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List of fictional counties

Fictional counties are created by an author for character placement and story background.

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

D

• District X in the Marvel Comic of the same name.

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.

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

S

• South Riding of Yorkshire, UK- setting for 'South Riding' by Winifred Holtby.
• Spittle County, USA - rural county adjacent to Springfield in The Simpsons

W

• Wessex, UK - the name Thomas Hardy used for his fictional locale

Y

• Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi - William Faulkner's fictional county

See also

• Archive of fictional things
• List of fictional cities
• List of fictional countries