| Official Name: | Iron Station, North Carolina |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | North Carolina#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Iron Station |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | North Carolina |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Lincoln |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 825 |
| Area Total Km2: | 6.13 |
| Area Land Km2: | 6.12 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.01 |
| Population Density Km2: | 134.87 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 349.28 |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Elevation Ft: | 896 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 28080 |
| Area Code: | 704 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 37-33820 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 2628638 |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 2.37 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 2.36 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.01 |
Iron Station is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States. A primarily industrial town, Iron Station's population was 755 as of the 2010 census.[2] It also serves as a bedroom community for the larger cities of Charlotte, Hickory, and Lincolnton.
Ingleside, Magnolia Grove, and Tucker's Grove Camp Meeting Ground are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Iron Station was named for its history as an iron mining town with a train station.
The community is southeast of the center of Lincoln County, along North Carolina Highway 27, which leads northwest 7miles to Lincolnton, the county seat, and southeast to Charlotte.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Iron Station CDP has a total area of 6.1sqkm, of which 13938order=flipNaNorder=flip, or 0.23%, are water.[3] The community is in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, and the town center is on a ridge which drains northeast to Dellinger Branch, which forms the northeastern border of the CDP, and southwest to Hoyle Creek. The entire community is part of the Catawba River watershed.