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The Sac River (pronounced sock) is a river in the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri. It is long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 31, 2011 with headwaters in western Greene County. The stream passes through the northeast corner of Lawrence County then re-enters Greene County. The stream enters Dade County northwest of Ash Grove. The stream enters Stockton Lake in Dade County between Dadeville and Greenfield, then flows north exiting Stockton Lake in Cedar County. The stream north into St. Clair County, passes under US Route 54 and enters the Osage River in Truman Reservoir southeast of Osceola. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 43 and 51-52,
Large portions of the Sac River and the Little Sac River are inundated by Stockton Lake.
The river was named after the Sac Indians. The Big Eddy Site, an archaeology dig, is along the Sac River within Cedar County. Eleven feet of river sediment at the site provides a stratigraphy that suggests more than 10,000 years of nearly constant occupation by American Indians, potentially pre-dating the Clovis culture and contributing to the knowledge of the Dalton culture and San Patrice cultures.
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