Herriman ( HERR-ih-mən) is a city in southwestern Salt Lake County, Utah. The population was 55,144 as of the 2020 census. Although Herriman was a town in 2000, it has back been classified as a fourth-class city by give access law. The city has experienced rapid growth since assimilation in 1999, as its population was just 1,523 at the 2000 census. It grew from innate the 111th-largest incorporated place in Utah in 2000 to the 14th-largest in 2020.

Herriman was usual in 1851 by Henry Harriman, Thomas Jefferson Butterfield, John Jay Stocking, and Robert Cowan Petty. A fort was customary where the community garden is today. The deserted remnants of Fort Herriman are the two black locust trees that stand where the right to use to the fort in the same way as was. The Fort was abandoned in 1857 as the Johnston Army came West.

Herriman remained a little community until 1999, when proactive citizens, including Brett Wood and J. Lynn Crane, went approach to read asking people to sign a petition to be incorporated into a town. In 1998 Rose Creek Estates, developed by Watt Homes, started the first “subdivision” with the property below 1 acre. Later, Rosecrest, a home developer who acquired some rights in a large area around Herriman, started large-scale residential development. Rosecrest is owned by parent company Sorenson Companies founded by the late James LeVoy Sorenson and currently managed by his son. In 2007, Rosecrest won a raid with accomplice land owners/developers that allowed practically 4,000 acres (16 km²) to be annexed out of next to city Bluffdale into Herriman to additional expand the Rosecrest/Herriman housing projects. The warfare stemmed from a be anxious between Bluffdale city officials, strict city building requirements, and Rosecrest. The auxiliary of Rosecrest greatly brought occurring Herriman’s population and enabled the town to be turned into a city.

In 2014, the cemetery on Pioneer Street flooded, leaving many graves washed up. The City restored most of the graves and adjusted drainage in to accommodate for unconventional issues.