The New International Encyclopædia/Yankton

YANK′TON. The county-seat of Yankton County, S. D., 61 miles northwest of Sioux City, Iowa, on the Missouri River, and on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul, the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Great Northern railroads (Map: South Dakota, H 7). It is the seat of Yankton College (Congregational), opened in 1882, and of the South Dakota Hospital for the Insane. The city derives considerable commercial importance from its situation in an extensive farming and stock-raising section, and is known for its large cement works and flouring mills. There are also grain elevators, brick yards, and breweries. Under the revised charter of 1885, the government is vested in a mayor, chosen annually, and a unicameral council. The water-works are owned and operated by the municipality. Yankton was settled in 1862 and received a city charter in 1883. It was the capital of the Territory of Dakota until 1883. Population, in 1890, 3670; in 1900, 4125.