Editing Cumberland County, Maine (section)

==In popular culture==
The fictional town of [[Jerusalem's Lot (Stephen King)|Jerusalem's Lot]], featured in the [[vampire]] novel ''[['Salem's Lot]]'' by [[Stephen King]], is situated in Cumberland County. King makes passing reference to other nearby towns and cities, including Portland, Falmouth, and Westbrook.

The video game ''[[Trauma Team]]'' takes place in Cumberland County in the year 2020, referencing [[Portland, Maine|Portland]] and its [[Back Cove, Portland, Maine|Back Cove]] neighborhood. Neither actual hospital housed in Portland is mentioned in-game; instead, a fictional trauma center called Resurgam First Care is fabricated for the plot (in real life, Portland's city motto is "Resurgam", Latin for "I will rise again"). Two other fictional places are mentioned that reference the county name: "Cumberland College" and "Cumberland Institute of Forensic Medicine".