Spiritwood North Dakota Map

About Spiritwood, North Dakota

Spiritwood is a locality in Stutsman County, North Dakota, United States. It is a small community with a population of 29. The population density is 12.8 people per km². Spiritwood is located at 46.9361°N, 98.4956°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 58481.

Spiritwood claims a position upon the vast, unyielding reach of the high prairie, where the horizon stretches into a thin, pale line of perpetual distance. It lies 10.2 miles east of Jamestown, ND (from Jamestown, ND: bearing 80°T), and is situated 23.3 miles west of Valley City. The land here is defined by a rigorous, horizontal geometry, broken only by the sudden, low-slung undulations of the earth that lead toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Grasshopper Hills. To the north, the terrain softens into the subtle depressions of the landscape, where the Stutsman County Waterfowl Production Area provides a sanctuary for migratory wings that cut through the immense, heavy sky. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar, searching quality, bleaching the tall grasses to a brittle gold and casting long, indigo shadows that seem to swallow the very ground as evening approaches. Moisture gathers in the quiet, tucked-away corners of the terrain, feeding the nearby Nine Lake and lending a cool, damp scent to the air that persists even when the wind turns dry.

Spiritwood operates as a solitary outpost of industry and endurance, its lifeblood inextricably bound to the cycles of the soil and the iron pulse of the nearby railway. The history of Spiritwood remains etched into the spare, functional architecture of its grain elevators, which stand as sentinels over a local economy rooted in the cultivation of wheat and the patient stewardship of the fields. Beyond the immediate grid of the streets, the James River carves a slow, deliberate path through the earth, while the subtle indentation of Sevenmile Coulee offers a break in the otherwise relentless expanse of the plains. Life here moves with the deliberate, measured pace of a season, indifferent to the clamor of the wider world, favoring instead the quiet, hard-won stability of a place that has learned to thrive in the shadow of an enormous, empty heaven.

About This Spiritwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Spiritwood, North Dakota. Coordinates: 46.936099, -98.495648. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Spiritwood includes the ZIP code (58481), telephone area code (701), county seat of Stutsman County (Jamestown), and school district assignment (Barnes County North Public School District 7).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.