Sager Creek is a 13.4-mile-long (21.6 km)[1] creek which runs through downtown Siloam Springs, Arkansas, in the United States. It is a tributary of Flint Creek, which flows to the Illinois River, which in turn flows to the Arkansas River and thus is part of the Mississippi River watershed. Sager Creek is named after the man largely thought to be the founder of Siloam Springs, Simon Sager.
Simon Sager was the eldest member of the Sager children. The Sager family was a family of farmers from Tennessee that migrated into the Arkansas Territory. They crossed the delta into the Ozark Mountains. It is uncertain as to whether the parents contracted illness and died along the way or if they were killed by Osage Indians. Simon, the eldest of the children, continued on the journey westward guiding his siblings. Much of the trek was made on raft along the White River and its tributaries and across land. Eventually the clan made its way towards the plains and rafted the then-uncharted Osage Creek into a tributary that was eventually named after its first white explorer, Simon Sager. The children stopped along the creek and built a cabin and farmed the area near the town of Hico that eventually became the town of Siloam Springs, named after the healing pool of water in the Bible.
Siloam Springs was a health resort in the early 1900s with a number of healing waters; Downtown Springs, Indian Healing Springs and a few others. The present-day town is reminiscent of its Victorian heritage. The original Sager Cabin is on the grounds of John Brown University in Siloam Springs. The Sager children were first in a line of German and Scotch-Irish settlers to migrate into the Arkansas Territory from Tennessee.