| Spiritwood | |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place & Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | USA North Dakota#USA |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the state of North Dakota |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | North Dakota |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Stutsman |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 2.27 |
| Area Land Km2: | 2.27 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.88 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.88 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 29 |
| Population Density Km2: | 12.79 |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation Ft: | 1480 |
| Coordinates: | 46.9342°N -98.4933°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
| Postal Code: | 58481 |
| Area Code: | 701 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 38-74660 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 2584357 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 33.11 |
Spiritwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in eastern Stutsman County, North Dakota, United States. An unincorporated community, it was designated as part of the U.S. Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program on March 31, 2010. It was not counted separately during the 2000 census,[2] but was included in the 2010 census,[3] where a population of 18 was reported.
It lies east of the city of Jamestown, the county seat of Stutsman County. Although it is unincorporated community, it has a post office, with the ZIP code 58481.[4]
In 2007, ground was broken on a coal-fired cogeneration power plant, built by Great River Energy in Spiritwood Industrial Park. The industrial park, planned and funded the year before,[5] was built coincidental to expansion of the nearby Cargill Malt plant and construction of the power/steam plant was predicated on a co-located ethanol plant. After construction was completed in 2011,[6] the power plant was idled due to the recession, and need for a second steam partner (Cargill Malt being the first), after plans for the original ethanol plant fell through. In 2013, Great River Energy began construction on its own co-located ethanol plant, which would utilize the extra steam capacity of the power plant.[7] The economic upturn and the promise of a second end-user for waste steam prompted the power plant to begin commercial operations in 2012. Construction of the ethanol plant was finished in July 2015. The construction of the ethanol plant was financed, in part, with a $75,000,000 EB-5 investment, managed by CMB Regional Centers.[8] [9] The ethanol plant began production in June 2015, and produced 65 million gallons of ethanol in its first year.[10]