The National Arbor Day Foundation has designated Bellevue as a Tree City USA.

The small portion of the city that extends into Erie county is part of the Sandusky Micropolitan Statistical Area.

[7] Bellevue was the home of Henry Morrison Flagler when he partnered up with John D. Rockefeller to start Standard Oil.

The property of his former Bellevue residence on Southwest Street is the current location of the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum.

Bellevue and the surrounding countryside are home to three sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Heter Farm, the John Wright Mansion, and the Tremont House.

Bellevue is located on U.S. Route 20, which forms East and West Main Street.

During the first half of the 20th century, Bellevue was a busy railroad hub of the Nickel Plate Road, and it remains today as a hub for the Norfolk Southern Railway, which operates a massive railroad yard in Bellevue.

From Bellevue, Norfolk Southern Lines extend northeast to Cleveland, north to Sandusky, northwest to Toledo, west to Fort Wayne, Indiana and south to Columbus.

Also, the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway operates a line from Bellevue that extends east to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.