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Fort Yates
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city in North Dakota, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- Indian reservation
- Standing Rock Sioux Reservation
- State
- North Dakota
- County
- Sioux
- Total
- 0.062 sq mi (0.16 km )
- Land
- 0.062 sq mi (0.16 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 1,634 ft (498 m)
- Density
- 2,918.0/sq mi (1,126.65/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 38-27860
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Encyclopedic overview
Fort Yates is a city in Sioux County, North Dakota, United States. It is the tribal headquarters of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and county seat of Sioux County. Since 1970 the population has declined markedly from more than 1,100 residents, as people have left for other locations for work. The population was 176 at the 2020 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fort Yates” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.