List of fictional counties: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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

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• Barsetshire, UK - Anthony Trollope's fictional locale
• Bloom County, USA - setting of the comic strip of the same name.
• Borsetshire, UK - from The Archers

• Chinquapin Parish, Louisiana - setting for Steel Magnolias

District X in the Marvel Comic of the same name.

• 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.

• Loamshire, UK - George Eliot's fictional locale

• 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

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

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

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