List of rivers of Alabama
This is a list of rivers of the US state of Alabama. Alabama has over 77,000 miles of rivers and streams with more freshwater biodiversity than any other US state. Alabama's rivers are among the most biologically diverse waterways in the world. 38% of North America's fish species, 43% of its freshwater gill-breathing snails, 51% of its freshwater turtle species, and 60% of its freshwater mussel species are native to Alabama's rivers.
List by drainage basin[]
All rivers in Alabama eventually flow into the Gulf of Mexico. This list arranges rivers into drainage basin, which are ordered by the location of the mouth of the main stem from east to west. Tributaries are ordered from mouth to source (subject to being within the borders of Alabama).
Gulf Coast (east)[]
drainage basins for the main rivers draining southeastern Alabama
- Apalachicola River (FL)
- Chattahoochee River
- Choctawhatchee River
- Pea River
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- Whitewater Creek
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- Little Choctawhatchee River
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- Pea River
- Yellow River
- Shoal River (FL)
- Shoal River (FL)
- Blackwater River (Pensacola Bay)
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- Escambia River (FL)
- Perdido River
- Blackwater River (Perdido Bay)
- Styx River
Mobile Bay[]
By far, the Mobile drainage basin is the largest in Alabama
- Mobile River-Tensaw River
- Spanish River
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- Middle River
- Alabama River
- Tombigbee River
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- (west side Tombigbee River tributary)
- Bassett Creek (east side Tombigbee River tributary)
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- Okatuppa Creek
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- Bashi Creek
- Horse Creek
- Tuckabum Creek
- Kinterbish Creek
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- Sucarnoochee River
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- Black Warrior River
- Noxubee River
- Sipsey River
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- Luxapallila Creek
- Buttahatchee River
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- Spanish River
Gulf Coast (west)[]
- Pascagoula River (MS)
Mississippi River[]
- Mississippi River (LA, MS, TN, KY)
- Ohio River (KY)
Alphabetically[]
- Alabama River
- Alamuchee Creek
- Apalachee River
- Bashi Creek
- Bassett Creek (east side Tombigbee River tributary)
- (west side Tombigbee River tributary)
- Bear Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
- Black Warrior River
- Blackwater River (Pensacola Bay)
- Blackwater River (Perdido Bay)
- Blakeley River
- Bodka Creek
- , Alabama River tributary
- Bon Secour River
- Broglen River
- Buck Creek
- Buttahatchee River
- Cahaba River
- Catoma Creek
- Chattahoochee River
- Chattooga River
- Choctawhatchee River
- Conecuh River
- Coosa River
- Dog River
- Duck River
- East Fork Little River
- East Fowl River
- Elk River
- Escambia River
- Escatawpa River
- Fish River
- Flint Creek
- Flint River
- Fowl River
- Hillabahatchee Creek
- Horse Creek
- Hurricane Creek (Black Warrior River tributary)
- Indian Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
- Kinterbish Creek
- Limestone Creek
- Little Choctawhatchee River
- Little River, Coosa River tributary
- Little Tallapoosa River
- Little Warrior River
- Locust Fork
- Luxapallila Creek
- Middle River
- Mobile River
- Mud Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
- Mulberry Creek (Alabama River tributary)
- Mulberry Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
- Mulberry Fork
- Murder Creek
- No Business Creek
- North River
- Noxubee River
- Okatuppa Creek
- Paint Rock River
- Pea River
- Perdido River
- Puss Cuss Creek
- Sepulga River
- Shoal Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
- Short Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
- Sipsey Creek
- Sipsey River
- Sipsey Fork
- South Sauty Creek
- Spanish River
- Styx River
- Sucarnoochee River
- Tallapoosa River
- Tennessee River
- Tensaw River
- Tombigbee River
- Tuckabum Creek
- Uchee Creek
- Waxahatchee Creek
- Wehadkee Creek
- West Fowl River
- Whitewater Creek
- Yellow River
See also[]
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- List of rivers in the United States
References[]
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Alabama (1974)
Categories:
- Lists of rivers of the United States by state
- Rivers of Alabama
- Alabama geography-related lists