Microfilm copies of the following Census records are in the North Carolina Collection of the Gastonia Main Library.
- Population schedules of the first census of the United States, 1790.
- Population schedules of the census of the United States, North Carolina, 1800-1930.
- Population schedules of the census of the United States, South Carolina, 1800-1930.
- Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts,
- 1930 North Carolina and N. Dakota Roll 80
- 1930 South Carolina, S. Dakota, Tennessee Roll 86
- 1940 Rhode Island to Tennessee Roll 109
- 1940 North Carolina to N. Dakota Roll 114
- Enumeration district maps for the twelfth through sixteenth censuses of the United States, 1900-1940
- Alamance-Rowan County, NC Roll 44
- Rutherford-Yancey County, NC Roll 45
- Abbeville-York County, SC Roll 58
- Non-population schedules : Industry / Manufacturers: North Carolina,1850, 1860, 1870,1880.
- North Carolina Slave Schedules, 1850, 1860 (Gaston and Lincoln County)
- 1840 Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services.
- 1890 Special Schedules of the 11th Census Enumerating Union Veterans & Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
The State Archives of North Carolina has these nonpopulation censuses for North Carolina:
- Agriculture: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
- Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes: 1880
- Industry/Manufacturing: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
- Social Statistics: 1850, 1860, 1870