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City of Yankton

Yankton

Yankton is a city in and the county seat of , United States. It became a city in 1889. The population was 15,411 at the 2020 census, making it the 7th most populous city in South Dakota, and it is the principal city of the Yankton…
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  • Type: City with 13,800 residents
  • Description: county seat of Yankton County, South Dakota, United States
  • Also known as: “Yankton, SD” and “Yankton, South Dakota”
  • Postal code: 57078

Places of Interest

Highlights include Federal Prison Camp, Yankton and Discovery Bridge.

Prison
Photo: Ammodramus, Public domain.
The is a minimum-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Yankton, South Dakota. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.

Bridge
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The is a bridge that carries US Route 81 across the from the border to the border. The connects Yankton, South Dakota, with rural .

Bridge
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The is a bridge that formerly carried U.S. Route 81 across the between and . The connects Yankton, South Dakota with rural .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Yankton and Green Island.

Hamlet
is a populated place in , , United States, located just south of Yankton, South Dakota, on U.S. Route 81. is located four miles west of on Nebraska Highway 121.

Locality
, 10.5 square miles of land in northwestern bordering the across from Yankton, SD, was home to Strahmburg a former town on the island.

Yankton

Latitude
42.8713° or 42° 52′ 17″ north
Longitude
-97.3967° or 97° 23′ 48″ west
Population
13,800
Elevation
1,207 feet (368 metres)
IATA airport code
YKN
Open location code
86J4VJC3+G8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151420494
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5233053
Wiki­data ID
Q989288
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Yankton” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ينكتون”
  • Asturian: “Yankton”
  • Basque: “Yankton”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াংটন”
  • Catalan: “City of Yankton”
  • Catalan: “Yankton”
  • Cebuano: “Yankton”
  • Chechen: “Янктон”
  • Chinese: “Yankton, South Dakota”
  • Chinese: “Yankton”
  • Chinese: “扬克顿”
  • Chinese: “揚克頓”
  • Czech: “Yankton”
  • Dagbani: “Yankton”
  • Danish: “Yankton”
  • Dutch: “Yankton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ينكتون”
  • Finnish: “Yankton”
  • French: “Yankton”
  • Galician: “Yankton”
  • German: “Yankton”
  • Gilaki: “یانکتن (نسايي داکؤتا)”
  • Gilaki: “یانکتن”
  • Greek: “Γιάνκτον”
  • Gujarati: “યાન્કટોન”
  • Haitian: “Yankton, Dakota disid”
  • Haitian: “Yankton”
  • Hebrew: “ינקטון”
  • Hindi: “यॅङ्कटन, दक्षिण डकोटा”
  • Hindi: “यॅङ्कटन”
  • Hungarian: “Yankton”
  • Indonesian: “Yankton”
  • Irish: “Yankton”
  • Italian: “Yankton”
  • Japanese: “ヤンクトン”
  • Kannada: “ಯಾಂಕನ್”
  • Korean: “양크턴”
  • Ladin: “Yankton”
  • Latvian: “Janktona”
  • Lithuanian: “Janktonas”
  • Malagasy: “Yankton, South Dakota”
  • Malagasy: “Yankton”
  • Malay: “Yankton”
  • Marathi: “यँक्टन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yankton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yankton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yankton”
  • Norwegian: “Yankton”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yankton”
  • Persian: “ینکتون، داکوتای جنوبی”
  • Persian: “ینکتون”
  • Polish: “Yankton”
  • Portuguese: “Yankton”
  • Russian: “Янктон”
  • Serbian: “Јанктон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yankton, South Dakota”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yankton”
  • Sinhala: “යෑන්ක්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Yankton”
  • Slovenian: “Yankton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ینکتون، گونئی داکوتا”
  • Spanish: “Yankton (Dakota del Sur)”
  • Spanish: “Yankton”
  • Swedish: “Yankton”
  • Tamil: “யங்க்டோன்”
  • Tatar: “Янктон”
  • Telugu: “యాన్క్ టన్”
  • Thai: “แยงก์ตัน”
  • Turkish: “Yankton, Güney Dakota”
  • Turkish: “Yankton”
  • Ukrainian: “Янктон”
  • Urdu: “یانکٹن، جنوبی ڈکوٹا”
  • Urdu: “یانکٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Yankton”
  • Vietnamese: “Yankton”
  • Volapük: “Yankton, South Dakota”
  • Volapük: “Yankton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yankton, South Dakota”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yankton”
  • Welsh: “Yankton, De Dakota”
  • Welsh: “Yankton”

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