List of rivers of Washington (state)
Appearance
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Washington.
By drainage basin
[edit]This list is arranged by drainage basin. Respective tributaries are indented under each larger stream's name and are ordered downstream to upstream.
Whidbey Basin
[edit]Central Basin
[edit]- Boeing Creek
- Pipers Creek
- Lake Washington Ship Canal/Lake Washington
- Duwamish River
- Longfellow Creek
- Black River (historical)
- Cedar River (historical)
- Green River
- White River (historical)
- Soos Creek
- Fauntleroy Creek
- Hylebos Creek
- Wapato Creek
- Puyallup River
- Puget Creek
South Basin
[edit]- Chambers Creek
- Sequalitchew Creek
- Nisqually River
- Yelm Creek
- Ohop Creek
- Mashel River
- Little Nisqually River
- Kautz Creek
- Paradise River
- Van Trump Creek
- Indian Creek
- Deschutes River
- Kennedy Creek
- Sherwood Creek
- Union River
- Tahuya River
- Skokomish River
- Dewatto River
- Hamma Hamma River
- Duckabush River
- Dosewallips River
- Big Quilcene River
- Little Quilcene River
- Dungeness River
- Elwha River
- Indian Creek
- Little River
- Lillian River
- Lost River
- Goldie River
- Hayes River
- Lyre River
- East Twin River
- West Twin River
- Pysht River
- Clallam River
- Hoko River
- Sekiu River
- Sail River
- Waatch River
- Sooes River
- Ozette River
- Quillayute River
- Dickey River
- Sol Duc River
- Bogachiel River
- Calawah River
- North Fork Calawah River
- Sitkum River
- Calawah River
- Goodman Creek
- Hoh River
- Queets River
- Raft River
- Quinault River
- Moclips River
- Copalis River
- Cedar River
- North River
- Willapa River
- Bone River
- Niawiakum River
- Palix River
- Canon River
- North Nemah River
- South Nemah River
- Middle Nemah River
- Naselle River
- Bear River
Columbia River
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Lower Columbia Basin
[edit]- Wallacut River
- Chinook River
- Deep River
- Grays River
- Skamokawa Creek
- Elochoman River
- Abernethy Creek
- Germany Creek
- Coal Creek
- Cowlitz River
- Kalama River
- Lewis River
- East Fork Lewis River
- Cedar Creek
- Canyon Creek
- Siouxon Creek
- Pine Creek
- Muddy River
- Clear Creek
- Clearwater Creek
- Clear Creek
- Quartz Creek
- Gee Creek
- Lake River
- Washougal River
- Lacamas Creek
- Little Washougal River
- West Fork Washougal River
- Rock Creek
- Wind River
- Panther Creek
- Trout Creek
- Falls Creek
- Little White Salmon River
- White Salmon River
- Rattlesnake Creek
- Trout Lake Creek
- Buck Creek
- Cascade Creek
- Dry Creek
- Gilmer Creek
- Hangman Creek
- Mill Creek
- Klickitat River
- Swale Creek
- Little Klickitat River
- Bowman Creek
- Mill Creek
- Butler Creek
- Summit Creek
- White Creek
- Brush Creek
- Outlet Creek
- Trout Creek
- Big Muddy Creek
- Surveyors Creek
- West Fork
- Diamond Fork
- Rock Creek
Walla Walla and Snake River Basins
[edit]- Walla Walla River
- Touchet River
- Patit Creek
- South Fork Touchet River
- North Fork Touchet River
- Wolf Fork
- Robinson Fork
- Wolf Fork
- Mud Creek
- Dry Creek
- Mill Creek
- Cottonwood Creek
- Touchet River
- Snake River
- Palouse River
- Cow Creek
- Union Flat Creek
- Rock Creek
- Imbler Creek
- Cottonwood Creek
- Kamiache Creek
- Pleasant Valley Creek
- Pine Creek
- Thorn Creek
- Rebel Flat Creek
- South Fork Palouse River
- Tucannon River
- Pataha Creek
- Tumalum Creek
- Cummings Creek
- Alkali Flat Creek
- Meadow Creek
- Deadman Creek
- Penawawa Creek
- Alpowa Creek
- Asotin Creek
- George Creek
- Charley Creek
- South Fork Asotin Creek
- Lick Creek
- Grande Ronde River
- Joseph Creek
- Menatchee Creek
- Crooked Creek
- Wenaha River (North Fork)
- Palouse River
Central Columbian Basin
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- Yakima River
- Amon Creek
- Satus Creek
- Logy Creek
- Toppenish Creek
- Simcoe Creek
- Ahtanum Creek
- Wide Hollow Creek
- Naches River
- Cowiche Creek
