Noble County was founded in 1836 and has a rich history centered around the natural elements in the region.

- 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
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