[5] The village is located within McMillan Township and is the only incorporated community in Luce County.

Newberry is surrounded by state and national forests and is considered the southern gateway to the Tahquamenon Falls area, which the other being Paradise to the northeast.

[6] The village was named in honor of John Stoughton Newberry, a U.S. Representative and industrialist from the state of Michigan.

The Sleeper Lakes Fire took place in August 2007 and burned approximately 29 square miles (75.1 km2) just north of Newberry.

In May 2012, the Duck Lake Fire burned approximately 34 square miles (88.1 km2) of forests near Tahquamenon Falls State Park to the northeast.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.98 square miles (2.54 km2), all of it land.

A humid continental climate (Köppen prefix D and a third letter of a or b) is a climatic region defined by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) winters.

Hispanic or Latinos of any race were 2.8% of the population.As of the census of 2000,[3] there were 1,686 people, 717 households, and 456 families residing in the village.

[14] The village is served by Tahquamenon Area Schools, which contains a single main campus within Newberry.

[16][17] Most of Portage Township to the south in Mackinac County is also served by Tahquamenon Area Schools.