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This map has a lot of issues, so I spent an unnecessary amount of time fact-checking all the shows and where they're located. Places in "italicised quotes" aren't real places. Using the "town, state" format even for big cities to make things clearer. I know probably too much about American geography for someone who's never been there, and I still get confused.

CORRECT

Molly of Denali: "Qyah", Alaska Clarence: "Aberdale", Arizona South Park: "South Park", Colorado The Amazing World of Gumball: "Elmore", California Sit Down, Shut Up: "Knob Haven", Florida Squidbillies: "Dougal County", Georgia Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Unnamed locality in Kauai, Hawaii Napoleon Dynamite: Preston, Idaho Twelve Forever: "Bethune", Iowa Courage the Cowardly Dog: "Nowhere", Kansas Hoops: "Lenwood", Kentucky Bunnicula: New Orleans, Louisiana The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper: Friendship, Maine Craig of the Creek: "Herkleton", Maryland The Loud House: "Royal Woods", Michigan The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends: "Frostbite Falls", Minnesota Ellen's Acres: A hotel outside Tonopah, Nevada Assy McGee: Exeter, New Hamspshire Kid Cosmic: Unnamed town, New Mexico Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New York, New York Big Mouth: Westchester County, New York The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants: Piqua, Ohio Gravity Falls: Gravity Falls, Oregon Arthur: "Elwood City", Pennsylvania (confirmed by the show's official Twitter) Little Bill: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Family Guy: "Quahog", Rhode Island The Legend of Calamity Jane: Deadwood, South Dakota King of the Hill: "Arlen", Texas (Didn't even look this one up until I needed the city name) Beavis and Butt-Head: "Highland", Texas (The state wasn't made explicit until the 2022 movie Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe) American Dad!: "Langley Falls", Virginia Rick and Morty: Somewhere outside Seattle, Washington

CORRECT, BUT

The Owl House: "Gravesfield", Connecticut (Much more heavily set in Bonesborough in the Boiling Isles, which is not a real place, though a few episodes do return to Gravesfield) Steven Universe: "Beach City", "Delmarva" (The landmasses are a little different in the universe of Steven... Universe, and the state of Delaware doesn't exist, but an official map labels the body of water north of Beach City as Rehoboth Bay, which is a real bay in Delaware, and would put Beach City in the same location as the real-world Long Neck, Delaware) (RIP to everything south of Indian River Bay, though) Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman: Boston, Massachusetts (This is a live action kid's game show with an animated host, so I'm not sure it qualifies as an animated series) Infinity Train: North Branch, Minnesota (The show is set on a magical train that travels through an otherworldly desert. The main human character of the first season is from Minnesota, but she spends almost the entire season trapped on the train, and the other seasons follow different characters, and generally spend even less time on Earth) Futurama: "New New York", "New New York" (New New York City is explicitly built over the ruins of its real-world counterpart, and is basically New York But Futuristic)

IMPLIED

Rugrats: Unnamed city (All indications point to California) Garfield and Friends: Unnamed City (Garfield is very occasionally stated to take place in Muncie, Indiana, where its creator Jim Davis lives, but I don't know if the Garfield and Friends show ever brings this up. I don't think US Acres was ever given a location) Bob's Burgers: "Seymour's Bay" (Evidence points to New Jersey, but it's never made explicit) (I'm finding conflicting things on whether Seymour's Bay is the canon name or an out-of-universe nickname) Jimmy Neutron: "Retroville" (A Texas number plate is visible in the movie, and a line on a map showing a trip the characters take in one episode clearly starts in Texas. Otherwise, the state is never specified)

