Spiritwood is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in eastern Stutsman County,

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, United States. An

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

, it was designated as part of the

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's Participant Statistical Areas Program on March 31, 2010. It was not counted separately during the 2000 census, but was included in the 2010 census, where a population of 18 was reported. It lies east of the city of Jamestown, the

county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...

of Stutsman County. Although it is

, it has a

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

, with the ZIP code 58481.

Demographics

Spiritwood Industrial Park

In 2007, ground was broken on a coal-fired

cogeneration Cogeneration or combined heat and power (CHP) is the use of a heat engine or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time. Cogeneration is a more efficient use of fuel or heat, because otherwise- wasted heat from elec ...

power plant, built by

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i
Spiritwood Industrial Park.
The industrial park, planned and funded the year before, was built coincidental to expansion of the nearb
Cargill Malt
plant and construction of the power/steam plant was predicated on a co-located ethanol plant. After construction was completed in 2011, 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. 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. The ethanol plant began production in June 2015, and produced 65 million gallons of ethanol in its first year.

References

Census-designated places in Stutsman County, North Dakota Census-designated places in North Dakota Unincorporated communities in North Dakota Unincorporated communities in Stutsman County, North Dakota {{NorthDakota-geo-stub