# Mount Herman

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/mount-herman/

- Kind: Landmark rocks, buttes and mountains
- Status: Living today
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0817, -104.9264 (USGS GNIS point for the feature itself (a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

'The large mountain west of Monument over-shadowing Monument Lake,' named for Herman Schwanbeck, a German pioneer who homesteaded just east of town (Lavelett, S-0011, p. 7). The Mt. Herman Planting Station of 1907, the start of the Monument Nursery, took its name. A fringe place, just outside the Divide outline.

## Where it was

USGS GNIS summit 'Mount Herman', El Paso County (2021 Colorado file, S-0007). Good to a few hundred feet.

## Sources

- S-0006: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0006
- S-0007: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0007
- S-0011: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0011

## Nearby

- [Monument Nursery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-nursery/): 1.2 mi east
- [Monument Rock](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-rock/): 1.3 mi east
- [Glen Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-park/): 2.3 mi north
- [Pine Crest](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pine-crest/): 2.3 mi northeast
- [Rocky Mountain Chautauqua grounds](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rocky-mountain-chautauqua-grounds/): 2.4 mi north
- [Thompson schoolhouse (1888)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/thompson-schoolhouse-1888/): 2.6 mi north

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.