American Indian. The exhibition is also home to the James H.
National Whitewater Center (on the Catawba River) is positioned east of the town/city in neighboring Mecklenburg County.
Crowders Mountain State Park is positioned west of the city, near Kings Mountain.
The Gastonia Grizzlies play baseball at Sims Legion Park.
The Gastonia Gargoyles play rugby at Gaston County's North Belmont Park.
The town/city is served by the Gastonia Police Department, the Gaston County Police Department, and the Gaston County Sheriff's Office.
The Gastonia Fire Department consists of eight fire home spread throughout the communities inside the City limits.
The Gastonia Fire Department maintains 130 full-time firefighters working 3-24 hour shifts.
Gaston County EMS (GEMS) is the county ambulance service.
Belmont Abbey College is a four-year college near Gastonia.
All enhance K 12 schools in Gaston County, including the town/city of Gastonia, are part of the Gaston County Schools (GCS).
There are four enhance high schools in Gastonia: Ashbrook High School, Forestview High School, Hunter Huss High School, and Highland School of Technology.
Students from outlying parts of Gastonia also attend Stuart W.
Cramer High School, North Gaston High School, and Bessemer City High School.
Private schools are also available in the city.
Gaston Day School, Gaston Christian School are among various private schools offered in the Gastonia area.
Gastonia also has a charter school, Piedmont Community Charter School, that serves K 12 undertaking students. Although there are no universities or universities inside the town/city limits of Gastonia, college studies is well represented in the greater Gastonia area.
Gaston County is home to Belmont Abbey College (Belmont; four-year) and Gaston College (Dallas, Lincolnton (Lincoln County), and Belmont; two-year).
The Gaston Gazette is Gastonia's chief newspaper.
It is presented daily, and covers Gastonia city, Gaston County, and encircling areas.
Gastonia has no broadcast tv stations licensed in the city, but is served by network affiliates and autonomous stations transmitting from close-by Charlotte.
Cable tv service in Gastonia is provided primarily by Time Warner Cable.
Gastonia is served by various FM and AM airways broadcasts, mainly based in close-by Charlotte.
Interstate 85 (I-85) links Gastonia directly with Charlotte, Greensboro, Durham, and Petersburg/Richmond (to the northeast) and Spartanburg, Greenville, Atlanta and Montgomery (to the southwest).
Gastonia's transit network is supplemented by one additional motorway (US 321), the freeway portion of which directly joins Gastonia with transcontinental I-40 and the town/city of Hickory, North Carolina, 35 miles (56 km) north of Gastonia.
US 321 links Gastonia to central South Carolina and the Blue Ridge Mountains in northwest North Carolina.
Gastonia Amtrak station Gastonia Transit (GT) is Gastonia's town/city transit provider.
Buses run Monday-Saturday, and transfer downtown Gastonia at the Bradley Station.
Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) is Gastonia's commuter provider to Charlotte.
The Gastonia Express (Route 85 - X) offers Monday-Friday bus service to/from uptown Charlotte, via the Bradley Station.
Amtrak's Crescent (trains 19, 20) joins Gastonia (GAS) with the metros/cities of (to the north) New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Charlotte, and (to the south) Atlanta, Birmingham, and New Orleans.
General service: Gastonia Municipal Airport (AKH) handles most of the city's private air service needs.
It is positioned in the southeast part of the town/city on Gaston Day School Road, off NC 274 (Union Road).
Commercial service: Charlotte/Douglas International Airport (CLT) provides the town/city with a primary domestic/international gateway and is positioned 18 miles (29 km) east, in Charlotte.
Ernest Angley, televangelist, born in Gastonia and interval up in the encircling area Crash Davis, Major League Baseball player who graduated from Gastonia HS.
Fred Durst of the nu metal group Limp Bizkit, attended Hunter Huss High School and Ashbrook High School Leonard Hamilton, Florida State University men's basketball head coach; born in Gastonia and attended Gaston College Lowery, Superintendent of the Maryland State Department of Education, born in Gastonia Thomas Sowell, political commentator and economist; born in Gastonia, raised in New York City Hassan Whiteside, NBA player born in Gastonia Gastonia has two sister cities: Gotha was Gastonia's first sister town/city in 1994.
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