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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[edit] Republic of Ireland
- Ring County - From Podge & Rodge A Scare At Bedtime Radio Telefís Éireann
[edit] Canada
- Missinabi County, Ontario - the fictional county seat is Stephen Leacock's equally fictional Mariposa in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
- Possum County, Ontario - the fictional county which is the setting for the The Red Green Show on CBC.
[edit] United Kingdom
- Barsetshire - Anthony Trollope's fictional locale
- Borsetshire - from The Archers
- Loamshire - George Eliot's fictional locale, also used by other authors, most notably as home of the Loamshire Regiment
- Mortshire - used in the works of Edward Gorey.
- Midsomer - setting of Midsomer Murders.
- Quantumshire - from Nebulous.
- Radfordshire or Downshire the setting for St. Mary Mead in the Miss Marple novels and short stories by Agatha Christie. This county is close to or borders the fictional counties of Glenshire, Southshire and Middleshire.
- Rutshire - setting of the Rutshire Chronicles by Jilly Cooper
- Slopshire - county in the West Country containing Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, home of Doctor Dolittle
- South Riding of Yorkshire - setting for South Riding by Winifred Holtby.
- Trumptonshire - setting of the interrelated TV series Camberwick Green, Trumpton, and Chigley
- Wessex - the name Thomas Hardy used for his fictional locale
- Worfordshire or to be more precise South Worfordshire the setting in English/Welsh borderlands for the novel Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe.
[edit] United States
- Balboa County, California - location of Neptune in Veronica Mars
- Beechum County, Alabama - fictional county where the movie My Cousin Vinny takes place.
- Blackwood County, Texas - scenes from X-Files: Fight the Future
- Bloom County, unspecified state - rural setting of the comic strip of the same name.
- Bone County, San Andreas - one of three counties in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
- Braddock County, Texas - site of the fictional Southfork Ranch on the TV show Dallas.
- Caldecott County, Mississippi - home of the Marvel Comics character Rogue
- Calusa County, Florida - home base of fictional defense attorney, Matthew Hope, created by mystery author Ed McBain.
- Carburetor County, California - location of Radiator Springs in Cars
- Chinquapin Parish, Louisiana - setting for Steel Magnolias
- Cobblestone County, unspecified state - the home of Bedrock in The Flintstones
- Cowdonkey County, unspecified state - Pafman
- District X in the Marvel Comic of the same name.
- Farmington, Los Angeles in the television series The Shield.
- Flint County, San Andreas - one of three counties in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
- Greenbow County, Alabama - The County of Forrest Gump
- 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.
- Herndon County, Minnesota? - workplace of Ruth Harrison, the contentious reference librarian whose adventures are occasionally featured on A Prairie Home Companion.
- Hill County, California - setting of the Back to the Future films, includes the fictional towns of Hill Valley, Elmdale and Haysville.
- Huntington County, New Jersey - the setting of the wealthy town of Vlyvalle in Dirk Wittenborn's novel Fierce People. Possibly based on Hunterdon County.
- Kindle County - unspecified Midwestern United States state - setting of Scott Turow novels
- Klail City- Belken County Rio Grande Valley- setting of Rolando Hinojosa-Smith's novels of the Klail City Death Trip Series.
- Kornfield Kounty, unspecified state - setting of variety show Hee Haw
- Livermore County, California - setting of some activity in Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full. Refers to southeastern Alameda County, California, where Livermore is located.
- 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
- Moose County, unspecified state - "400 miles north of everywhere," the setting of Lillian Jackson Braun's Cat Who... stories
- Ramilly County, Maryland in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
- Red County, San Andreas - one of three counties in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
- Spittle County, unspecified state - rural county adjacent to Springfield in The Simpsons
- Springfield County, unspecified state -County the city of Springfield is in, in The Simpsons
- Swartzwelder County, unspecified state - rural county near Springfield in The Simpsons; reference to show writer John Swartzwelder.
- Wanker County, Wisconsin - Rural county in Married... with Children, birthplace of Peg Bundy (née Wanker)
- Wilbur County, Oregon - A rural county in Central Oregon which is the setting for the multi-blog fiction The Germaine Truth by Duane Poncy and Patricia J. McLean.
- Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi - William Faulkner's fictional county
[edit] Orbital
- Clarke County, Space - from the novel Clarke County, Space by Allen Steele
