Hermanville is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Claiborne County, in southwest Mississippi, United States.

[8][9] During the early 1960s, a lumber mill in Hermanville was producing 10,000,000 board feet (24,000 m3) of high-quality southern pine annually.

[10] Author Nevada Barr wrote of Hermanville in 2000: The town, if such a humble scatter of buildings around a crossroads and a single-room post office could be called a town, embodied the Northerner's view of the "real" Mississippi.

The gracious homes of Natchez were not in evidence, nor was the classic architecture...seen in Port Gibson and the city of Clinton.

Trailer houses and shacks sat at odd angles to the two-lane road as if they had fallen haphazardly from a passing cargo plane.