Hawkins, the town from Stranger Things , is set in the fictional state of Indiana in the United States.

Quick Scoop

  • In the Netflix series, Hawkins is explicitly described as being in Indiana.
  • It is a fictional town, not a real place you can visit on a map.
  • The show is filmed in Georgia, but the story world treats Hawkins as a small Midwestern Indiana community.

Extra Context

Fans and local newspapers note that Hawkins was invented by the Duffer Brothers as a kind of homage to Stephen King–style small towns, giving them flexibility without matching any real Indiana town exactly.

Because of this, online discussions often speculate about where in Indiana it would roughly be, but there is no official real-world counterpart.

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