Belle Valley, Ohio

Belle Valley is a village in Noble County, Ohio, United States.

Belle Valley had its start when the Cleveland and Marietta Railroad was extended to that point.

[6] During World War II, Belle Valley soldier Harry Torhan, who was born to Russian emigre coal mining parents, received the Silver Star and Purple Heart for evacuating four wounded soldiers while under mortar and small arms fire during the Battle of the Bulge.

[7] Belle Valley is located along the West Fork of Duck Creek in Noble Township.

Belle Valley is located within a short driving distance of Cambridge, Marietta, and Zanesville, near Interstate 77.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.41 square miles (1.06 km2), all land.

The Belle Valley section is a mostly hilly, completely rural portion of the Buckeye Trail that runs through Guernsey and Noble Counties in southeast Ohio.

The trail here is mostly on rarely traveled dirt roads, with off-road portions located at Salt Fork Wildlife Area, Seneca Lake (the southernmost of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District Lakes), Wolf Run State Park and America Electric Power Recreation Lands.

Map of Ohio highlighting Noble County