List of rivers of New York

The Raquette River, in Colton, New York

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)[]

Long Island Sound is shown highlighted in pink between Connecticut (to the north) and Long Island (to the south).

• Housatonic River (CT)
• Norwalk River (CT)
  • Silvermine River
• Rippowam River
• Mianus River
• Byram River
• