Herriman City Directory Collections
Herriman does not have a verified, continuous local city directory run in the inspected sources. The best starting shelf is the University of Utah Marriott Library Utah City Directories Collection, which brings together regional volumes arranged by place, publisher, date, and set. The collection includes residents, streets, businesses, organizations, institutions, and advertisements. A Salt Lake County hit is useful, but it is not automatically a Herriman hit.
| Collection | Years | Where Held | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah City Directories, including Polk | Scattered 1867–1980s; named years include 1896, 1897, 1906, 1909, 1915, 1926, 1929, 1935–1942, 1919, and 1978 | Marriott Digital Library | Online facets and page images |
| Herriman reverse or criss-cross material | Local run not verified | County Library Services and local holdings to confirm | Ask for a year and address section |
| Salt Lake County newspaper microfilm | Deseret News 1867–January 2015; Tribune 1959–January 2015 | Salt Lake County Archives | Appointment and microfilm research |
| Herriman School registers | 1893–1972, with listed gaps | Utah State Archives, Series 27951 | Catalog and access rules apply |
The year list is a map, not a promise of annual coverage. No source inspected proved a Herriman-specific volume, a continuous Polk run, or a local telephone-book series. Keep an empty year in the worksheet. Do not silently fill it with the nearest volume.
Herriman City Directories at Marriott
The Marriott collection is the strongest inspected online route for a Utah city directory search. Its facets narrow by geography, publisher, date, and set. Displayed places include Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County communities such as Sandy, Murray, Midvale, Holladay, Granger, Kearns, Magna, Union, Taylorsville, Bountiful, and Woods Cross, along with other Utah cities. This range matters for Herriman family history because an older entry may use a regional label rather than the present city name.
R.L. Polk & Co. appears in the researched publisher trail. Named volumes include 1896, 1897, 1906, 1909, 1915, 1926, 1929, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, and 1942. A digitized 1919 Salt Lake City Directory page and 1978 Polk imagery were also located. These findings show the shape of the shelf, not a complete annual sequence. Ask the library or County Library Services to confirm the exact place, year, and holding before treating a hit as Herriman evidence.
For a current address, the historical city directory is a companion record. The address-keyed workflow belongs with modern parcel and street sources. A directory result becomes stronger when its street, year, and household name agree with a deed, tax card, newspaper notice, or census entry.
Read a Herriman City Directory Entry
The digitized 1919 sample shows why a city directory should be read as a page, not treated as a clean name table. Alphabetical entries can include a surname, given name or initial, spouse or widow notation, period occupation, employer abbreviation, residence address, room or apartment, telephone, and marks for board or residence. OCR can split names, lose punctuation, or misread a street number.
The 1919 directory page image and OCR view carries the title and printed-page context needed to check a transcription. Its visible examples include a widow entry, an occupation and employer abbreviation, and r or b style residence and board references. Those marks describe how the volume organized people at that time. They do not prove ownership or a complete household.
| Name | Surname with given name or initial; spouse or widow wording may follow. |
|---|---|
| Occupation | A period field that may add an employer or business abbreviation. |
| Address | Street number and street name, with room or apartment details in some entries. |
| Owner mark | Some runs identify ownership with a symbol or mark; record the key exactly. |
| Residence mark | r can mark residence, while b can mark board or lodging context. |
Photograph the page number and volume title with the entry. OCR is a finding aid. The scan is the better authority when a name or number looks wrong.
Herriman City Directory Terms
Old city directory pages use short labels that make sense only after the volume's own key is checked. The same word can carry a narrow, period meaning. Write the printed form into research notes before expanding it.
- Criss-cross directory
- An address-first section that lists occupants by street and number instead of starting with a surname. No official Herriman run was verified.
- Householder index
- An alphabetical name section used to locate a head of household or principal entry, often with address and family clues.
- Abbreviation key
- The volume's guide to short marks such as residence, boarding, spouse, or business terms. Find it before reading a symbol.
- Geographic section
- The street-order portion of a directory. It can connect a historic number to nearby entries when the street still exists.
A modern street name may not match the old label. Compare the entry with a historic plat, map, parcel description, or later directory before assigning it to present-day Herriman.
Herriman Resident Names Under Older Labels
Herriman's record geography changed over time. The area was associated with Butterfield and Fort Herriman settlement in the nineteenth century, became an incorporated town in 1999, and later absorbed Rosecrest in 2009 and Olympia effective January 1, 2022. A city directory entry can therefore use Herriman, Butterfield, a rural route, Salt Lake County, Riverton, or another place label without the entry itself explaining the change.
ZIP history adds another check. ZIP 84096 was created July 1, 2006 for part of 6,116 deliveries formerly served under 84065. A pre-2006 address can carry 84065 and still belong to the historical trail of a place now treated as Herriman. Use the printed street, development name, parcel description, and date together. A postal label does not establish city limits.
