List of rivers of New York
Appearance
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of New York.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented by order of confluence with their main stem, from mouth to source.
Long Island Sound (northern side)
- Housatonic River (CT)
- Norwalk River (CT)
- Rippowam River
- Mianus River
- Byram River
- Blind Brook
- Mamaroneck River
- Hutchinson River
Long Island
- Long Island Sound
- Block Island Sound
- Atlantic Ocean
- Carmans River 10 miles
- Connetquot River 6 miles
- Forge River 3.2 miles
- Swan River 2 miles
- Patchogue River 1 mile
- Carlls River
- Massapequa Creek
- Seaford Creek
- Bellmore Creek
- East Meadow Brook
- Cedar Swamp Creek
- Mill River
- Aspatuck River
- Speonk River
New York Harbor
- Arthur Kill (tidal strait)
- Passaic River (NJ)
- Hackensack River
- Kill Van Kull (tidal strait)
- East River (tidal strait)
- Newtown Creek
- Harlem River (tidal strait)
- Bronx Kill (tidal strait)
- Bronx River
- Flushing River
- Westchester Creek
Hudson River Basin
- Hudson River (also known as the North River)
- Saw Mill River
- Wickers Creek
- Sparkill Creek
- Pocantico River
- Sing Sing Brook
- Croton River
- Minisceongo Creek
- Cedar Pond Brook
- Annsville Creek
- Broccy Creek
- Popolopen Creek
- Highland Brook
- Arden Brook
- Indian Brook
- Crows Nest Brook
- Foundry Brook
- Breakneck Brook
- Moodna Creek
- Gordons Brook
- Fishkill Creek
- Quassaick Creek
- Wappinger Creek
- Lattintown Creek
- Casperkill
- Fall Kill
- Twaalfskill Creek
- Maritje Kill
- Crum Elbow Creek
- Bard Rock Creek
- Indian Kill
- North Staatsburg Creek
- Black Creek (Hudson River tributary)
- Fallsburg Creek
- Landsman Kill
- Rondout Creek
- Wallkill River
- Cottekill Brook
- Coxing Kill
- Kripplebush Creek
- Peters Kill
- Stony Kill
- Rochester Creek
- Ver Nooy Kill
- Beer Kill Creek
- Brandy Brook
- Trout Creek (Rondout Creek tributary)
- Chestnut Creek (Rondout Creek tributary)
- Sugarloaf Brook
- Sundown Creek
- High Falls Brook
- Stone Cabin Brook
- Bear Hole Brook
- Buttermilk Falls Brook
- Picket Brook
- Mudder Kill
- Saw Kill
- Stony Creek
- Esopus Creek
- Sawyer Kill
- Roeliff Jansen Kill
- Catskill Creek
- Stockport Creek
- Mill Creek
- Coxsackie Creek
- Hannacrois Creek
- Coeymans Creek
- Schodack Creek
- Mill Creek
- Vloman Kill
- Moordener Kill
- Normans Kill
- Wynants Kill
- Poesten Kill
- Mohawk River
- Alplaus Kill
- Delphus Kill
- Shakers Creek
- Lisha Kill
- Plotter Kill
- Moccasin Kill
- Sandsea Kill
- Terwilleger Creek
- North Chuctanunda Creek
- South Chuctanunda Creek
- Schoharie Creek
- Auries Creek
- Cayadutta Creek
- Van Wie Creek
- Yatesville Creek
- Lasher Creek
- Flat Creek
- Canajoharie Creek
- Otsquago Creek
- Caroga Creek
- East Canada Creek
- Nowadaga Creek
- West Canada Creek
- Honnedaga Brook
- Seabury Brook
- Big Brook
- Mill Creek
- Mad Tom Brook
- Concklin Brook
- Cincinnati Creek
- Shed Brook
- Mill Brook
- Indian River
- Metcalf Brook
- Betty Green Brook
- South Branch West Canada Creek
- Fourmile Brook
- Mill Creek
- Cold Brook
- Oklahoma Creek
- White Creek
- City Brook
- Maltanner Creek
- Stony Creek
- North Creek
- Fulmer Creek
- Steele Creek
- Moyer Creek
- Sauquoit Creek
- Oriskany Creek
- Ninemile Creek
- Sixmile Creek
- Hurlbut Glen Brook
- Wells Creek
- Tannery Brook
- Stringer Brook
- Lansing Kill
- Haynes Brook
- Blue Brook
- Hoosic River
- Fish Creek
- Batten Kill
- Slocum Creek
- Moses Kill
- Snook Kill
- Champlain Canal
- Sturdevant Creek
- Sacandaga River
- Schroon River
- Patterson Brook
- North Creek
- Boreas River
- Indian River
- Cedar River
- Goodnow River
- Newcomb River
- Opalescent River
Delaware River Basin
- Delaware River
- Neversink River
- Mongaup River
- Tenmile River
- Callicoon Creek
- Hankins Creek
- Basket Creek
- Hoolihan Brook
- Pea Brook
- Bouchoux Brook
- Abe Lord Creek
- Humphries Brook
- Blue Mill Stream
- East Branch Delaware River
- West Branch Delaware River
Susquehanna River Basin
- Susquehanna River
- Chemung River
- Cayuta Creek
- Wappasening Creek
- Pipe Creek
- Owego Creek
- Apalachin Creek
- Nanticoke Creek
- Choconut Creek
- Chenango River
- Little Snake Creek
- Snake Creek
- Tuscarora Creek
- Hotchkins Creek
- Sanford Creek
- Occanum Creek
- Sage Creek
- Ouaquaga Creek
- Watersnake Creek
- Belden Brook
- Wylie Brook
- Reed Creek
- Cornell Creek
- Kelsey Brook
- Landers Creek
- Osborn Brook
- Newton Brook
- Yaleville Creek
- Unadilla River
- Carrs Creek
- Martin Brook
- Ouleout Creek
- Sand Hill Creek
- Brier Creek
- Flax Island Creek
- Otsdawa Creek
- Mill Creek
- Otego Creek
- Charlotte Creek
- Schenevus Creek
- Cherry Valley Creek
- Burditt Brook
- Black Brook
- Chase Creek
- Oaks Creek
- Red Creek
St. Lawrence River Basin
Lake Champlain
- Great Chazy River
- Little Chazy River
- Saranac River
- Salmon River
- Little Ausable River
- Ausable River
- Boquet River
- La Chute
- East Bay
- Mettawee River
St. Lawrence River
- Saint Lawrence River
Lake Ontario
- Chaumont River
- Perch River
- Black River
- Mill Creek
- Stony Creek
- Sandy Creek (Jefferson County, New York)
- Little Sandy Creek
- Salmon River
- Little Salmon River
- Oswego River
- Oneida River
- Seneca River
- Onondaga Lake:
- Skaneateles Creek
- Owasco Outlet
- Clyde River
- Canandaigua Outlet
- Flint Creek
- Canandaigua Lake:
- Ganargua Creek
- Sucker Brook
- Canandaigua Outlet
- Cayuga Lake:
- Seneca Lake:
- Ninemile Creek
- Sterling Creek
- Irondequoit Creek
- Genesee River
- Salmon Creek
- Sandy Creek (Monroe County, New York)
- Oak Orchard Creek
- Johnson Creek
- Eighteen Mile Creek
- Niagara River
Lake Erie
- Buffalo River
- Eighteen Mile Creek
- Cattaraugus Creek
- Canadaway Creek
- Chautauqua Creek
- Twentymile Creek
- Silver Creek
- Big Sister Creek
Mississippi River Basin
- Mississippi River
Alphabetically
- Abijah Creek
- Allegheny River
- Alplaus Kill
- Ampersand Brook
- Angelica Creek
- Annsville Creek
- Apalachin Creek
- Arthur Kill (tidal strait)
- Aspatuck River
- Ausable River
- Baldwin Creek
- Baker Creek
- Bash Bish Brook
- Basher Kill
- Basic Creek
- Batten Kill
- Bean River
- Beaver Creek (Great Chazy River tributary)
- Beaver Creek (Unadilla River tributary)
- Beaver Kill
- Beaver Kill (Esopus Creek tributary)
- Beaver Meadows Creek
- Beaver River
- Beecher Creek
- Bennetts Creek
- Bentley Creek
- Big Brook
- Big Creek (Champlain Canal)
- Big Creek (Oswegatchie River tributary)
- Big Sixmile Creek (Grand Island, New York)
- Black Brook (Ausable River tributary)
- Black Brook (Mongaup River tributary)
- Black Creek (Angelica Creek tributary)
- Black Creek (Beaver River tributary)
- Black Creek (Genesee River-Allegany County, New York)
- Black Creek (Genesee River-Monroe County, New York)
- Black Creek (Indian River tributary)
- Black Creek (West Canada Creek tributary)
- Black Meadow Creek
- Black River, in the western Adirondacks
- Black River (Boquet River tributary)
- Black River (Kinderhook Creek tributary)
- Bloody Run (Niagara County, New York)
- Bog River
- Bowman Creek
- Bonaparte Creek
- Boquet River
- Boreas River
- Bowery Creek
- Bozen Kill
- Brandy Brook
- Bronx Kill (tidal strait)
- Bronx River
- Buffalo River (includes Buffalo Creek)
- Burnt Ship Creek (Grand Island, New York)
- Burditt Brook