- Tieton River
- Rimrock Lake
- South Fork Tieton River
- North Fork Tieton River
- Rimrock Lake
- Rattle Snake Creek
- Little Rattle Snake Creek
- Nile Creek
- Bumping River
- American River
- Deep Creek
- Crow Creek
- Little Naches River
- Wenas Creek
- Lmuma Creek
- Umtanum Creek
- Wilson Creek
- Cherry Creek
- Cooke Creek
- Caribou Creek
- Park Creek
- Naneum Creek
- Coleman Creek
- Cherry Creek
- Reever Creek
- Manastash Creek
- Robinson Creek
- Dry Creek
- Taneum Creek
- Swauk Creek
- First Creek
- Teanaway River
- Cle Elum River
- Little Creek
- Big Creek
- Kachess River
- Cabin Creek
- Keechelus Lake
- Hanson Creek
- Lower Crab Creek
- Potholes Reservoir / Moses Lake
- Rocky Ford Creek (Grand Coulee)
- Upper Crab Creek
- Potholes Reservoir / Moses Lake
- Johnson Creek
- Whiskey Dick Creek
- Tekison Creek
- Lynch Coulee
- Tarpiscan Creek
- Douglas Creek
- Colockum Creek
- Rock Island Creek
- Beaver Creek
- Squilchuck Creek
- Wenatchee River
- Mission Creek
- Peshastin Creek
- Ingalls Creek
- Chumstick Creek
- Eagle Creek
- Icicle Creek
- Snow Creek (Enchantment Lakes)
- Eightmile Creek
- Mountaineer Creek
- Fourth of July Creek
- Jack Creek
- French Creek
- Chiwaukum Creek
- Chiwawa River
- Big Meadow Creek
- Phelps Creek
- Fish Lake Run
- Nason Creek
- Whitepine Creek
- Lake Wenatchee
- Little Wenatchee River
- White River
- Napeequa River
- Indian Creek
- Swakane Creek
- Entiat River
- Mad River
- Mud Creek
- North Fork Entiat
Lake Chelan to Coulee Dam
[edit]- Chelan River (Lake Chelan)
- Twentyfive Mile Creek
- Prince Creek
- Railroad Creek
- Stehekin River
- Company Creek
- Agnes Creek
- Bridge Creek
- Flat Creek
- Methow River
- Gold Creek
- South Fork Gold Creek
- Foggy Dew Creek
- Libby Creek
- Beaver Creek
- Frazer Creek
- Twisp River
- Little Bridge Creek
- Buttermilk Creek
- War Creek
- Bear Creek
- Chewuch River
- Cub Creek
- Boulder Creek
- Eightmile Creek
- Falls Creek
- Twenty Miles creek
- Andrews Creek
- Wolf Creek
- Goat Creek
- Early Winters Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Lost River
- Eureka Creek
- Robinson Creek
- Gold Creek
- Swamp Creek
- Okanogan River
- Chiliwist Creek
- Loup Loup Creek
- Salmon Creek (Conconully Reservoir)
- West Fork Salmon
- North Fork Salmon
- Omak Creek
- No Name Creek (Omak Lake)
- Kartar Creek
- No Name Creek (Omak Lake)
- Wanacut Creek
- Johnson Creek
- Tunk Creek
- Chewiliken Creek
- Bonaparte Creek
- Siwash Creek
- Antoine Creek
- Similkameen River
- Palmer Creek (Palmer Lake)
- Sinlahekin Creek
- Chopaka Creek (Chopaka Lake)
- Toats Coulee Creek
- Cecil Creek
- Sinlahekin Creek
- Ashnola River
- Pasayten River
- East Fork Pasayten
- West Fork Pasayten
- Middle Fork Pasayten
- Chuchuwanteen Creek
- Castle Creek
- Palmer Creek (Palmer Lake)
- Tomasket Creek
- Osoyoos Lake
- Foster Creek
- Coyote Creek
- Nespelem River
- Little Nespelem River
- North Star Creek
- Stepstone Creek
Upper Columbia Basin
[edit]- Sanpoil River
- Twentythree Mile Creek
- Seventeenmile Creek
- West Fork Sanpoil River
- Gold Creek
- Lost Creek
- Cape Labelle Creek
- Granite Creek
- O'Brien Creek
- Hawk Creek
- Spokane River
- Cable Creek
- Spring Creek
- Chamokane Creek
- Little Spokane River
- Deadman Creek
- Dragoon Creek
- Deer Creek
- West Branch Little Spokane (Eloika Lake)
- Coulee Creek
- Deep Creek
- Latah Creek (Hangman Creek)
- Garden Springs Creek
- California Creek
- Rock Creek
- Little Hangman Creek
- Ninemile Creek
- Wilmont Creek
- Stranger Creek
- Hall Creek
- Lynx Creek
- Barnaby Creek
- Sherman Creek
- Colville River
- Mill Creek
- Haller Creek
- Little Pend Oreille River
- Bear Creek
- Stranger Creek
- Stensgar Creek
- Chewelah Creek
- Cottonwood Creek
- Huckleberry Creek
- Grouse Creek
- Deer Creek
- Sheep Creek
- Kettle River
- Deadman Creek
- Boulder Creek
- East Deer Creek
- West Deer Creek
- Lon Alec Creek
- Curlew Creek (Curlew Lake)
