Yank'ton, S. D., the county-seat of Yankton co., 62 mi. s. w. of Sioux Falls, on the Missouri River and on the Great Northern, the Chicago & Northwestern and the Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul railroads. The city is the commercial center of a large agricultural and stock-raising district, and it has cement works, flour mills, grain elevators, brickyards, breweries, packing houses, woolen mills, stockyards and other establishments. It contains Yankton College, Saint Joseph Academy and public and parish schools. The South Dakota Hospital for the Insane is located here, and the Sisters of Saint Benedict have a hospital. There are eight churches and four banks, and the waterworks are owned and operated by the city. The place was settled in 1862, and the city was chartered in 1883. Until 1883 it was the capital of the territory of Dakota. Population in 1910, about 5000.