Sac River
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| Sac River | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | Missouri |
| Tributaries | |
| - right | Little Sac River |
| Source | |
| - location | Greene County, Missouri |
| - elevation | 1,240 ft (378 m) |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Mouth | Truman Reservoir |
| - location | Osceola, Missouri |
| - elevation | 709 ft (216 m) |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [1] |
| Length | 118 mi (190 km) |
| Basin | 1,981 sq mi (5,131 km2) |
| Discharge | for USGS 06919900 near Caplinger Mills, MO[2] |
| - average | 1,670 cu ft/s (47 m3/s) |
| - max | 51,200 cu ft/s (1,450 m3/s) |
| - min | 34 cu ft/s (1 m3/s) |
| Watersheds | Sac-Osage-Missouri-Mississippi |
| Reservoirs | Stockton Lake, Truman Reservoir |
 Map of the Osage River watershed showing the Sac River
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The Sac River is a river in Southwest Missouri. It is 118 miles (190 km) long,[3] with headwaters in Lawrence and Greene counties; the headwaters join near Greenfield, then flow north through the Ozarks, to the Osage River, ending just above Osceola in Truman Reservoir.
Large portions of the Sac River and the Little Sac River are inundated by Stockton Lake.
The Big Eddy Site, an archaeological 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 and San Patrice cultures.
References
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 31, 2011