- Lambert Creek
- Trout Creek
- Tonata Creek
- Toroda Creek
- Myers Creek
- Mary Ann Creek
- Onion Creek
- Big Sheep Creek
- Deep Creek
- Pend Oreille River (mouth just across Canada–United States border)
- Slate Creek
- Sullivan Creek
- Harvey Creek (Sullivan Lake)
- Ruby Creek
- Le Clerc Creek
- Tacoma Creek
- Calispell Creek
- Small Creek
- Winchester Creek
- Skookum Creek
- Priest River (itself in Idaho, but Western tributaries in Washington)
- Lower West Branch Priest River
- Upper West Branch Priest River
- Kalispell Creek
- Granite Creek
Alphabetically
[edit]- American River
- Amon Creek
- Ashnola River
- Baker River
- Bear River
- Beckler River
- Big Quilcene River
- Black River (historical)
- Black River
- Boeing Creek
- Bogachiel River
- Bone River
- Bumping River
- Calawah River
- Canyon River
- Carbon River
- Cedar River (Lake Washington)
- Cedar River (Willapa Bay)
- Chaplain Creek
- Chehalis River
- Chelan River
- Chewuch River
- Chilliwack River
- Chinook River
- Chiwaukum Creek
- Chiwawa River
- Chumstick Creek
- Cispus River
- Clallam River
- Cle Elum River
- Clear Creek
- Clearwater River (Queets River)
- Clearwater River (White River)
- Clover Creek
- Coal Creek
- Columbia River
- Colville River
- Coulee Creek
- Coweeman River
- Cowlitz River
- Crab Creek
- Deep Creek
- Depot Creek
- Deschutes River
- Dewatto River
- Dickey River
- Dosewallips River
- Duckabush River
- Dungeness River
- Duwamish River
- East Fork Miller River
- East Twin River
- Elk River
- Elwha River
- Entiat River
- Fauntleroy Creek
- Foss River
- Gray Wolf River
- Grays River
- Green River (Duwamish River tributary)
- Green River (Toutle River tributary)
- Greenwater River
- Hamma Hamma River
- Hoh River
- Hoko River
- Humptulips River
- Icicle Creek
- Indian Creek (Elwha River)
- Issaquah Creek
- Juanita Creek
- Kachess River
- Kalama River
- Kelsey Creek
- Kettle River
- Klickitat River
- Lacamas Creek
- Lewis River
- Little Chilliwack River
- Little Pend Oreille River
- Little Quilcene River
- Little River
- Little Spokane River
- Little Wenatchee River
- Little White Salmon River
- Lyon Creek
- Mad River
- Mashel River
- McAleer Creek
- Methow River
- Middle Fork Snoqualmie River
- Miller River
- Muddy River
- Naches River
- Napeequa River
- Naselle River
- Nason Creek
- Newaukum River
- Niawiakum River
- Nisqually River
- Nooksack River
- North Creek
- North Fork Skykomish River
- North Fork Snoqualmie River
- North River
- Okanogan River
- Palouse River
- Paradise River
- Pend Oreille River
- Pilchuck River
- Pratt River
- Puyallup River
- Queets River
- Quillayute River
- Quinault River
- Raging River
- Rapid River
- Rex River
- Rock Creek (Latah Creek)
- Rock Creek (Palouse River)
- Sail River
- Samish River
- Sammamish River
- Satsop River
- Sauk River
- Silesia Creek
- Skagit River
- Skokomish River
- Skookumchuck River
- Skykomish River
- Sloan Creek
- Snahapish River
- Snake River
- Snohomish River
- Snoqualmie River
- Sol Duc River
- South Fork Skykomish River
- South Fork Snoqualmie River
- South Fork Sultan River
- Spokane River
- Stehekin River
- Stillaguamish River
- Stuck River
- Sultan River
- Swamp Creek
- Tahuya River
- Taylor Creek
- Teanaway River
- Thornton Creek
- Tieton River
- Tilton River
- Tolt River
- Touchet River
- Toutle River
- Tucannon River
- Twisp River
- Tye River
- Union River
- Van Trump Creek
- Walla Walla River
- Wallace River
- Washougal River
- Waatch River
- Wells Creek
- Wenatchee River
- West Fork Miller River
- West Twin River
- White River (Puyallup River tributary)
- White River (Wenatchee Lake tributary)
- White Salmon River
- Wilder Creek
- Willapa River
- Wishkah River
- Wynoochee River
- Yakima River
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- USGS Streamflow Data for Washington
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Washington (1974)