

In the episode "Wildfire," Rick makes his dailyīroadcast to Morgan in the morning and identifies their camp as "a few In season 1, our heroes had made their camp at a quarry on the

State,and, in a non-zombie-infested world, relatively close to Atlanta,Īs there's only a little over 90 miles of road between there and where Reliable reference, it's at least on the Lincoln County side of the North of Atlanta." So, to the extent that Kirkman can be taken as a In which the TWD creator said "I imagine that King County is always During that message board exchange, "joeydoobs" noted that "Rubixcube10" had just referenced a new interview with Robert Kirkman If, that is, TWD's I-85 is meant to be the real I-85. The incident does place King County as somewhere along I-85. In making the map, I relied on captions that incorrectly recorded the dispatcher as saying "Lincoln County." UPDATE (12 March, 2013) - IMDb poster "schatten42" points out that it was Linden, not Lincoln County police requesting assistance in this chase, and, upon review, he's correct. Just before the chase-in-progress gets to them, a radioĭispatcher identifies its location as "2 miles west of Interstate 85."Īs you can see from the map, though, the real I-85 runs nowhere near the real Lincoln County, and county cops chasing anyone "2 miles west of I-85" would have been several Radio and go about setting up a roadblock to apprehend the fleeingįelons. In the pilot, they get the request over the King County is a wholly fictional place where Rick and Shane live and No-accounts, and request assistance from King County law enforcement. Lincoln County police are in pursuit of a group of armed One of those apparent exceptions occurs in the opening moments of They use the names of real places, and often seem to be referencing the actual locations, but there are exceptions, and the reader should keep that in mind. The big caveat to everything I'm about to do here is that TWD's creators do not, at times, seem to be using the real geography of the state of Georgia. My hands, I decided to expand on the discussion here. General vacuum that could use some filling, and, having a little time on viewer of TWD, said it had helped clarify,įor him, where the events depicted on the show were happening. It led to a relatively productive exchange, which is a rare thing, indeed, for the TWD board these days. Post was an effort to disentangle some of the questions of geography,Īt least insofar as they could be disentangled. Town was from the prison at which our heroes are currently encamped. There had been a lot of talk on the TWD board about exactly how far that In this week'sĮpisode, "Clear," Rick had revisited his hometown, and, consequently, A few days ago, I put together a post over on the Internet Movieĭatabase about the geography of THE WALKING DEAD.
