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Bellevue was founded in 1815 as Amsden Corners by settlers from Genesee County, New York, led by Mark Hopkins, on land in Ohio's Firelands.

The community took its present name in the mid-1830s, when James H. Bell, a civil engineer of the Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad, named the new rail station "Bellevue" in a play on his own surname; the post office adopted the name by 1836.

Bellevue is one of the few American cities that spans four counties — Huron, Erie, Seneca and Sandusky.

Bellevue had a population of 8,249 at the 2020 census, with 3,403 households and about 64% of its occupied homes owner-occupied.

Bellevue was the home of Henry Morrison Flagler when he partnered with John D. Rockefeller to found Standard Oil; the site of Flagler's former residence on Southwest Street is now the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum.

The Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum, founded in 1972 and opened in 1976, is billed as the largest railroad museum in Ohio.

Bellevue has been a major railroad hub for well over a century — first for the Nickel Plate Road and today for Norfolk Southern, which operates a massive rail yard here with lines reaching Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Fort Wayne and Pittsburgh.

Historic Lyme Village, an open-air museum on State Route 4, recreates Firelands life from the early 1800s to the early 1900s around the John Wright Mansion, built in 1880-82.

Three Bellevue-area sites are on the National Register of Historic Places: the Heter Farm, the John Wright Mansion and the Tremont House, a pre-Civil War stagecoach hotel.

Bellevue High School, established in 1870 — its first graduating class had just two students — is the only high school in the Bellevue City School District, and its teams are the Redmen and Lady Red.