List of fictional counties
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Fictional counties are created by an author for character placement and story background.
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B
- Barsetshire, UK - Anthony Trollope's fictional locale
- Bloom County, USA - setting of the comic strip of the same name.
- Borsetshire, UK - from The Archers
C
- Caldecott County, USA - home of the Marvel Comics character Rogue
- Chinquapin Parish, Louisiana - setting for Steel Magnolias
- Cobblestone County, USA - the home of Bedrock in The Flintstones
D
- District X in the Marvel Comic of the same name.
G
- Greenbow County, Alabama - The County of Forrest Gump
H
- Hazzard County, Georgia - setting of the television series, The Dukes of Hazzard
- Heimlich County, Texas - setting of the television series King of the Hill, includes the fictional towns of Arlen and McManerbury.
- Hill County, California - setting of the Back to the Future films, includes the fictional towns of Hill Valley, Elmdale and Haysville.
K
- Kindle County, USA Midwest - unspecified state - setting of Scott Turow novels
- Kornfield Kounty, USA - setting of variety show Hee Haw
L
- Loamshire, UK - George Eliot's fictional locale
M
- Mayberry County, North Carolina - setting of Mayberry from The Andy Griffith Show.
- Mist County, Minnesota - the county seat is Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon
- Maycomb County, Alabama - fictional setting for Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
- Missinabi County, Ontario - the fictional county seat is Stephen Leacock's equally fictional Mariposa in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
- Mortshire, UK - used in the works of Edward Gorey.
S
- South Riding of Yorkshire, UK- setting for South Riding by Winifred Holtby.
- Spittle County, USA - rural county adjacent to Springfield in The Simpsons
- Swartzwelder County, USA - rural county near Springfield in The Simpsons; reference to show writer John Swartzwelder.
W
- Wanker County, Wisconsin - Rural county in Married... with Children, birthplace of Peg Bundy (neé Wanker)
- Wessex, UK - the name Thomas Hardy used for his fictional locale
Y
- Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi - William Faulkner's fictional county