The community was named after Offenburg, a German city between the Black Forest and the river Rhine, the place where its early settlers originated from.

German-speaking descendants of the immigrants at that time live in New Offenburg to this day and speak a dialect of Baden in addition to American English.

[4] The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally cool winters.

[6] In 2013, the German documentary filmmaker Johannes Suhm shot the Documentation "New Offenburg - The Last Badeners in the USA" about the residents of the settlement.

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