Newberg is a city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. Located in the Portland metropolitan area, the city is house to George Fox University. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 25,138 making it the second most populous city in the county.

Ewing Young, after leading pioneering fur brigades in California, came to Portland in 1834 and settled on the west bank of the Willamette River near the mouth of Chehalem Creek, opposite of Champoeg. Young’s house is believed to be the first house built by European-Americans on that side of the river. Later, Joseph Rogers settled close the Willamette River at what is now Newberg in 1848. The community was known early on as Chehalem, and unconventional as Roger’s Landing for Rogers who founded the settlement, and who died in 1855. In 1883, the community was platted. Incorporated in 1889, a community tradition states that this town was named by its first postmaster, Sebastian Brutscher, for his former hometown of Neuberg in Germany One of the current streets, Brutscher Street, is named after Brutscher.

Newberg was one of the first communities in Oregon to preserve Quaker services. It was incorporated as a city in 1889. The city’s oldest remaining newspaper, The Newberg Graphic, was standard Dec. 1, 1888. Friends Pacific Academy, renamed Pacific College in 1891 and next George Fox University in 1949, was founded by the Quakers in 1885. George Fox University is classified by U.S. News & World Report as a first-tier regional academe and “Best Value” school. The campus resides in the middle of the city, surrounded by university-owned housing.

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