Yorkshire is an unincorporated community in Harrison County, in the U.S. state of Iowa.

[1] Yorkshire was founded with the arrival of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad.

Yorkshire was platted in June 1872 by the railroad company and a store was built soon thereafter.

[3] The Yorkshire Post Office opened on November 3, 1885,[4] and a number of businesses soon followed.

[7] On June 3, 1925, a pair of tornadoes, estimated at F4 (possibly F5) intensity on the Fujita scale, struck Yorkshire and nearby Persia.