Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Herkimer, KS

Herkimer is a census-designated place (CDP) in Marshall County in northeastern Kansas — an unincorporated community, not a city — named after Herkimer, New York.

The first settlement near Herkimer was made in 1858, when the Fredericks brothers and H. Lenker settled on Horseshoe Creek, and a townsite was laid out in 1878 on land owned by its founder, O. Keller.

A post office was first established in the area in 1874 under the name Reamer Creek, opened as Herkimer in 1878, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1974.

In 1910 Herkimer was the business center for Logan Township with a telegraph, express, and post office, and its population was 225.

On April 26, 1902, a fire destroyed every business building in Herkimer except the elevator and Doctor Tayes' drug store, causing a loss exceeding $40,000, and the town never fully recovered.

By 1917 Herkimer still had the Herkimer State Bank, a general merchandise store, a hardware store, a garage and automobile dealership, a blacksmith, a restaurant, a pool hall, and a grain elevator, but its population had fallen to about 130 people.

School District No. 63 was organized at Herkimer in 1870 and a stone schoolhouse was built, and the Herkimer school continued teaching students until 1966; the community is now served by the Marysville USD 364 public school district.

The 2020 census counted 54 people in 26 households and 22 families in the Herkimer CDP, at a density of about 57.6 people per square mile, and the surrounding Herkimer Township counted 191 people.

Major League Baseball outfielder Elmer Le Roy "Butch" Nieman, who played for the Boston Braves from 1943 to 1945 after playing at Kansas State University, was born in Herkimer in 1918.