Yorketown is a town and a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the southern Yorke Peninsula about 91 kilometres (57 mi) west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of the municipal seat of Maitland.

[1][5] Yorketown began as a private sub-division in section 85 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Melville in 1872.

[1] It is located in the local government area of Yorke Peninsula Council, the state electoral district of Narungga and the federal Division of Grey.

The Southern Yorke's Peninsula Pioneer was first published in Yorketown on 21 January 1898, and sold at a discounted price due to its late appearance.

[11] In Issue 10, on 25 March that year, the newspaper adopted a simpler title, The Pioneer, later becoming part of the Yorke Peninsula Country Times from June 1970.