Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Herriman, UT

Herriman is a city in southwestern Salt Lake County, Utah, in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.

It was established in 1851 by Henry Harriman, Thomas Jefferson Butterfield, John Jay Stocking, and Robert Cowan Petty, and it was named for Henry Harriman.

A fort was established where the community garden is today, and the only remnants of Fort Herriman are two black locust trees near the entry to the old fort.

Herriman remained a small community until 1999, when residents petitioned to incorporate it as a town; it became a city on April 19, 2001.

The 2020 census counted 55,144 residents and 15,360 households in Herriman, up from just 1,523 residents in 2000.

Herriman grew from the 111th-largest incorporated place in Utah in 2000 to the 14th-largest in 2020.

In 2007 Rosecrest won a lawsuit that allowed about 4,000 acres to be annexed out of neighboring Bluffdale into Herriman.

On September 19, 2010, a wildfire started during a National Guard exercise at Camp Williams south of Herriman burned 3,500 acres, destroyed three homes, and forced more than 1,200 homes to evacuate.

Herriman is home to the Zions Bank Real Academy soccer complex, the training facility for Real Salt Lake, which includes Zions Bank Stadium, a 5,000-seat stadium.

The city has two high schools, Herriman High School, opened in 2010, and Mountain Ridge High School, opened in 2019, and its public schools are run by the Jordan School District.