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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