Search tip. When a Herriman surname does not appear, try the older place label, a nearby Salt Lake County community, the street, and the spouse name before marking the year as absent.
Herriman Resident School Registers
Utah State Archives Series 27951 is more local than the regional city directory shelf. Herriman School attendance registers run from 1893 to 1972, with gaps in 1902–03, 1905–07, 1917–19, 1932–33, and 1967–68. The catalog describes names, addresses, ages, birth details, attendance, grades, performance, teacher comments, and parent or guardian information.
These registers can connect a child to a household and a place at a specific school year. Under-21 records remain private for 100 years under the cited Utah access rule, so a catalog description is not permission to copy protected student data. Use the State Archives record-series description and ask the custodian about an open year.
For a family missing from a city directory, a school year can supply a date window. Compare the address with a deed, tax card, census, or newspaper. Treat the result as a student or parent record, not a full address list.
Herriman Resident Cemetery Records
Herriman City Cemetery has six sections, a plaque honoring nearly 100 pioneer families who arrived from 1851 to 1871, and veteran markers. There is no public online name index in the inspected sources. The city provides a map, regulations, plot and transfer forms, and a burial application through its cemetery office.
The Herriman Cemetery page is useful because the application reaches beyond a name. It asks for the deceased person's full and maiden name, spouse and maiden name, parents, birth and death place and date, age, veteran service, applicant, transfer recipient, plot ID, and funeral director. Those fields can bridge a directory entry to a family group, but the form is an office-use record, not an open resident list.
Use a cemetery clue with the city cemetery records route, a dated obituary, death record, probate file, or newspaper notice. A plot or transfer connection can suggest family, but it does not establish who lived at a modern address.
The cemetery page screenshot shows the local forms route. It helps identify the right custodian when a city directory search needs a dated family endpoint.
Herriman Historical Records Bridge
Salt Lake County Archives supplies the fallback when a city directory search stops. Its online and browsable holdings include births from 1890–1911, deaths from 1847–1949, marriages from 1887–1904, land certificates from 1851–1895, tax cards, deeds, permits, maps, early court material, and newspapers. The series are selective. A date span does not mean every year has a name index or a digitized image.
The Utah State Archives local-record guide helps identify the creating office and record series. County Archives research is appointment-only with annual registration. Staff research costs $25 for up to one hour after the first 15 minutes, whether or not an item is found. Copies, scans, microfilm, and certification have separate stated fees. Send an exact surname, address, and year range before booking.
Newspapers can close a gap with an obituary, marriage announcement, estate notice, school activity, anniversary, or move notice. The County Archives microfilm range is long, but a newspaper mention still needs the correct place label and date. Record the title, date, page, and archive reference.
Selected shelf markers help set expectations for a Herriman city directory search:
- 1867: An early year appears in the Utah collection's displayed date facets.
- 1896–1897: R.L. Polk & Co. examples appear in the researched publisher trail.
- 1919: A Salt Lake City Directory page is digitized with OCR and image context.
- 1935–1942: Several named Polk volumes appear in the inspected evidence.
- 1978: Polk imagery is also present in the digital collection.
- 1980s: The displayed facets reach scattered volumes in this decade, not a verified annual run.
The Utah State Archives local-record guide is the source for the archive route shown here.
The State Archives screenshot points to the local-record guide and name-index path. Use it to distinguish a catalog lead from an available digital image.
Pair Herriman City Directories with Census
A city directory offers year-by-year texture, while a federal census offers a household snapshot. Federal schedules from 1850 through 1950 are released under the 72-year rule, so 1950 is public in 2026 and 1960 remains closed. Census geography may say township, precinct, or county rather than Herriman city.
- Choose the surname, street, or household clue and record the directory volume, page, place label, and exact entry.
- Check the nearest released census year, such as 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, or 1950, and compare names, ages, relationships, and birthplace.
- Search the next available directory year for the same name and address, then note each move or changed household mark.
- Use the geographic section, when available, to compare nearby entries. Do not treat a missing Herriman criss-cross run as proof that no address listing existed.
- Close the trail with an obituary, cemetery record, probate file, school register, or later deed, keeping each source date separate.
A person can disappear because the family moved, a volume skipped the year, a name was indexed differently, or coverage ended. A census match narrows identity, but does not make a directory complete. The historical birth index is a second route for checking a family timeline.
The historical birth-index screenshot shows the archive route after a directory entry is found. The cemetery research guide supplies another dated endpoint.
The cemetery research guide screenshot marks a useful endpoint for a dated household trail. Read it with the local cemetery's own forms and limits. The digitized 1919 page is the source-image check for OCR.
The digitized 1919 page screenshot returns the search to the source image. Compare every OCR result with its printed line before citing a name or address.