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.

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

• 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

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