[1] It is located approximately 26 miles (42 km) northwest of Beaumont and adjacent to the Big Thicket National Preserve.

[3] In the 1880s a man named P. S. Watts wanted to profit from the spring using the unique "medicinal" properties of the water (a popular trend at the time).

In 1904 an extension of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway was built from Saratoga to Bragg Station.

Although the Saratoga trunk line running north from the town was dismantled in 1934, new oil wells have been drilled as recently as the early 1990s.

[citation needed] Saratoga is served by the West Hardin County Consolidated Independent School District.