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Herkimer County Jail
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Photo by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Herkimer County Jail is a county jail located in Herkimer County, New York. Reported population: 31. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Herkimer County Jail, also known as the 1834 Jail, is a historic jail in Herkimer, Herkimer County, New York. It is a two-story structure with high basement, five bays wide, of ashlar limestone blocks with dressed quoins built in 1835. It features a gable roof with oval window and narrow cornice and a Federal style entrance. Tours are regularly given by the Herkimer County Historical Society and a museum display highlights the cases of Chester Gillette (the "American Tragedy") and Roxalana Druse. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
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Current population
31
Occupancy
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Year opened
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
New York
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Related facilities
Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
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- Franklin County Detention FacilitySt. AlbansMaximumCounty jail660% occupancy
Data completeness
56%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5739254)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
Under CC-BY-4.0. Include the URL and access date; the site is a living reference and entries can change.
World Prisons. (2026). Herkimer County Jail. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/herkimer-county-jail
"Herkimer County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/herkimer-county-jail.
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