Neilburg takes its name from an early settler, Clifford O'Neil. The first post office was in his home, about one mile south-east of where the village stands today.
The community was established as a hamlet in 1923. It grew steadily, and by 1946 it was big enough to become a village. It was incorporated as the village of Neilburg on 1 January 1947.
Neilburg sits about 6 kilometres from the north-east corner of Manitou Lake, with Big Manitou Regional Park on the lake's north-west corner. The village has a K–12 school that serves the Neilburg area as well as Grade 7–12 students from Marsden. In 1999, crop circles were discovered in a field near the village.
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