Welcome to Spirit ...

Spirit is located in Price County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Spirit, you might consider that their post office opened in 1880.

Spirit is 1,680 feet [512 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Spirit lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Spirit: 715 & 534<3>

Communities Also Named Spirit ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Spirit - it's located in Washington.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Spirit.

Communities near Spirit ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Spirit.

• Tomahawk
  (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Tomahawk is located in Lincoln County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tomahawk
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,133 people
• Rib Lake
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Rib Lake is located in Taylor County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rib Lake
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 861 people
• Prentice
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Prentice is located in Price County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prentice
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 597 people
• Westboro
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Westboro is located in Taylor County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westboro
• Worcester
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Worcester is located in Price County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Worcester
• Chelsea
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Chelsea is located in Taylor County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea
• Interwald
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Interwald is located in Taylor County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Interwald
• Jersey City
  (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Jersey City is located in Lincoln County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jersey City
• Catawba
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Catawba is located in Price County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catawba
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
• Phillips
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Phillips is located in Price County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillips
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,320 people

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Spirit. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Spirit.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Spirit. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Spirit.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Spirit. See our Newspapers Page for Spirit.

Adding Spirit to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Spirit in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Spirit was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Spirit post office opened in 1880. The Spirit post office closed in 1939.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Spirit.