YANKTON  , a

city and the county-seat of Yankton county, South Dakota, U.S.A., on the left bank of the Missouri river, about 6o m . N.W. of Sioux City, Iowa . Pop . (1900) 4125 (85o foreign-born); (1910) 3787 . It is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, the Great Northern, and the Chicago & North-Western railways . The Missouri is navigable at this, point, and the city has a considerable river traffic . Yankton is the seat of Yankton College (founded by Congregationalists in 1881, opened in 1882; now non-sectarian) . The city is built on a nearly level plateau, averaging about 1200 ft. above the sea-level . It is in a rich grain-growing and stock-raising district, has grain-elevators, and manufactures flour, beer and cement . The water supply is obtained from artesian wells . The first permanent settlement, a trading post, was made here in 1858, when a treaty was concluded with the Yankton Indians . This was the first settlement made in the Missouri Valley in Dakota .

Yankton was laid out in 1859, first chartered as a city in x869, rechartered in 1873, and in 1910 adopted a

commission form of government . In 1861—82 Yankton was the capital of the Territory of Dakota .