The answer to this question has always been a mystery. Was Hooterville located in Illinois because there were references to Chicago in a few of the episodes?

Was Hooterville located in California because the opening scenes of "GREEN ACRES" were filmed in a rural area north of Los Angeles? (I hope that the Douglases' farmhouse was earthquake proof.)

Was Hooterville located in the South because a lot of the characters either had Southern accents or Southern-sounding names? Could it have been located in either the Ozarks, the Great Smokey Mountains, the Appalachians, or even the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

If it was 81 degrees on Christmas Eve, could Hooterville have been located in Florida? I don't think so because I've been to Florida and it doesn't have mountainous or hilly terrain?

In the episode in which Lisa and Oliver were in New York on a two-week vacation, an old girlfriend of Oliver said to him that he bought a farm in Connecticut? Could it have been there?

The answer to this question will always remain a mystery.

As the crow flies, it was about 5 mi. northwest of Pixley, and about 7 mi S.E. of Bugtussle.

That's HooterSville Dahling

Hooterville, if near Pixley, has to be in central California. Pixley is a real place on Hwy.99, and as the Hooterville Cannonball was actually the Sierra Railway #3, which runs not far from there, I like to think it's still somewhere not far from Porterville. Is it a coincidence that Porterville and Hooterville sound similar, and both are near Pixley? I think not!

One of my resoures says Virginia but I really don't believe it. I think it was located in Illinois.

Originally posted by NAN ELIZABETH:
The answer to this question has always been a mystery. Was Hooterville located in Illinois because there were references to Chicago in a few of the episodes?

Was Hooterville located in California because the opening scenes of "GREEN ACRES" were filmed in a rural area north of Los Angeles? (I hope that the Douglases' farmhouse was earthquake proof.)

Was Hooterville located in the South because a lot of the characters either had Southern accents or Southern-sounding names? Could it have been located in either the Ozarks, the Great Smokey Mountains, the Appalachians, or even the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

If it was 81 degrees on Christmas Eve, could Hooterville have been located in Florida? I don't think so because I've been to Florida and it doesn't have mountainous or hilly terrain?

In the episode in which Lisa and Oliver were in New York on a two-week vacation, an old girlfriend of Oliver said to him that he bought a farm in Connecticut? Could it have been there?

The answer to this question will always remain a mystery.

In one of the episodes they are aked what state they are from. Oliver answers "The Kangaroo State". In another episode they visit the governor and lisa is given a stuffed kangaroo as a gift.

Howard: I will have to look that up. I don't know what the Kangaroo State is.

I always got the impression that it could have been located somewhere in the Mid-South region. (Tennessee?) I can't produce any solid evidence to support this - just a hunch.

Originally posted by NAN ELIZABETH
The answer to this question has always been a mystery. Was Hooterville located in Illinois because there were references to Chicago in a few of the episodes?

Was Hooterville located in California because the opening scenes of "GREEN ACRES" were filmed in a rural area north of Los Angeles? (I hope that the Douglases' farmhouse was earthquake proof.)

Was Hooterville located in the South because a lot of the characters either had Southern accents or Southern-sounding names? Could it have been located in either the Ozarks, the Great Smokey Mountains, the Appalachians, or even the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

If it was 81 degrees on Christmas Eve, could Hooterville have been located in Florida? I don't think so because I've been to Florida and it doesn't have mountainous or hilly terrain?

In the episode in which Lisa and Oliver were in New York on a two-week vacation, an old girlfriend of Oliver said to him that he bought a farm in Connecticut? Could it have been there?

The answer to this question will always remain a mystery.
Din't The Clampets from the Beverly Hillbilies come from Hooterville or somthing like that?

I could have sworn that they say it is in the Ozarks.

If I can recall I think it was in California, and I heard that the green acres that were filmed on the show were cleared for new condiminiums, and are filled up all over. When I heard the news I was very sad.

The Clampett's were from Bugtustle (a.k.a. Branson, Missouri).

I think Hooterville was on the move. :)

There were quite a few cross-references between the Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres/Petticoat Junction. I just saw a Hillbillies episode the other night when Jasbo Depew mentions to Jethrene Bodine that "there is a dance over in Hooterville tonight" suggesting it would be in Southern Missouri somewhere.

On Green Acres one time they were planning on going to Chicago and I seem to remember a mention that Chicago was 5 or 6 hours away. That would narrow down a circle too.

Although, on a Beverly Hillbillies episode recently Mr. Drysdale wanted to be driven to Hooterville and it was inferred that they got there without an overnight stop - indicating that Hooterville was in the West.

I cannot cite specific examples but I also recall things at different times on the program to lead me to believe that Hooterville was in New England.

So, my take on it is that Hooterville was located wherever it was handy at the time.

:)

I've always assumed it's just somewhere in the midwest. I guess tha's just one of those "tv show questions" that people will still be asking for years!

Another conflict on Hooterville's location.

