List of Fictional Counties - United States

United States

  • Alabama
    • Beechum County – setting of the 1992 film My Cousin Vinny
    • Cotton County – location of the 1999 film Crazy in Alabama
    • Greenbow County – from the 1994 film Forrest Gump
    • Maycomb County – setting for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
  • California
    • Balboa County – location of Neptune in Veronica Mars
    • Beacon County-setting for Teen Wolf
    • Clark County – setting for Superbad and Pineapple Express
    • East Bay County – location of Berkeley in Parenthood (Berkeley is a real city in Alameda County, within the informal East Bay region)
    • Hill County – setting of the Back to the Future films, includes the towns of Hill Valley, Elmdale and Haysville
    • Livermore County – setting of some activity in Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full. Represents southeastern Alameda County, California, where Livermore is located.
  • Florida
    • Calusa County – home base of defense attorney Matthew Hope, created by mystery author Ed McBain
    • Fatchakulla County, North Florida – location of murder mysteries in the novel Ralph, or, What's Eating the Folks in Fatchakulla County?
    • Oklawaha County – setting for Gamble Rogers' songs and stories
  • Georgia
    • Dougal County – the rural setting of Squidbillies
    • Grant County – setting of novels by Karin Slaughter
    • Hazzard County – setting of the television series The Dukes of Hazzard
    • Paraquat County – setting of the 1966 film The Ugly Dachshund and 1981 Film Smokey Bites the Dust
    • Blithe Hollow County– setting of the 1966 film The Ugly Dachshund and animated 2012 Film Paranorman
  • Indiana
    • Raintree County – setting of Ross Lockridge, Jr.'s novel Raintree County
  • Kansas
    • Fillmore County – the rural setting of Jericho
  • Kentucky
    • Crow County – the setting of Silas House's novels Clay's Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves, and The Coal Tattoo
  • Louisiana
    • Chinquapin Parish – setting for Steel Magnolias
    • Renard Parish – setting for True Blood
  • Maine
    • Castle County – location of Castle Rock and Castle View
  • Maryland
    • Ramilly County – F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
  • Minnesota
    • Herndon County – workplace of Ruth Harrison, the contentious reference librarian whose adventures are occasionally featured on A Prairie Home Companion
    • Ironwood County – the setting for the Ironwood County novels by John Schreiber.
    • Mist County – the county seat is Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon
  • Mississippi
    • Caldecott County – home of the Marvel Comics character Rogue
    • Ford County – the setting of many of John Grisham's novels, as well as a collection of short stories
    • Yoknapatawpha County, in the works of William Faulkner
  • New Jersey
    • Huntington County – the setting of the wealthy town of Vlyvalle in Dirk Wittenborn's novel Fierce People. Possibly based on Hunterdon County.
  • New Mexico
    • Carburetor County – location of Radiator Springs in Cars
  • North Carolina
    • Mayberry County – setting of Mayberry in The Andy Griffith Show
  • Oklahoma
    • Cash County – location of Vernon, setting for several mystery novels by former U. S. Senator Fred R. Harris (not to be confused with the real Vernon, Oklahoma)
  • Oregon
    • Johnson County – home of Sgt. Bob Johnson in the film A Canterbury Tale. His grandfather built the first Baptist church in the county.
    • Wilbur County – rural county in Central Oregon which is the setting for the multi-blog fiction The Germaine Truth by Duane Poncy and Patricia J. McLean
  • Texas
    • Arlen County – pilot episode of King of the Hill; afterward the name of the county was changed to Heimlich
    • Belken County – Rio Grande Valley setting of Rolando Hinojosa-Smith's novels of the Klail City Death Trip Series (KCDTS)
    • Blackwood County – scenes from X-Files: Fight the Future
    • Braddock County – site of the Southfork Ranch on the TV show Dallas
    • Heimlich County – setting of the television series King of the Hill, includes the towns of Arlen and McManerbury.
  • Virginia
    • Faulconer County – a setting of the Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
    • Jefferson County – setting of the television series The Waltons
    • Stoolbend County – home to Stoolbend in The Cleveland Show
  • Wisconsin
    • Wanker County – rural county in Married... with Children, birthplace of Peg Bundy (née Wanker)
  • Unspecified states
    • Bloom County – rural setting of the comic strip Bloom County and its sequels
    • Camden County – setting for television show My Name is Earl
    • Campbell County – the county where Odyssey is located, on the radio show Adventures in Odyssey
    • Cobblestone County – the home of Bedrock in The Flintstones
    • Kindle County, the Midwestern setting for most Scott Turow novels
    • Kornfield Kounty – setting of variety show Hee Haw
    • Mississinewa County (through which flows the Mississinewa River), in the poems of Jared Carter
    • Moose County – "400 miles north of everywhere", the setting of Lillian Jackson Braun's Cat Who... stories
    • Papen County – setting of Pushing Daisies, somewhere in the Pacific Northwest or New England
    • Seacrest County – setting of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010 video game), located somewhere along the US West Coast.
    • Stevenston County – from Scary Movie

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