UNCLEAR

Recess: Unnamed city (One episode has the kids take the Arkansas Elementary School Achievement Test, which is the basis for it being put in Arkansas in this map. Coordinates given in another episode would put the school in Pennsylvania) Regular Show: "City" (A few things indicate California, including the state flag being visible in one episode, but other things contradict this and place it further east) Curious George: "City" (The location was never given in the books, but the show has a line that says that the airport the characters are currently at is in Chicago, Illinois) The Boondocks: "Woodcrest" (The comic strip is definitely set in Maryland, but the show has some indications early on that it's set in Chicago, Illinois, with the exception of an episode where the main characters fly back to Chicago to attend a funeral. Later episodes imply that the show is set in Maryland) The Chicken Squad: Unnamed locality (An episode about a lost phone implies that the show is set in North Dakota. I can't find much more than that) Harvey Girls Forever!: "Harvey Street" (One episode includes a view from space of a bright light on the street, but the location is vague, and looks more like Missouri than Oklahoma to me. A showrunner confirmed on Twitter that this shot did not mean the show was set in Kansas, and that the street is actually "located in the great state of… oops, out of characters!") Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: "The Neighborhood of Make-Believe" (Disclaimer: I never saw Mr Rogers' Neighborhood because it's an extremely North American thing. But I think the title neighbourhood was literally supposed to be Fred Rogers' neighbourhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while the Neighborhood of Make-Believe was always an imaginary place with no real-world counterpart.) Peanuts: Unnamed City (I'm not sure which Peanuts animated series this is on the map, but the comics never make the location explicit. The closest is a strip from 1957, in which Lucy shows off a trophy that names her "Outstanding Fussbudget of Hennepin County". That would place the setting in Minnesota, in or near Minneapolis. But a later strip from 1963 introduces a character named 555 95472, whose surname has been changed to his ZIP code. ZIP code 95472 is in Sebastopol, California, where Charles Shultz's studio was.) Hey Arnold!: "Hillwood" (There are a lot of indications that the series takes place in the US part of the Pacific Northwest, so Oregon, Washington or Idaho. And at the end of one episode, Helga and her mother are seen driving past a "Welcome To Washington State" sign when returning from out of state. But there are also some implications that it takes place in New York City, particularly with the architecture, and the way the school is numbered)

DEFINITELY INCORRECT

Sniz & Fondue: Unnamed locality (Only source on being located in Missouri seems to be an addition to the Wikipedia page in November 2006 with no edit reason given) Big City Greens: "Big City" (The show is based in part on the creators' childhood in rural Michigan, but the show itself never mentions a state.) (If Michigan gets Big City Greens, might as well give Alabama Phineas and Ferb for similar reasons. Give the south something.) Sheep in the Big City: "The Big City" (Only source on being located in Missouri seems to be an addition to the Wikipedia page in January 2010) with no edit reason given) Daria: "Lawndale" (The setting of the show is unclear, but it doesn't appear to be set in Texas. The setting is extremely urban northeast, in my opinion. In an interview, one of the show creators said that he thought of the setting as being a mid-Atlantic suburb, and gave Maryland and Pennsylvania as possible locations. The idea that the show is in Texas seems to be based on the show being a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-Head, but Daria's family explicitly moved to Lawndale from Highland at the beginning of the first episode.) Chalkzone: "Plainville" (Only source on being located in Wisconsin seems to be an addition to the Wikipedia page in November 2006 with no edit reason given)

OTHER POSSIBILITIES (not on the map)

-The Ace Ventura: Pet Detective cartoon is set in Miami, Florida, and has a lot more episodes than Sit Down, Shut up -The Beetlejuice cartoon is set in "Peaceful Pines", Connecticut, and has more episodes than the Owl House, as well as seeming to spend more time in the real world. -I don't know much about China, IL, but it is unambiguously set in Illinois, unlike Curious George, or the Boondocks. Has less episodes than either of those, though. -Soul Eater is set in "Death City", Nevada, and only has one less episode than Ellen's Acres, with double the running time. -If Big Mouth is a runner-up for New York, Archer should be too. Even discounting the seasons that moved the setting to Los Angeles, or Los Angeles but in the 40s, or a fictional Pacific Island, or space, it's got more episodes than Big Mouth. -The animated show set in the District of Columbia with the most episodes is either Our Cartoon President, or Freakazoid!, depending on how you define an episode. Couldn't find anything for any of the US's overseas territories.

Longest Running Cartoon Set in Each State (based off of number of episodes)