You know how they always went to "Mount Pilot"?
It's actually Pilot Mountain.
Very true...actually, some of the names on the show are based on cities in NC...Lawsonville (Floyd Lawson), Taylorsville (Andy,etc.) are two examples. "Mayberry" is loosely based on Mt. Airy, NC, even though that town lies in the western part of the state near the Virginia border. They never come out and say exactly where "Mayberry" is, but based on its proximity to Raleigh and Currituck, it seems to be in the east.
Can anyone remember the one time the city of Greensboro (where I live) was mentioned?