Yankton County
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county in South Dakota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- South Dakota
- Founded
- April 10, 1862
- Named after
- Yankton Sioux
- Seat
- Yankton
- Largest city
- Yankton
- Total
- 532 sq mi (1,380 km )
- Land
- 521 sq mi (1,350 km )
- Water
- 11 sq mi (28 km ) 2.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 23,635
- Density
- 45.4/sq mi (17.5/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- At-large
- Website
- www .co .yankton .sd .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Yankton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- South Dakota
- Contains
- Yankton
- Capital
- Yankton
- Population
- 23310
- Area
- 532
- Shares border with
- Turner County
- Official website
- www.co.yankton.sd.us
- Image
- Scottish Rite Masonic Center (Yankton SD) from E 1.JPG
- Households
- 9558
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- Template:Yankton County, South Dakota
- Commons category
- Yankton County, South Dakota
- topic's main category
- Category:Yankton County, South Dakota
- water as percent of area
- 2.1
- native label
- Yankton County
- inception
- 1862-00-00
- per capita income
- 32804
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Yankton County, South Dakota
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Encyclopedic overview
Missouri River in winter downstream from Yankton, with Nebraska below and South Dakota above. This stretch of the river is part of the 59-mile reach of the Missouri National Recreational River.
Yankton County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,310, making it the 9th most populous county in South Dakota. Its county seat is Yankton. Yankton County comprises the Yankton, SD Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yankton County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.