sentences:  The community is located on the western edge of the growing Northwest Arkansas metropolitan area and has had a population increase of 47% to 15,039 between the 2000 and 2010 censuses.In 2012, the city was named one of the 20 best small towns in America by "Smithsonian" magazine
  
  Osage Indians were the known first inhabitants of the area.Siloam Springs' first white settlers were of German and Scots-Irish origin.