About Noble County

• Noble County is named after James Noble, Indiana’s first U.S. Senator
• Wolf Lake was the first village in the county, established in 1832
• The county covers 420 square miles
• There are seven incorporated towns and cities in the county
• There are an additional 24 unincorporated residential communities in the county
• Albion Township, in the geographical center, is the smallest township in the U.S.
• There are over 117 lakes in the county and eight protected nature areas
• This area was inhabited by the Miami and Pottawatomie Indians until 1838

Notable Noble County residents have included:

• Author Gene Stratton-Porter, Indiana’s most widely-read female author
• Indiana State Poet Laureate Arthur Franklin Mapes
• NBA star Brad Miller
• Architect Alvin M. Strauss
• Olympian Amy Yoder Begley
• MLB pitcher Scott Russell Cary
• English footballer Robert Cumming
• Urban scholar and futurist Richard Louis Meier
• Nobel Prize winner and chemist Harold Urey
• Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick