List of rivers of Virginia
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This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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[edit] By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries, arranged in the order of their confluence from mouth to source, indented under each larger stream's name.
[edit] Atlantic Ocean north of Chesapeake Bay
[edit] Chesapeake Bay
- Potomac River
- Hull Creek
- Coan River
- Yeocomico River
- Lower Machodoc Creek
- Nomini Creek
- Popes Creek
- Mattox Creek
- Rosier Creek
- Upper Machodoc Creek
- Potomac Creek
- Aquia Creek
- Chopawamsic Creek
- Quantico Creek
- Neabsco Creek
- Occoquan River
- Pohick Creek
- Accotink Creek
- Dogue Creek
- Little Hunting Creek
- Hunting Creek
- Four Mile Run
- Pimmit Run
- Difficult Run
- Sugarland Run
- Broad Run
- Goose Creek
- Catoctin Creek
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- Shenandoah River
- Opequon Creek
- Back Creek
- Sleepy Creek
- South Branch Potomac River
- South Fork South Branch Potomac River
- North Fork South Branch Potomac River
- Little Wicomico River
- Great Wicomico River
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- James River
- Hoffler Creek
- Nansemond River
- Chuckatuck Creek
- Pagan River
- Warwick River
- Lawnes Creek
- Skiffes Creek
- College Creek
- Grays Creek
- Chickahominy River
- Upper Chippokes Creek
- Wards Creek
- Bailey Creek
- Appomattox River
- Falling Creek
- Powhite Creek
- Deep Creek
- Muddy Creek
- Willis River
- Byrd Creek
- Rivanna River
- Slate River
- Hardware River
- Rockfish River
- Tye River
- David Creek
- Beaver Creek
- Blackwater Creek
- Harris Creek
- Pedlar River
- Maury River
- Cedar Creek (James River)
- Catawba Creek
- Craig Creek
- Mill Creek (James River)
- Sinking Creek
- Cowpasture River
- Jackson River
- James River
- Lynnhaven River
[edit] Atlantic Ocean south of Chesapeake Bay
- Chowan River (NC)
- Roanoke River (or Staunton River)
- Allen Creek
- Island Creek
- Grassy Creek
- Bluestone Creek
- Dan River
- Difficult Creek
- Roanoke Creek
- Cub Creek
- Falling River
- Straightstone Creek
- Seneca Creek
- Otter River
- Big Otter River
- Goose Creek (Roanoke River)
- Pigg River
- Blackwater River
- Back Creek
- Tinker Creek
- North Fork Roanoke River
- South Fork Roanoke River
- Pee Dee River (NC)
- Yadkin River (NC)
[edit] Mississippi River
[edit] Tennessee River
- Tennessee River (TN)
- Clinch River
- Holston River (TN)
[edit] Ohio River
- Ohio River (KY, WV)
- Big Sandy River (KY)
[edit] Alphabetically
- Aarons Creek
- Abrams Creek
- Accokeek Creek
- Accotink Creek
- Allen Creek
- Appomattox River
- Aquia Creek
- Ararat River
- Back Creek (Jackson River)
- Back Creek (Potomac River)
- Back Creek (Roanoke River)
- Back Creek (South River)
- Back River
- Bailey Creek
- Banister River
- Beaver Creek (James River)
- Beaver Creek (North River)
- Beaver Creek (South Fork Holston River)
- Beaverdam Creek
- Bennett Creek
- Big Chestnut Creek
- Big Creek
- Big Horse Creek
- Big Moccasin Creek
- Big Otter River
- Big Reed Island Creek
- Blackwater Creek
- Blackwater River (Chowan River)
- Blackwater River (Roanoke River)
- Bluestone Creek
- Bluestone River
- Brewers Creek
- Briery Branch
- Broad Run (Occoquan River)
- Broad Run (Potomac River)
- Browns Dan River
- Buck Island Creek
