Camden County

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Camden County is a county in which the protagonists of My Name is Earl reside. The most often seen locations within Camden are the trailer park, the motel and the Crab Shack. Every year there is a fair held in Camden, the Camden County Fair. There is a group of Amish-type people that live in the outskirts of Camden County, known as the Camdenites.

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• The background characters of My Name is Earl and residents of Camden County, including Nescobar-A-Lop-Lop, Donny Jones, Kenny James and Ralph Mariano are often collectively known as the Camdens.
• The state in which the show takes place is never mentioned, but according to the creator, Greg Garcia, the show takes place in the fictional county of Camden (not to be confused with the actual Camden Counties in New Jersey, Missouri, Georgia, and North Carolina). Creator Garcia said that the town is named after his son. The references to Maryland locations (such as Hagerstown, Cumberland, Shady Grove, and Frostburg University) are due to his familiarity with an area he hails from and that "the show doesn’t technically take place anywhere ... we like to think it’s anywhere. We don’t really say exactly where it is."
• The Pilot episode showed that Earl and Joy drove from Camden County to Las Vegas, Nevada within a single night, suggesting a location in the American Southwest. Also, the frequent appearance of palm trees as Earl and Randy drive around town imply that that Camden County must be in a southern state. Combined with the fact that illegal immigrants enter Camden directly strongly suggests that Camden is close to the Mexican-United States Border.
• In one of the episodes, there is Budweiser lamp on on the wall in the Crab Shack shaped like Texas, suggesting that Camden might be in there.
• In "Inside Probe (Part 1)" Earl mentions that Camden County is in the Central Time Zone.