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Yankton is a city in, and the county seat of,
Yankton County, South Dakota, United States.
Founded: 1869
Area: Approximately 8.00 sq. mi.
Elevation: 1,211’
Population: 14,566 (2016)
Zip code: 57078
Area code: 605
Number of airports: 1
Yankton is the principal city of the Yankton
Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the
entirety of Yankton County, and which had an
estimated population of 22,702 as of July 1, 2015.
Yankton was the first capital of Dakota Territory.
It is named for the Yankton tribe of Nakota (Sioux)
Native Americans; Yankton is derived from the Nakota
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 that 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, respectively.