- Buffalo Creek (Appomattox River)
- Buffalo Creek (Maury River)
- Buffalo River
- Bull Run
- Bullpasture River
- Burke Fork
- Bush River
- Byrd Creek
- Cabin Creek
- Cameron Run
- Cascade Creek
- Catawba Creek
- Catoctin Creek
- Calfpasture River
- Cat Point Creek
- Cedar Creek (Jackson River)
- Cedar Creek (James River)
- Cedar Creek (North Fork Shenandoah River)
- Cedar Run (Occoquan River)
- Chickahominy River
- Chopawamsic Creek
- Chestnut Creek
- Christians Creek
- Chuckatuck Creek
- Clinch River
- Coan River
- Cockle Creek
- Cold Spring River
- College Creek
- Conway River
- Cooks Creek
- Copper Creek
- Corrotoman River
- Country Line Creek
- Covington River
- Cowpasture River
- Craig Creek
- Cranes Nest River
- Cripple Creek
- Crooked Creek
- Cub Creek
- Cub Run
- Dan River
- David Creek
- Deep Creek (Appomattox River)
- Deep Creek (James River)
- Diascund Creek
- Difficult Creek
- Difficult Run
- Dismal Creek
- Dogue Creek
- Doyles River
- Dry Fork
- Dry River
- Dunlap Creek
- East Little Seneca Creek
- East River (Giles County)
- East River (Mathews County)
- Eastern Branch Elizabeth River
- Elizabeth River
- Elk Creek
- Falling Creek
- Falling River
- Fisher River
- Flat Creek
- Flat Rock Creek
- Fontaine Creek
- Four Mile Run
- Fox Creek
- German River
- Goose Creek (Potomac River)
- Goose Creek (Roanoke River)
- Goose Creek (South Fork Roanoke River)
- Grassy Creek
- Grays Creek
- Great Wicomico River
- Guest River
- Hampton River
- Hardware River
- Harris Creek
- Harris River
- Hawksbill Creek
- Hays Creek
- Hazel River
- Helton Creek
- Hogue Creek
- Home Creek
- Hoskins Creek
- Hughes River
- Hull Creek
- Hunting Creek
- Hyco River
- Indian Creek
- Indian River
- Irish Creek
- Isaacs Creek
- Island Creek
- Ivy Creek
- Jackson River
- James River
- Johns Creek
- Jordan River
- Kerrs Creek
- Kettle Run
- Kimberling Creek
- Knotts Creek
- Knox Creek
- Lafayette River
- Laurel Creek (North Fork Holston River)
- Laurel Creek (South Fork Holston River)
- Laurel Fork
- Lawnes Creek
- Leatherwood Creek
- Levisa Fork
- Linville Creek
- Little Back Creek
- Little Bluestone Creek
- Little Bull Run
- Little Calfpasture River
- Little Dan River
- Little Dry River
- Little Falling River
- Little Hunting Creek
- Little Nottoway River
- Little Otter River
- Little Piney River
- Little Reed Island Creek
- Little River (Clinch River)
- Little River (Goose Creek)
- Little River (New River)
- Little River (North Anna River)
- Little River (North Carolina-Virginia)
- Little River (North River)
- Little Walker Creek
- Little Wicomico River
- Little Willis River
- Lovills Creek
- Lower Machodoc Creek
- Lynch River
- Lynnhaven River
- McClure River
- Machipongo River
- Maggodee Creek
- Maracossic Creek
- Martin Creek
- Mat River
- Matta River
- Mattaponi River
- Mattox Creek
- Maury River
- Mayo Creek
- Mayo River
- Mechums River
- Mechunk Creek
- Meherrin River
- Middle Fork Holston River
- Middle Meherrin River
- Middle River
- Mill Creek (Calfpasture River)
- Mill Creek (James River)
- Mill Creek (North Fork Shenandoah River)
- Mill Creek (Opequon Creek)
- Mine Run
- Mollys Creek
- Moormans River
- Mosquito Creek
- Motto River
- Mountain Run
- Muddy Creek (Dry River)
- Muddy Creek (James River)
- Naked Creek
- Namozine Creek
- Nansemond River
- Neabsco Creek
- New River
- Newfound River
- Ni River
- Nomini Creek
- North Anna River
