THE NOBLE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Monongahela Transition Zone setting.
Noble County has 398 square miles of land in Ohio. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Noble County: Monongahela Transition Zone, Permian Hills.
Rounded wooded hills and intervening valleys form an unglaciated plateau landscape. Valley floors contain much of the region's open land, contrasting with its more forested slopes.
Regional context: Western Allegheny Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Noble County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Monongahela Transition Zone98.3%
- Permian Hills1.7%
Finding your parcel within Noble County
The atlas lists 21 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Noble County, including Jackson, Noble, Brookfield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Noble County by land and water
The Census records 6.56 square miles of water within Noble County, or 1.6% of its total area. That share is close to Noble County’s 1.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Noble County has 14.1 times the land area of nearby Center township (28.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Belmont County, Guernsey County, Monroe County, Morgan County, Muskingum County, Washington County within Ohio. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

