# Sac River

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The **Sac River (pronounced sock)** is a [river](/source/River) in the [Ozarks](/source/Ozarks) of Southwest [Missouri](/source/Missouri), United States.

## Description

The river is 118 miles (190 km) long,[3] with [headwaters](/source/Source_(river_or_stream)) in western [Greene County](/source/Greene_County,_Missouri). The stream passes through the northeast corner of [Lawrence County](/source/Lawrence_County,_Missouri) then re-enters Greene County. The stream enters [Dade County](/source/Dade_County,_Missouri) northwest of [Ash Grove](/source/Ash_Grove,_Missouri). The stream enters [Stockton Lake](/source/Stockton_Lake) in Dade County between [Dadeville](/source/Dadeville,_Missouri) and [Greenfield](/source/Greenfield,_Missouri), then flows north exiting Stockton Lake in [Cedar County](/source/Cedar_County,_Missouri). The stream [meanders](/source/Meander) north into [St. Clair County](/source/St._Clair_County,_Missouri), passes under [US Route 54](/source/US_Route_54) and enters the [Osage River](/source/Osage_River) in [Truman Reservoir](/source/Harry_S._Truman_Reservoir) southeast of [Osceola](/source/Osceola,_Missouri).[4]

Large portions of the Sac River and the [Little Sac River](/source/Little_Sac_River) are inundated by [Stockton Lake](/source/Stockton_Lake).

The river was named after the [Sac Indians](/source/Sac_Indians).[5] The [Big Eddy Site](/source/Big_Eddy_Site), an [archaeological](/source/Archaeology) [dig](/source/Excavation_(archaeology)), is along the Sac River within Cedar County. Eleven feet of river [sediment](/source/Sediment) at the site provides a [stratigraphy](/source/Stratification_(archeology)) that suggests more than 10,000 years of nearly constant occupation by [American Indians](/source/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States), potentially pre-dating the [Clovis culture](/source/Clovis_culture) and contributing to the knowledge of the [Dalton](/source/Dalton_culture) and [San Patrice](/source/San_Patrice_culture) cultures.

## See also

- [List of rivers of Missouri](/source/List_of_rivers_of_Missouri)

## References

1. ["Water-Data Report 2013 - 06919900 Sac River near Caplinger Mills, MO"](https://wdr.water.usgs.gov/wy2013/pdfs/06919900.2013.pdf). U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 2015-12-03.

1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [The National Map](http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/), accessed May 31, 2011

1. *Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer*, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 43 and 51-52, ISBN 0-89933-224-2

1. ["Dade County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)"](http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_dade.html). The State Historical Society of Missouri. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071545/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_dade.html) 24 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 25 September 2016.

## External links

- [The Big Eddy Site](https://web.archive.org/web/20060831073437/http://www.missouristate.edu/car/7707.htm), from the [Center for Archeological Research](http://www.missouristate.edu/car) at [Missouri State University](/source/Missouri_State_University)

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