border west of Gamaliel. One argument against Kentucky is that one episode says the county seat is 75 miles from Hooterville, and no Kentucky county is that large. Pennsylvania The name Hooterville approximates Hooverville, a term used for the shantytowns that emerged during the Great Depression. But it also approximates Hooversville, Pennsylvania, a bucolic town on railroad tracks in western Pennsylvania. Also, characters on Green Acres visit New York City on occasion and apparently return within a day's time. South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, (and Missouri and Kentucky) In the Petticoat Junction episode "The Valley's New Owner", it is revealed that Hooterville was in a Confederate state during the Civil War. Missouri and Kentucky were Union states during the war, but they were claimed and for a time partially controlled by the Confederacy, which gave them stars in its battle flag. Florida and Louisiana were part of the Confederacy, but are excluded from this list because their elevations are too low (see below). North Dakota An early scene in the 90-minute series pilot (a two-hour presentation with commercials) takes place in the board room of the C&FW Railroad Company, which operates the steam-powered Hooterville Cannonball and the 50-mile spur between the hamlets of Hooterville and Pixley upon which it runs. The senior management team of the C&FW are gathered for a presentation by (presumably) the president of the company, Norman Curtis, in which he proudly exclaims that the "super-charged diesel locomotive," a large model of which is on the conference room table, "is now standard equipment on the entire C&FW system." The curtains are then pulled on the back wall of the conference room (by none other than Homer Bedloe) to reveal a map of the C&FW Railroad line. The map shows that the C&FW system serves the northern Great Plains area of the United States, from Lake Superior in the east, into Montana and Wyoming in the west, as far south (but no farther) than Nebraska, and as far north as the Dakotas. The newly-updated C&FW system is indicated with broad lines on the map, with all of the towns along the mainline indicated with white dots. As Curtis proudly points to the map, calling the C&FW the "most modern, most progressive ...," he is stopped short by a small scrawl on the map. When the camera zooms in, the scrawl turns out