The community is 48 km east of the city of Swift Current, and 197 km west of Regina, the provincial capital, on the Trans-Canada Highway.

It is the hometown of CBC Sports broadcaster Don Wittman.

[4] The Klassen Museum (c. 1916) was a Municipal Heritage Property on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.

[5] Herbert School offers kindergarten to grade 12 and is in the Chinook School Division 211 Herbert has a skating rink and a curling rink, a swimming pool, a number of ball diamonds, and a gym within the school.

[6] Herbert also has a Highway Inn Restaurant, CO-OP store, a pharmacy, a hospital/nursing home, a senior home, a public library, thrift store, a car wash, and a post office.