North Carolina
Rutherford County
Chimney Rock Township

Chimney Rock

Chimney Rock is a village in , , United States. The population was 140 at the 2020 census. The village took its name from a large gneiss located on a summit above the village itself in Chimney Rock State Park.
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  • Type: Village with 140 residents
  • Description: village in North Carolina, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Chimney Rock, NC”, “Chimney Rock, North Carolina”, and “Chimneyrock”
  • Postal code: 28720

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hickorynut Falls and Bluerock Mountain.

Waterfall
Photo: 5minutes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hickory Nut Falls, also known as , is a waterfall located at Chimney Rock State Park in , .

Peak
is a mountain in , near the community of . It is split between and counties, it is home of the Bat Cave Preserve and part of Chimney Rock State Park. is situated 1½ miles west of Chimney Rock.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bat Cave and Bearwallow.

Hamlet
Photo: Washuotaku, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an unincorporated community in , United States and is part of the . Named after a located on , it is the largest known augen gneiss granite fissure cave in North America and is a protected area, not open to the public. is situated 2½ miles west of Chimney Rock.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in United States and is part of the . is situated 4 miles northwest of Chimney Rock.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. It lies at an elevation of 2,667 feet. The community is part of the . is situated 6 miles northwest of Chimney Rock.

Chimney Rock

Latitude
35.43982° or 35° 26′ 23″ north
Longitude
-82.24856° or 82° 14′ 55″ west
Population
140
Elevation
1,093 feet (333 metres)
Open location code
867VCQQ2+WH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154200993
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4460630
Wiki­data ID
Q2412402
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Chimney Rock” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشيمني روك”
  • Basque: “Chimney Rock”
  • Catalan: “Chimney Rock”
  • Cebuano: “Chimney Rock”
  • Chinese: “Chimney Rock”
  • Chinese: “奇姆尼羅克 (北卡羅萊納州)”
  • Chinese: “奇姆尼羅克”
  • Dutch: “Chimney Rock”
  • French: “Chimney Rock”
  • German: “Chimney Rock”
  • Haitian: “Chimney Rock, Kawolin dinò”
  • Italian: “Chimney Rock”
  • Japanese: “チムニー・ロック”
  • Ladin: “Chimney Rock Village (North Carolina)”
  • Ladin: “Chimney Rock Village”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chimney Rock”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chimney Rock (Nord-Carolina)”
  • Norwegian: “Chimney Rock”
  • Persian: “چیمنی راک”
  • Polish: “Chimney Rock”
  • Portuguese: “Chimney Rock”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chimney Rock Village, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chimney Rock Village”
  • Spanish: “Chimney Rock”
  • Swedish: “Chimney Rock, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Chimney Rock”
  • Ukrainian: “Чимні-Рок”
  • Volapük: “Chimney Rock”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Chimney Rock”. Photo: Aeæ, GFDL.