Where were the Clampetts from?

Answer 1

The Beverly Hillbillies was sometimes cagey about pinning down exactly where the Clampetts had lived, usually referring to their home region simply as "the Hills." But it was generally understood to be the Ozarks (Southwestern Missouri and Northwestern Arkansas), specifically the town of Bug Tussle. A series of episodes around the middle of the run of the series saw the Clampetts returning to Silver Dollar City, which was (at the time) a new theme park near Branson, though it was treated as an actual town on the show. One of the preliminary titles of Petticoat Junction, a spinoff of The Beverly Hillbillies set near the Clampetts' original home, was Ozark Widow.