List of fictional counties
(Redirected from Fictional county)
Fictional counties are created by an author for character placement and story background.
Table of contents |
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
- 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
See also
Categories: Fictional counties | Lists of fictional things