Maiden is a town in Catawba and Lincoln counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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 100-acre (40 ha) solar farm, with an additional 150-acre (61 ha) site 2 miles (3 km) away.

[5] The Catawba County portion of Maiden is part of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Lincoln County portion is part of the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Maiden was incorporated on March 7, 1883, as a cotton mill site and trading center.

[7] Historians claim that the name "Maiden" stems from the native-grown "Maidencane" grass, which is found throughout the town to this day.

[10] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 3,736 people, 1,107 households, and 841 families residing in the town.