- Buttermilk Creek
- Butternut Creek (Oneida Lake)
- Butternut Creek (Limestone Creek tributary)
- Butternut Creek (Unadilla River tributary)
- Byram River
- Callicoon Creek
- Campbell Creek
- Canacadea Creek
- Canadaway Creek
- Canajoharie Creek
- Canandaigua Outlet
- Canasawacta Creek
- Caneadea Creek
- Canisteo River
- Carlls River
- Carmans River
- Caroga Creek
- Casperkill
- Catatonk Creek
- Catharine Creek
- Catskill Creek
- Cattaraugus Creek
- Caughdenoy Creek
- Cayadutta Creek
- Cayuga Creek (Erie County, New York)
- Cayuga Creek (Niagara County, New York)
- Cayuga Inlet
- Cayuta Creek
- Cazenovia Creek
- Cedar River
- Cedar Swamp Creek
- Chadakoin River
- Champlain Canal
- Charlotte Creek
- Chateauguay River
- Chaumont River
- Chautauqua Creek
- Chemung River
- Chenango River
- Chenunda Creek
- Cherry Valley Creek
- Chippewa Creek
- Choconut Creek
- Chubb River
- Cincinnati Creek
- Claverack Creek
- Clove Creek
- Clyde River
- Cob Creek
- Cobblestone Creek
- Cobleskill Creek
- Coeymans Creek
- Cohocton River
- Cold Brook
- Cold Creek
- Cold River
- Coles Creek
- Colonel Bills Creek
- Conewango Creek
- Connetquot River
- Cowanesque River
- Coxsackie Creek
- Cranberry Creek
- Cromline Creek
- Crooked Creek
- Crosby Creek
- Cross River
- Croton River
- Cryder Creek
- Crystal Creek
- Dead Creek
- Deer River (Black River tributary)
- Deer River (St. Regis River tributary)
- Delaware River
- Devereaux Branch
- Dodge Creek
- Dowers Kill
- Dudley Creek
- Dwaar Kill (Shawangunk Kill tributary)
- Dwaar Kill (Wallkill River tributary)
- Dyke Creek
- East Branch Ausable River
- East Branch Callicoon Creek
- East Branch Cazenovia Creek
- East Branch Croton River
- East Branch Delaware River
- East Branch Neversink River
- East Branch Owego Creek
- East Branch Sacandaga River
- East Branch St. Regis River
- East Branch Salmon River
- East Branch Tioughnioga River
- East Canada Creek
- East Kill
- East Mongaup River
- East River (tidal strait)
- East Stony Creek
- Eighteen Mile Creek (Erie County)
- Eighteen Mile Creek (Niagara County)
- Eightmile Creek
- Ellicott Creek
- English River
- Esopus Creek
- Fall Creek
- Fall Stream
- Farrington Brook
- Fish Creek (Hudson River tributary)
- Fish Creek (Niagara County, New York)
- Fish Creek (Oneida Lake tributary)
- Fishkill Creek
- Fivemile Creek
- Flat Creek (Mohawk River tributary)
- Flat Creek (Fulmer Creek tributary)
- Flint Creek
- Flushing River
- Fly Creek (Oaks Creek tributary)
- Fly Creek (Sacandaga River tributary)
- Fly Creek (Schoharie River tributary)
- Forge River
- Forks Creek
- Fox Creek (Catskill Creek tributary)
- Fox Creek (Schoharie Creek tributary)
- French Creek (Allegheny River tributary)
- French Creek (St. Lawrence River tributary)
- Fresh Kills
- Fulmer Creek
- Gates Creek
- Genesee River
- Gill Creek (Niagara County, New York)
- Glowegee Creek
- Goff Creek
- Goodnow River
- Grasse River
- Great Chazy River
- Green River
- Grunley Creek
- Gulf Stream
- Gun Creek (Grand Island, New York)
- Hackensack River
- Halfway Creek
- Hamilton Lake Stream
- Hannacrois Creek
- Harlem River (tidal strait)
- Harrison Creek
- Haskell Creek
- Hemlock Creek (New York)
- Honeoye Creek
- Hoosic River
- Hudson River
- Hunters Creek
- Hunts Creek
- Hutchinson River
- Independence River
- Indian Creek
- Indian River (Black Lake)
- Indian River (Hudson River tributary)
- Indian River (Mettawee River tributary)
- Indian River (Moose River tributary)
- Indian River (West Canada Creek tributary)
- Irondequoit Creek
- Ischua Creek
- Jackson Creek
- Jan De Bakkers Kill
- Jessup River
- Johnson Creek
- Jordan River