On the Beverly Hillbillies a night or two ago, Jane Hathaway was driving the Clampett's to Hooterville and the phrase "we'll have to drive most of the night to get there" was used.

That would put Hooterville in the Western US.

As I earlier mentioned, Hooterville was referenced on the Hillbillies (when they were back home) as being nearby.

So, conclusive proof that Hooterville was not in a fixed location if the rest of the geographical US really exists as we know it. :p

maybe, when Hooterville was refrenced on the hillbilies, it was a different Hooterville. It's possible. There'smore than one town with the same name in some places.

Well, both had a "Drucker's General Store", a kid named Eb Dawson hanging around, a Shady Rest Motel, and Fred Ziffel with his arm in the pickel barrel.

I would say that would be the same spot.

I was watching an old episode of BH this morning, ( It was one of the 1st episodes when they 1st moved from "wherever" to Beverly Hills). As Mr. Brewster & the "Wildcatter" that Elly Mae had earlier beaned with a rock, hovered above the swamp in a helicopter, they made reference to the fact that this would be the richest oil strike in "eastern Texas"! Do the Ozarks extend to E. Texas???

Jim

No, they don't.

Originally posted by bigj
I was watching an old episode of BH this morning, ( It was one of the 1st episodes when they 1st moved from "wherever" to Beverly Hills). As Mr. Brewster & the "Wildcatter" that Elly Mae had earlier beaned with a rock, hovered above the swamp in a helicopter, they made reference to the fact that this would be the richest oil strike in "eastern Texas"! Do the Ozarks extend to E. Texas???

Jim

Actually, the line was"This will be the biggest oil strike *since* easter Texas".

As for the location of Hooterville, presumably it's within traveling distance of Bug Tussle, which could be anywhere from the Smokies of Tenneesee to central Arkansas...they never really pinpointed where these towns and hamlets were located, and, really, if they did pinpoint the location it wolud take all the fun out of trying to figure out where it is. This is done so all the viewers could identify with the characters without those troubling regional prejudices popping up.

But as for my two bucks (inflation, don't you know), I'd say Hooterville is somewhere near the Moussouri-Arkansas border...

On one of the eps (or maybe the reunion movie), the ZIP Code was given as 417?? and 1/2 (the last two should be read as "one half"). It may have been 407etc., but anyway, ZIPs beginning with 417/407/etc. are in Kentucky. My own ZIP growing up was something like 41749. I live in northern KY, and have a 41007 ZIP.

Closest thing to a real identifiable location I've heard, though there is no such thing as a "one half" at the end of any ZIP, and it doesn't agree with "The Beverly Hillbillies" who were definitely from the Ozarks, most likely Missouri.

Sir Rhosis

I always took it to be in the Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky area.

In the episode "How to get from Hooterville to Pixley without moving" Sam Drucker says Hooterville's Zip code is "Three."

In the book THE HOOTERVILLE HANDBOOK, A Viewer's Guide to Green Acres, Jay Sommers is quoted as saying "Hooterville is a state of mind," and not located in any specific geographical state.

The Beverly Hillbillies weren't located in a specific state either, although Granny always had a soft spot for Tennessee. The Hillbillies always just said they were from "the hills" or "back home." But Hooterville was somewhere near there.

As for "the kangaroo state," there is no state with that mascot (and no state with the "state flower" being the ragweed, either!)

I now know it was probably in Illonois, because I saw the first episode on TV LAND, and Oliver was leaving for Chicago in one scene (the Douglases were still in New York at this point). After he got back, he told Lisa that he had stopped to look at a farm in Hottervile. She asked him if that's close to Chicago, and Oliver said something like "Well, nearby".

Well sort of. She says "Is it near Chicago?" and he says, "Yeah, kind of....you just have to change planes twice, take a bus over to Pixley, then you get on this little train and... there you are." Or something to that effect. So with that description, it could be several states away! :)

I've also read that quote from Jay Sommers about Hooterville being a state of mind. But when it comes down to it Jay Sommers didn't create Hooterville -- executive producer Paul Henning did as the setting for "Petticoat Junction". "Acres" was Sommers' creation, but was located in Hooterville for crossover purposes with "PJ". Henning has said that the hotel on "PJ" was inspired by his grandmother's hotel in Missouri, where he often visited as a child.

But ultimately, I think the Hooterville on "Green Acres" is in an alternate reality from the one on "Petticoat Junction". After all, on "PJ", Kate Bradley is said to be a distant cousin of Pearl Bodine, the mother of Jethro on "The Beverly Hillbillies" (Bea Benederet played both roles). And characters from the "Hillbillies", as well as "Green Acres", have visited "PJ". But while characters from "PJ" turned up on "Green Acres", no one from "Beverly Hillbillies" did. Instead, the "Green Acres" characters knew that "Hillbillies" was a TV show, and they once even put on a play that was based on their favorite TV show..."The Bevery Hillbillies"!

