Blaine County

"Escape the hustle and bustle of city life with a trip to beautiful rural Blaine County. Only a few miles away from Los Santos in terms of distance but a million miles away in terms of general outlook on the world, Blaine County is a place to enjoy a simpler life from a forgotten time. Visit Blaine County. Don't be a stranger; they don't like them"

- GTA V digital manual

Blaine County is a county in southern San Andreas, featured in Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online. It is bordered by Los Santos County to the south and Paleto County to the northwest. Blaine County's characteristics include an open desert region, as well as thick forests with large mountains. Blaine County is the single largest rural area in the GTA Series. Blaine County contains the towns of Sandy Shores, Grapeseed and Paleto Bay, as well as several other smaller settlements. The county's border is the Route 68, which divides Blaine Country from Los Santos County in the south. Even though being a separate county, it is also patrolled by the Los Santos County Sheriff Department as Sheriff Cruisers can be seen patrolling the highways.

Towns

 * Grapeseed (Calipatria/Wister/Cherry Valley)
 * Sandy Shores (Desert Shores/Bombay Beach)
 * Paleto Bay (Fillmore)
 * North Chumash (Port Hueneme and Santa Barbara)

Villages

 * Stab City (Slab City)
 * Galilee (Niland)
 * Cape Catfish (Pigeon Point, Pescadero)
 * Harmony (Oasis/Victorville)
 * Dignity Village

Mountains, Ranges, & Valleys

 * Chiliad Mountain State Wilderness (San Gorgonio Wilderness)
 * Raton Canyon (Bixby Creek)
 * Mount Chilliad (Mount San Gorgonio/Big Bear Mountain)
 * Braddock Pass (Yucca Valley)
 * Mount Gordo (Mount San Jacinto)
 * San Chianski Mountain Range (San Jacinto Mountains)
 * Mount Josiah (Mount San Antonio)

Places of Interest

 * 140 Zancudo Avenue
 * 0232 Paleto Boulevard
 * 1893 Grapeseed Avenue
 * 4401 Procopio Drive
 * 4584 Procopio Drive
 * Beam Me Up (Salvation Mountain)
 * Bolingbroke Penitentiary (California Correctional Institution or Tehachapi Prison)
 * El Gordo Lighthouse (Pigeon's Point)
 * Fort Zancudo (Naval Base Ventura County)
 * Grand Senora Desert (Palm Desert/Mojave Desert)
 * Heart Attack Beach (San Gregorio State Beach)
 * Lago Zancudo (Mugu Lagoon)
 * Paleto Forest (San Bernardino National Forest)
 * RON Alternates Wind Farm (San Gorgonio Pass and Mohave Valley/Tehachapi Wind Farm)

Airfields

 * Sandy Shores Airfield (Apple Valley Airport)
 * McKenzie Field Runway

Notable Residents

 * Altruist Cult Victim
 * Ashley Butler (until 2013)
 * Chef
 * Civil Border Patrol  (until 2013)
 * Clay Simons (until 2013)
 * Cletus Ewing
 * Clinton
 * Elwood O'Neil and the O'Neil Brothers  (until 2013)
 * Griff
 * Janet
 * Jock Cranley (formerly)
 * Johnny Klebitz (until 2013)
 * Jolene Cranley-Evans (formerly)
 * The Lost MC
 * Maude Eccles
 * Michael De Santa (temporarily)
 * Mushroom Hank
 * Patricia Madrazo (temporarily)
 * Ortega (until 2013)
 * Ron Jakowski
 * Ursula (until 2013 if delivered to the Altruist Cult)
 * Terry Thorpe (until 2013)
 * Trevor Philips (until 2013 if option A is chosen)
 * Wade Hebert  (formerly)
 * Wallis

Businesses

 * 24/7
 * Ammu-Nation
 * Animal Ark
 * Blaine County Board of Tourism
 * Blaine County Fleeca Bank
 * Blaine County Savings Bank
 * Buddy's Trucking
 * Checkout!
 * Derelict Motel
 * The Hen House
 * Larry's RV Sales
 * Liquor Ace
 * Liquor Market
 * Rex's Diner
 * Sonar Collections Dock
 * Taco Bomb
 * Trevor Philips Enterprises
 * Up-n-Atom Burger
 * Yellow Jack Inn
 * You Tool

Influence
Blaine County is an amalgamation of several Southern Californian counties adjacent to Los Angeles and the Salton Sea. For example the eastern desert and more rural areas near the Alamo Sea appear to most closely resemble western Imperial and Riverside counties whereas the western and more northerly areas such as North Chumash and Paleto Bay draw inspiration from south western Ventura County, and many of the northernmost and southernmost areas such as Paleto Forest and Bolingbroke Penitentiary, draw inspiration from southern San Bernardino County. The area is also very mountainous compared to the adjacent Los Santos County.

Trivia

 * There is a county in the US State of Idaho also called Blaine County.
 * Some radio stations based in Los Santos (such as West Coast Talk Radio) will fade out into static and switch over to a Blaine County based radio station when the player crosses the county line.
 * Despite being an independent county, Blaine County is still patrolled by the LSSD which logically, should only operate in Los Santos County.
 * The town of Harmony is split in half between Los Santos County and Blaine County, since Route 68 acts as the boundary between the two counties.
 * Trevor Phillips lives in Blaine County because he feels it's more 'authentic' than Los Santos, and it's closer to the production of his stock in trade, meth and guns.

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