- North Buffalo Creek
- North Fork Catoctin Creek
- North Fork Clinch River
- North Fork Goose Creek
- North Fork Holston River
- North Fork Powell River
- North Fork Rivanna River
- North Fork Roanoke River
- North Fork Shenandoah River
- North Fork Tye River
- North Landing River
- North Mayo River
- North Meherrin River
- North River (Mobjack Bay)
- North River (Slate River)
- North River (South Fork Shenandoah River)
- Northwest River
- Northwest Yeocomico River
- Nottoway River
- Occoquan River
- Occupacia Creek
- Ogle Creek
- Opequon Creek
- Pagan River
- Pamunkey Creek
- Pamunkey River
- Passage Creek
- Peak Creek
- Pedlar River
- Perrin River
- Piankatank River
- Pigg River
- Pimmit Run
- Piney River (Thornton River)
- Piney River (Tye River)
- Piscataway Creek
- Po River
- Pocaty River
- Pocomoke River
- Pohick Creek
- Poni River
- Popes Creek
- Popes Head Creek
- Poquoson River
- Poropotank River
- Possum Creek
- Potomac Creek
- Potomac River
- Potts Creek
- Pound River
- Powell River
- Powhite Creek
- Quantico Creek
- Queen Creek
- Rapidan River
- Rappahannock River
- Reed Creek
- Reed Island Creek
- Reedy Creek
- Rivanna River
- Roach River
- Roanoke Creek
- Roanoke River (or Staunton River)
- Robinson River
- Rockfish River
- Rose River
- Rosier Creek
- Rowanty Creek
- Rucker Run
- Rush River
- Russell Creek
- Russell Fork
- Saint Marys River
- Sandy Creek
- Sandy River (Bush River)
- Sandy River (Dan River)
- Sappony Creek
- Seneca Creek
- Severn River
- Shenandoah River
- Shoemaker River
- Sinking Creek (James River)
- Sinking Creek (New River)
- Skiffes Creek
- Slate Creek
- Slate River
- Sleepy Creek
- Smith Creek
- Smith River
- Snake Creek
- Snow Creek
- Somerton Creek
- South Anna River
- South Branch Potomac River
- South Buffalo Creek
- South Fork Catoctin Creek
- South Fork Clinch River
- South Fork Elizabeth River
- South Fork Falling River
- South Fork Holston River
- South Fork Powell River
- South Fork Rivanna River
- South Fork Roanoke River
- South Fork Shenandoah River
- South Fork South Branch Potomac River
- South Fork Tye River
- South Mayo River
- South Meherrin River
- South River (Mattaponi River)
- South River (Maury River)
- South River (Rapidan River)
- South River (Shenandoah River)
- South Yeocomico River
- Southern Branch Elizabeth River
- Staunton River (Rapidan River)
- Staunton River (or Roanoke River)
- Stewarts Creek
- Stinking River
- Stock Creek
- Stony Creek (North Fork Shenandoah River)
- Stony Creek (Nottoway River)
- Straightstone Creek
- Stuart Run
- Sugarland Run
- Swift Creek
- Ta River
- Taylors Creek
- Thornton River
- Three Creek
- Tinker Creek
- Totuskey Creek
- Tug Fork
- Tye River
- Upper Chippokes Creek
- Upper Machodoc Creek
- Walker Creek
- Wallen Creek
- Wards Creek
- Ware River
- Warwick River
- West Fork Little River
- West Little Seneca Creek
- West Yeocomico River
- Western Branch Elizabeth River
- Whistle Creek
- Whitetop Laurel Creek
- Willis River
- Wilson Creek
- Wolf Creek
- Yeocomico River
- York River
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Virginia (1974)
- Salmon, Emily J.; Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr. (1994). The Hornbook of Virginia History (4th Edition ed.). Richmond, VA: Virginia Office of Graphic Communications. ISBN 0-88490-177-7.
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