On the Christmas episode the other day people were wearing lightweight jackets (except for Lisa who had on a sleeveless dress.) Oliver wanted it to snow, so Lisa said, "Snow" and it did. Oliver looks out the window and asks how it could possibly snow when it was 81 degrees outside. So I thought it must be somewhere warm like California, BUT an episode a couple of days ago showed where the temperature dropped below freezing and everyone was bringing in their tomato plants. Most of the time everyone has on summer looking clothes though.:rolleyes:

i recall chicago being mentioned. and it was a four hour flight form chicago. if the flight was in one of those god awful crop dusters, four hours could have been a couple hours drive if that far, i would imagine.
but for all the characters of hooterville and bugtussle to know each other so well, they would have to be close by. "the hills" as jed called it would be a southern state as granny was a conferate. appalachain or ozarks???? i will go with near tennessee.

I know it's a very nebulous issue, since there really isn't an answer, but I had a theory that it was Iowa, but I have no evidence whatsoever.

> In one of the episodes they are aked what state they are from. Oliver answers "The Kangaroo State".

Is this the one where Oliver says that the state's theme song is "Yes, we have no bananas"?

B

I don't even think that Hooterville is even in a real state.

And the episode that he says the theme song is "Yes, we have no bananas" is the episode were Lisa's mother is coming to Hooterville and they ask Oliver if her country has a national anthem.

I would think it was in Misouri, since that's where the creator was from and got his inspiration for the Hillbillies.

in one of the first "B.H." ("Beverly Hillbillies") episodes, Jasper Depew is talking to Jethrine, and invites her to a dance in Pixley. So, it's probably somewhere in Arkansas, where the Clampetts were from. That's according to the obituary of Jerry Scrogins (singer of the "B.H." theme "The Ballad of Jed Clampett") that I read on mortystv.com

...but he NEVER gave specific details as to WHERE the Clampetts came from, or where "Hooterville" is. It was a sort of "never-never" Ozarks that they lived in, same as the fine people of Hooterville (and Pixley). In "GREEN ACRES", the "Hooterville" Oliver and Lisa live in eventually becomes "a state of mind"....and how to lose it when you're trying to do one thing, and everyone else does the opposite...and it WORKS!!!

according to that AWFUL "B.H." movie from 1993; they were from Arkansas. However, I don't count that.

I recall reading Arkansas, Indiana, and Illinois. I may be wrong, though.

My vote is the Ozarks, east of Tulsa, Okla.

Reason: in the first BH ep., the oil man tells Jed about coming to the big city, Tulsa.
Jed asks if the city has hotels or something.

I own the BH pilot on DVD and I've watched it like 3 or 4 times, and in the scene you're refering to, Jed doesn't say that. The dialouge goes like this:

Jed to Mr. Brewster (the "oil man"): "Whereabouts do you live"?

Mr. Brewster: "My home is in Tulsa".

Jed: "Well then, why cain't I get a place in your neck o' th' woods"? (the audience laughs)

Mr. Brewster: "Mr. Clampett, let's not beat around the bush. You will LOVE Beverly Hills".

I live in Portersville. She couldnt pronounce it correctly so she said Hootersville
Petty Coat Juction with the water tank is in Springville north about 15 miles in the beginng of the foothills Pixley is about 14 miles to the east of Portersville
A number of Hollywood people live in Springville including Capt Kirk of the StarShip Enterprise there were acouple of other things about that but dont remember off hand I came across this blog and just had to get on before everyone change subject ha thanks for the wake me up 700 AM here
bye all
KK

HI my is Keith

I answered the location of Hootersville on Page 3 I live in Portersville All of us that grew up here have a southern accent our parents mostly came here from the south during and after the depression and yes by galley we do act like that
maybe not so much now that that the crazies are coming over the grapevine now you have to lock the doors at night mmmm
Have a good day
and may the Great spirit bless you
KK
Im new at this this hope it hits its mark

Hooterville could possibly be located in Virginia. In Return to Green Acres, Mr. Drucker states that the Hooterville zip code is, 40516 and 1/2. The zip code for Lexington, Kentucky is, 40516. Also, in the Green Acres special edition three tape set, the host states that Hooterville is in Virginia.

Hooterville could possibly be located in Virginia. In Return to Green Acres, Mr. Drucker states that the Hooterville zip code is, 40516 and 1/2. The zip code for Lexington, Kentucky is, 40516. Also, in the Green Acres special edition three tape set, the host states that Hooterville is in Virginia.


I do remember that, and it also works because of the fact that they say they're not that far from Chicago. lol, you could possibly switch planes twice from there to get to Chicago.

Hooterville isn't in any specific place. Neither is the Cleaver's hometown of Mayfield. And Hilldale where both the Stone family of the Donna Reed Show and the Mitchell Family of Dennis The Menace lived wasn't in a specific geographic location either. And there is a reason why. The producers of these shows wanted people from all around the country to be able to relate to these towns and the characters who lived there. So they gave them fictional names and were careful never to give enough information to pinpoint their locations. That way viewers all over the country could feel like these people might live in their own backyard.