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Kings Mountain is a small suburban city within the Charlotte metropolitan area in Cleveland and Gaston counties, North Carolina, United States. Most of the city is in Cleveland County, with a small eastern portion in Gaston County. The population was 10,296 at the 2010 census. [4]
The Pinnacle and nearby Crowders Mountain separated the historic hunting lands of the Cherokee and Catawba Indians. The Battle of Kings Mountain, an important American victory over the British Army during the American Revolution, was fought southwest of the mountain in 1780 in what is now Kings Mountain National Military Park.
The park is located in the Western Piedmont of North Carolina between the cities of Kings Mountain and Gastonia or about 25 miles (40 km) west of Charlotte. Crowders Mountain abruptly rises nearly 800 feet (240 m) above the surrounding terrain, and has an elevation of 1,625 feet (495 m) above sea level.
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Crowders Mountain State Park is a 5,217-acre (21.11 km 2) [1] North Carolina state park in Gaston County, North Carolina in the United States. It is near Kings Mountain, North Carolina and on the outskirts of Gastonia, North Carolina , it includes the peaks of Crowder's Mountain and The Pinnacle .
The 20 highest summits of North Carolina with at least 160 feet of topographic prominence; Rank Summit Mountain Range Elevation Prominence Isolation Location; 1 Mount Mitchell [2] [a] Black Mountains: 6,684 ft 2037 m: 6,094 ft 1857 m: 1,189 mi 1,913 km 2
Kings Mountain Land Development Partners, LLC, which Cheves has a stake in, owned the parking lot and subleased it to SkyBoat. Kings Mountain had offered to lease it to the tribe for $6 million a ...
Kings Mountain National Military Park is a National Military Park near Blacksburg, South Carolina, along the North Carolina/South Carolina border. [4] [5] The park commemorates the Battle of Kings Mountain, a pivotal and significant victory by American Patriots over American Loyalists during the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War.