Neilburg

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Neilburg (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Hillsdale No. 440 and Census Division No. 13. A grade K–12 school is located in the village that services the Neilburg area as well as grade 7–12 students from Marsden. Neilburg was named after an early settler, Clifford O'Neil. The first post office was in his home and was located about one mile south-east of where the village is today. Neilburg was established as a hamlet in 1923 and by 1946, it had grown big enough to be incorporated as the village of Neilburg. The village is about 6 km away from the north-east corner of Manitou Lake. On the north-west corner of the lake is Big Manitou Regional Park.

History

Neilburg incorporated as a village on January 1, 1947. In 1999, crop circles were discovered in a field near the village.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Neilburg had a population of 371 living in 160 of its 192 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 379. With a land area of 1.24 km2, it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Neilburg recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a NaN% change from its 2011 population of. With a land area of 1.22 km2, it had a population density of in 2016.

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