Template:Wp-Maiden, North Carolina

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Maiden is a town in Catawba and Lincoln counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 3,310 at the 2010 census.

Maiden was the first public high school in the state with an observatory and is currently home to an Apple iCloud Data Center, covering . In May 2012, Apple announced it would generate 60 percent of the Maiden facility's power itself, through a large deployment of fuel cells at the site and a solar farm, with an additional site away.

The Catawba County portion of Maiden is part of the HickoryLenoirMorganton Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Lincoln County portion is part of the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia Metropolitan Area.