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Yankton, SD - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Yankton  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Yankton Home page. The Yankton Home page provides as much information as possible on Yankton. Knowing Yankton’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Yankton’s Home page, you will also find Yankton’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Yankton has a population of 14619. 50% of Yankton’s inhabitants are Male, and 50 are female. 48.4% of Yankton is married and 64.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $154,164, and the average rent is $630. Household median income in Yankton is $54,278, and the individual median income is $31,792. Yankton’s Ethnic is the following: White(88.5%), Hispanic(4.9%), Multiple(4.7%), Native(3.9%), Black(2%), Other(0.7%), Asian(0.2%).


Yankton is a city in and the county seat of Yankton County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 15,411 at the 2020 census, and it is the principal city of the Yankton Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the entirety of Yankton County and which had an estimated population of 23,297 as of July 1, 2021.


As the first capital of Dakota Territory, it was named after the Yankton tribe of Western Dakota people; Yankton is derived from the Dakota word I-hank-ton-wan ("the end village").Yankton is located on the Missouri River just downstream of the Gavins Point Dam and Lewis and Clark Lake, and just upstream of the confluence with the James River.


The United States National Park Service's headquarters for the Missouri National Recreational River are located in the city. The Human Services Center was established as a psychiatric hospital in 1882 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Yankton is commonly referred to as the "River City", due to its proximity to the Missouri River and the importance the river played in the city's settlement and development.


Yankton has also earned the nickname "Mother City of the Dakotas", due to the early important role it played in the creation and development of the Dakota Territory, which later became the 39th and 40th U.S. states of North and South Dakota.Owing to the early exploitation of Fort Hays Limestone for cement manufacture, including shipment of cement to the construction of the Panama Canal, Yankton once also had the nickname "Cement City".


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