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