Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. The town shares a border with the town of Lake Lure. The villages of Chimney Rock and Bat Cave along with parts of Chimney Rock State Park lie within Hickory Nut Gorge. It is an incised, narrow, and relatively linear gorge likely eroded by the Broad River preferentially along either a zone of highly fractured metamorphic rock associated with a regional fault or other linear geologic feature.Eppes, M.C., ed., 2022. Hickory Nut Gorge: A Natural Laboratory to Advance Our Understanding of Progressive Rock Failure: Geological Society of America Penrose Conference Field Trip, June 22, 2022. Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America. 52 pp.
Geography A,ccording to the United States Census Bureau the village has a total area of , all land. The town shares a border with the town of Lake Lure. The villages of Chimney Rock and ,Bat Cave along with parts of Chimney Rock State Park lie within Hickory Nut Gorge It is an incised, narrow, and relatively linear gorge likely eroded by the Broad River preferentially along either a zone of highly fractured metamorphic rock associated with a regional fault or other linear geologic feature.Eppes, M.C. ed., 2022. Hickory Nut Gorge: A. Natural Laboratory to Advance Our Understanding of Progressive Rock Failure: Geological Society of America Penrose Conference Field Trip, June 22, 2022. Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America. 52 pp.