Yankton Municipal Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 42.898309, -97.392379
County: Yankton
Record count: 3,532

Ownership: The City of Yankton

Directions: Located in the north part of the city, at the north-west corner of E 25th St and Douglas Ave.

Background: In 1868, the Yankton Cemetery Association was established to develop a cemetery for the Yankton Territory. The first recorded burial was James McBinn in 1876. Prominent figures interred at Yankton include General Custer’s bandleader, several Territorial Governors, State Senators and Congressmen, and the notorious Jack McCall, who was hung for Wild Bill Hickok's murder on March 1, 1877. The Yankton Cemetery Association transferred ownership of the cemetery to the City of Yankton in 1972.

Burial Records

• City of Yankton Cemetery Database, by Interment.net, September 3, 2025, (3,532 records)

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