Most boring county

[silverback1065]

all 82 counties of mississippi

[TravelingBethelite]

Specifically, the northern-most counties of the state. What a snooze-fest Alcorn, Benton, Marshall, and DeSoto counties are, especially east of the Memphis metro.

[MikeTheActuary]

I'd go with Arthur County, myself. Cherry County at least has a sizeable (for upper Plains states) town.

Arthur County is the site of the smallest courthouse in the US, which is sorta interesting.

[wphiii]

How about Pershing County, NV?  That's pretty rough.

Burning Man, though!

[clong]

I'm doing my couple-times-annual Cincinnati to Detroit trip tomorrow for Thanksgiving.  That drive is boring, boring, boring.  But I would nominate Shelby County, Ohio as the MOST boring singular county in that trip.  Just flat, no-mans-land between Dayton and Lima.

For that matter, Shelby County, INDIANA is also boring --- the most boring part of the Cincinnati-Indianapolis drive on I-74.  At least there's some terrain down in far Southwest Indiana.  But once you reach Shelby County, it's flat and dull, just waiting for Indianapolis to appear.

So, hmmmmmmmm.  Maybe there is a trend here.  Maybe ALL Shelby Counties are boring.  The other Shelby Counties in America:

(1) Shelby County, Alabama: I've never been there.

(2) Shelby County, Illinois: Kind of non-descript Central Illinois plains.  Yeah, it was boring.

(3) Shelby County, Iowa: I've never been here, but I have been to the county just to the southeast.  Cass County, Iowa, which is among the most boring counties on I-80's treck through Iowa.  So, yeah, I'm going to guess Shelby County, Iowa is boring too.

(4) Shelby County, Kentucky: This is in Bourbon Trail Country!!!!!  Most definitely NOT boring!!!!

(5) Shelby County, Missouri: Part of the US-36 Chicago-Kansas City corridor in Northern Missouri.  Which I found to be a pretty boring corridor.  Yes, this one is boring.

(6) Shelby County, Tennessee: This is where Memphis is, urban county, not really boring.

(7) Shelby County, Texas: I've never been here, this is in Piney Woods land.

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So, my conclusion based on this: the "Shelby Counties" in the midwest/Great Lakes region are the most boring "group of similarly named counties."   

I will support your argument in disqualifying Shelby County, AL as boring. It's the county I currently reside in. Lots of good elevation changes (hill type, not mountain peaks), a couple of waterfalls, rivers that make most of two borders, Birmingham in the county bordering to the north.