- Kaaterskill Creek
- Kayaderosseras Creek
- Kennyetto Creek
- Keuka Lake Outlet
- Kill Van Kull (tidal strait)
- Kinderhook Creek
- Kisco River
- Kline Kill
- Kunjamuk River
- La Chute
- Lake Creek
- Lake Ozonia Outlet
- Lansing Kill
- Ley Creek
- Lidell Creek
- Little Ausable River
- Little Black Creek
- Little Chazy River
- Little Delaware River
- Little Genesee Creek
- Little Hoosic River
- Little River (Fish Creek tributary)
- Little River (Grass River tributary)
- Little River (Mad River tributary)
- Little River (Oswegatchie River tributary)
- Little River (Peconic River tributary)
- Little Salmon River (Lake Ontario)
- Little Salmon River (St. Lawrence River tributary)
- Little Sixmile Creek (Grand Island, New York)
- Little Snake Creek
- Little Trout River
- Little Valley Creek
- Little Wappinger Creek
- Little West Kill
- Little Woodhull Creek
- Long Pond Outlet
- Loyal Creek
- Mad River (Fish Creek tributary)
- Mad River (Salmon River tributary)
- Mahwah River
- Mamaroneck River
- Mansfield Creek
- Marble River
- Marion River
- Meads Creek
- Melzingah Brook
- Merrill Creek
- Mettawee River
- Miami River
- Mianus River
- Middle Branch Grass River
- Middle Branch Moose River
- Middle Branch Oswegatchie River
- Middle Mongaup River
- Mill Brook
- Mill Creek (Hudson River tributary)
- Mill Creek (Lake Ontario)
- Mill Creek (Owasco Inlet)
- Mill River (Long Island)
- Mill River (Rippowam River tributary)
- Mill River (Swamp River tributary)
- Mineral Spring Brook
- Minerva Stream
- Mohawk River
- Mongaup River
- Moodna Creek
- Moordener Kill
- Moose Creek (Raquette River tributary)
- Moose Creek (Sugar River tributary)
- Moose River
- Moses Kill
- Mosher Brook
- Moyer Creek
- Mud Creek (Cohocton River tributary)
- Mud Creek (Otselic River tributary)
- Muddy Kill
- Mudlick Creek
- Muitzes Kill
- Mullet Creek
- Muscoot River
- Muskrat Pond Outlet
- Nanticoke Creek
- Neversink River
- Newcomb River
- Newtown Creek in New York City
- Newtown Creek (Chemung River tributary)
- Niagara River
- Ninemile Creek (Lake Ontario tributary)
- Ninemile Creek (Mohawk River tributary)
- Ninemile Creek (Onondaga Lake tributary)
- Nissequogue River
- Normans Kill
- North Branch Boquet River
- North Branch Callicoon Creek
- North Branch Grass River
- North Branch Great Chazy River
- North Branch Little Salmon River
- North Branch Moose River
- North Branch Salmon River
- North Branch Sandy Creek
- North Branch Saranac River
- North Branch Tuscarora Creek
- North Chuctanunda Creek
- North Creek
- North Fork Cowanesque River
- North River (the lower Hudson River)
- Northwest Bay Brook
- Nowadaga Creek
- Oak Orchard Creek
- Oaks Creek
- Oatka Creek
- Ohisa Creek
- Oil Creek
- Olean Creek
- Oneida Creek
- Oneida River
- Onesquethaw Creek
- Onion River
- Onondaga Creek
- Onondaga Lake Outlet
- Opalescent River
- Oriskany Creek
- Osgood River
- Oswayo Creek
- Oswegatchie River
- Oswego River
- Otego Creek
- Otis Creek
- Otselic River
- Otsquago Creek
- Otsquene Creek
- Otstungo Creek
- Otter Brook
- Otter Creek (Black River tributary)
- Otter Creek (Indian River tributary)
- Otter Kill
- Ouleout Creek
- Owasco Inlet
- Owasco Outlet
- Owego Creek
- Page Brook
- Palmer Creek
- Patchogue River
- Patterson Brook
- Paul Creek
- Peconic River
- Peekskill Hollow Creek
- Perch River
- Phelps Creek
- Phillipin Kill
- Phinney Creek
- Pike Creek
- Pine Creek
- Pipe Creek
- Piseco Outlet
- Plattekill Creek
- Platte Kill
- Pocantico River
- Pochuck Creek
- Poesten Kill
- Point Rock Creek
- Popolopen Creek
- Post Creek
- Potic Creek
- Poultney River
- Plum Brook
- Purdy Creek
- Quacken Kill
