List of fictional counties

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

1 Argentina
2 Canada
3 England
4 Republic of Ireland
5 United States
6 Orbital
7 See also
8 References

[edit] Argentina

Uqbar, (from Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius), Jorge Luis Borges's fictional country.
Aquilea, from Invasión, created by Jorge Luis Borges and Hugo Santiago.

[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] England

Barsetshire - Anthony Trollope's fictional locale
Borsetshire - from The Archers
Diddlesex - used in the satirical Punch magazine in the 1840s as the abode of an ex-servant who becomes rich.
Glebeshire - the setting of many of Hugh Walpole's novels.
Loamshire - George Eliot's fictional locale, also used by other authors, such as Donald Jack in his play The Canvas Barricade, in which the butler is the rightful Duke of Loamshire; most notably it is home of the Loamshire Regiment. Kenneth Tynan was critical of a type of play he called 'the Loamshire play', an English middle-class country-house drama. He claimed this was almost the only type of play being written in 1950s Britain.
Mortshire - used in the works of Edward Gorey.
Midsomer - setting of Midsomer Murders.
Naptonshire - Setting for Home Defence training simulations of the 1970s,^[1] analogous to Northamptonshire
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
Winshire - setting of The Midwich Cuckoos.
Worfordshire or to be more precise South Worfordshire - the setting in English/Welsh borderlands for the novel Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe.
Wyvern - County incorporating fictional city of Holby (based on Bristol), the setting for BBC drama productions Casualty, Holby City & HolbyBlue.

[edit] Republic of Ireland

Ring County - From Podge & Rodge A Scare At Bedtime Radio Telefís Éireann

[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.
Belken County, Texas - Rio Grande Valley setting of Rolando Hinojosa-Smith's novels of the Klail City Death Trip Series (KCDTS).
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 five 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, unspecified state - location of Radiator Springs in Cars
Castle County,Maine - location of Castle Rock and Castle View.
Chinquapin Parish, Louisiana - setting for Steel Magnolias
Cobblestone County, unspecified state - the home of Bedrock in The Flintstones
Cowdonkey County, unspecified state - Pafman
Flint County, San Andreas - one of five counties in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Greenbow County, Alabama - The County of Forrest Gump
Haddonfield, Illinois - setting of the Halloween films.
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.
Ironwood County, Minnesota - the setting for the Ironwood County novels by John Schreiber.
Jefferson County, Virginia - setting of the television series The Waltons.
Kindle County, unspecified Midwestern United States state setting in most Scott Turow novels.
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.
Maycomb County, Alabama - fictional setting for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Mississinewa County (through which flows the Mississinewa River) – fictional county of poet Jared Carter
Mist County, Minnesota - the county seat is Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon
Moose County, unspecified state - "400 miles north of everywhere," the setting of Lillian Jackson Braun's Cat Who... stories
Oklawaha County, Florida - setting for Gamble Rogers' songs and stories
Ramilly County, Maryland in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
Red County, San Andreas - one of five 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
Springwood, Ohio - from A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Stevenston County - from Scary Movie.
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