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Newberg is a city in Yamhill County, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area and home to George Fox University, and it is the second most populous city in the county.

The 2020 census counted 25,138 residents in Newberg, with 9,005 households.

The community was known early on as Chehalem and later as Roger's Landing for Joseph Rogers, who settled near the Willamette River at what is now Newberg in 1848, and it was platted in 1883 and incorporated in 1889.

Tradition states that the town was named by its first postmaster, Sebastian Brutscher, for his former hometown of Neuberg in Germany, and Brutscher Street in Newberg is named after him.

Newberg was one of the first communities in Oregon to hold Quaker services, and Friends Pacific Academy, founded by the Quakers in 1885, was renamed Pacific College in 1891 and then George Fox University in 1949.

Herbert Hoover moved to Newberg in 1885 to live with his uncle and aunt after the death of his parents and was one of the first students to attend his uncle's Pacific Academy, and the home has been turned into the Hoover-Minthorn House museum.

The town was dry, meaning no alcohol could be sold within the city limits, for a good part of its early history.

Newberg's oldest surviving newspaper, The Newberg Graphic, was established on December 1, 1888.

Newberg is located on Oregon Route 99W approximately 25 miles southwest of Portland, and Springbrook, once a separate community, is now considered part of Newberg.

Newberg uses ZIP code 97132 and its motto is A Great Place to Grow.