- Quassaick Creek
- Ramapo River
- Raquette River
- Red House Brook
- Red River
- Richmond Creek
- Ringwood River
- Rippowam River
- Roaring Brook
- Robinson River
- Rock River
- Roeliff-Jansen Kill
- Rondout Creek
- Round Lake Stream
- Rush Creek
- Sacandaga River
- Saddle River
- Saint Lawrence River
- Saint Regis River
- Salmon Creek (Cayuga Lake)
- Salmon Creek (Lake Ontario)
- Salmon River (Lake Champlain)
- Salmon River (New York)
- Salmon River (Raquette River tributary)
- Salmon River (St. Lawrence River tributary)
- Sandusky River (Seneca River tributary)
- Sandy Creek (Jefferson County, New York)
- Sandy Creek (Monroe County, New York)
- Sangerfield River
- Saranac River
- Sauquoit Creek
- Saw Kill
- Saw Kill (Esopus Creek tributary)
- Saw Mill River
- Sawyer Kill
- Scajaquada Creek
- Schenevus Creek
- Schodack Creek
- Schoharie Creek
- Schroon River
- Schuyler Creek
- Scriba Creek
- Seeley Creek
- Seneca River
- Shawangunk Kill
- Shekomeko Creek
- Sheldrake River
- Sheldrake Stream
- Silvermine River
- Sing Sing Brook
- Sixmile Creek
- Slocum Creek
- Snake Creek
- Snook Kill
- South Branch Cattaraugus Creek
- South Branch Eighteenmile Creek
- South Branch Grass River
- South Branch Moose River
- South Branch West Canada Creek
- South Chuctanunda Creek
- South Creek
- South Inlet (Raquette Lake)
- South Sandy Creek
- Sparkill Creek
- Speonk River
- Spicer Creek (Grand Island, New York)
- Sprite Creek
- Sprout Creek
- Spruce Creek
- Steele Creek
- Sterling Creek
- Stillwater Creek
- Stone Hill River
- Stony Brook (St. Regis River tributary)
- Stony Clove Creek
- Stony Creek (Hudson River tributary)
- Stony Creek (Lake Ontario)
- Stony Kill
- Sturdevant Creek
- Sucker Brook
- Sugar River
- Susquehanna River
- Swamp River
- Swan River
- Switz Kill
- Tackawasick Creek
- Taghkanic Creek
- Tanner Creek (Grass River tributary)
- Taughannock Creek
- Tenmile Creek (Catskill Creek tributary)
- Tenmile River (Delaware River tributary)
- Tenmile River (Housatonic River tributary)
- The Branch
- Tioga River
- Tioughnioga River
- Titicus River
- Tomhannock Creek
- Tonawanda Creek
- Treadwell Creek
- Tremper Kill
- Troups Creek
- Trout Brook (Deer River tributary)
- Trout Brook (Raquette River tributary)
- Trout Brook (Schroon River tributary)
- Trout Brook (St. Regis River tributary)
- Trout River
- Trumansburg Creek
- Tunungwant Creek
- Tuscarora Creek
- Twentymile Creek
- Two Mile Creek
- Unadilla River
- Valatie Kill
- Van Campen Creek
- Vandermark Creek
- Virgil Creek
- Vloman Kill
- Waccabuc River
- Wading River
- Wallkill River
- Walloomsac River
- Wampus River
- Wappasening Creek
- Wappinger Creek
- Webatuck Creek
- West Branch Ausable River
- West Branch Cazenovia Creek
- West Branch Croton River
- West Branch Deer River (Black River tributary)
- West Branch Deer River (St. Regis River tributary)
- West Branch Delaware River
- West Branch Mongaup River
- West Branch Neversink River
- West Branch Oswegatchie River
- West Branch Owego Creek
- West Branch Sacandaga River
- West Branch St. Regis River
- West Branch Tioughnioga River
- West Canada Creek
- West Creek (Cobleskill Creek tributary)
- West Creek (Indian River tributary)
- West Kill
- West River
- West Stony Creek
- Westchester Creek
- Wharton Creek
- White River
- Willowemoc Creek
- Willseyville Creek
- Windfall Brook
- Wiscoy Creek
- Whortlekill Creek
- Wood Creek
- Woodhull Creek
- Woodland Creek
- Woods Creek (Grand Island, New York)
- Wrights Creek
- Wylie Brook
- Wynants Kill
- Wyomanock Creek
See also
External links
References
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of New York (1974)