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Yankton is a city in and the county seat of Yankton County, South Dakota, 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, [8] and it is the principal city of the Yankton Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the entirety of Yankton County and which had an estimated population of 23,297 as of ...
Theodore Robert Blakey was born in Yankton, South Dakota, on August 31, 1925. His parents were Henry Blakey and Mary Fristoe, and Ted had ten older siblings. [1] His parents had migrated from Missouri to South Dakota in 1905. [3] He attended Grove Elementary School and earned his general education diploma in 1967. [1]
Location of Yankton County in South Dakota. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Yankton County, South Dakota.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Yankton County, South Dakota, United States.
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 ...
Yankton businessman and community leader Ted Blakey was appointed the head of the Emancipation Proclamation Committee, [35] which oversaw the passage of the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibited poll taxes, in South Dakota. These efforts were supported by the state NAACP and passed on 23 January 1964.
Pierre was named after his father, Pierre Dorion Sr. and had a Yankton Sioux mother. He remained among the Yankton peoples for much of his early life. Dorion met members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition on 29 August 1804. [2] At the time he was engaged in mercantile transactions with some of the 70 Yankton present by the explorer's camp.
The Ohlman-Shannon House is a historic house in Yankton, South Dakota.It was built in 1871 for Charles Mclntyre, who sold it to Martin P. Ohlman, Sr. in 1878. [2] Ohlman was a real estate investor who served as the president of the American National Bank and as a director and treasurer of the Yankton Bridge and Ferry Company. [2]
Gavins Point Dam is a 1.9-mile-long (3 km) embankment rolled-earth and chalk-fill dam which spans the Missouri River and impounds Lewis and Clark Lake.The dam joins Cedar County, Nebraska with Yankton County, South Dakota a distance of 811.1 river miles (1,305 km) upstream of St. Louis, Missouri, where the river joins the Mississippi River.