Cherryville is a little city in northwestern Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 5,760 at the 2010 census. The New Year’s Shooters celebrate the area’s German descent by arrival each year once a adequate chant and the honorary shooting of muskets. Cherryville is located approximately 38 miles (61 km) west of Charlotte and 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Gastonia.

Cherryville is located in Cherryville Township at 35°22′52″N 81°22′45″W / 35.38111°N 81.37917°W / 35.38111; -81.37917 (35.381169, -81.379168) at an height of 1,007 feet (307 m). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city covers a total area of 5.50 square miles (14.25 km²), of which 5.49 square miles (14.22 km) is home and 0.012 square miles (0.03 km²), or 0.21%, is water. The small Cherryville City Reservoir is located just southeast of the city limits.

Cherryville is located along a divide in the middle of three watersheds. The western stop of Cherryville is in the watershed of Muddy Creek, a right tributary of Buffalo Creek and portion of the Broad River catchment basin. The north side of Cherryville is in the Indian Creek watershed, drained by Lick Fork Creek and an unnamed tributary of Indian Creek. The south side Cherryville Township is in the Beaverdam Creek watershed, drained by indistinctive right-hand tributaries of Beaverdam Creek. Indian Creek and Beaverdam Creek are tributaries of the South Fork Catawba River.

During the last half of the 18th century, German, Dutch, and Scots-Irish families from the Colony of Pennsylvania migrated south and established in the Cherryville area. Land grants made by King George III of Great Britain date encourage to 1768, and as in the future as 1792 Governor Samuel Ashe of North Carolina made grants in and around “White Pine”, as the unity was known at the time. A village began to produce at a crossroads of the Morganton-to-Charleston road, closely followed by broadminded Highway 274 / Mountain Street, and the Old Post Road, a main thoroughfare together with Salisbury, North Carolina, and Spartanburg, South Carolina.