Neilburg (
2016 population: ) is a village in the
Canadian province
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of
Saskatchewan
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within the
Rural Municipality of Hillsdale No. 440 and
Census Division No. 13. A grade Kâ12 school is located in the village that services the Neilburg area as well as grade 7â12 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 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 circle
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s were discovered in a field near the village.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Neilburg had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , 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 change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
See also
*
List of villages in Saskatchewan
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References
Villages in Saskatchewan
Hillsdale No. 440, Saskatchewan
Division No. 13, Saskatchewan
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