Fort Yates is a city in Sioux County, North Dakota, United States.

[3] A primarily Native American settlement developed here after a US Army post at this site was established in 1863 as the Standing Rock Cantonment, intended for the US Army garrison to oversee the Hunkpapa and Blackfeet bands, and the Inhunktonwan and Cuthead of the Upper Yanktonai, of the Lakota Oyate.

In 1878 the US Army renamed the fort to honor Captain George Yates, who was killed by the Lakota Oyate at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876.

During the bungled event the chief was shot and killed at dawn in his log cabin by agency non-Hunkpapa Dakota police.

In 1953, his family authorized his remains to be exhumed and transferred to a gravesite overlooking the Missouri River near his birthplace at Mobridge, South Dakota.

A monument dedicated to Sitting Bull was installed at his burial site at Fort Yates.

Another monument, with his bust on a pedestal, overlooks the Missouri River at the Mobridge burial site.

This city has become the tribal headquarters of the federally recognized Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose reservation encompasses it.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the hamlet has a total area of 0.06 square miles (0.16 km2), all land.

[7] Fort Yates has a semiarid climate (Köppen BSk), with hot summers, cold and very dry winters (though sometimes moderated by chinook winds) and substantial diurnal temperature ranges.

At the same time that Fort Yates is around different climatic types and subtypes in a situation rare and unusual.