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Quahog (pronounced [ˈkoʊhɒɡ] "koh-hawg") is a fictional city in Providence County, Rhode Island where the animated television comedy Family Guy is set. The Griffin family, the Brown family, the Swanson family, and Glenn Quagmire live on Spooner Street, with the Griffin family residing at 31 Spooner Street. According to Mayor Adam West in "Fifteen Minutes of Shame", the town was founded by Myles "Chatterbox" Musket. He was a sailor on the colony of New York boat and was thrown overboard for "speaking his mind" (non-stop). According to legend, a magical clam rescued him and brought him ashore, sharing the same vision as Musket: founding a new town named Quahog. The clam later left Musket, because Musket contemplated killing him. Musket never spoke again, and later died of a combination of tuberculosis and a tomahawk to the head. These events are celebrated every year as "Quahog clam festival".

Adam West, who shares a name and is voiced by the actor who portrayed Batman on the 1960s TV series, is the mayor of Quahog. Quahog's local celebrities are the anchors of its Channel 5 news show, Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons. The Drunken Clam is a bar that protagonist Peter Griffin and his friends frequently visit. Lois's Aunt Margarite left her estate in Newport, Rhode Island to the Griffins, which they made an extended visit to in Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater, and eventually sold. In the episode "E. Peterbus Unum" it is found out that Peter's house is not part of Quahog, and not even part of the United States of America, in which he calls the new territory Petoria.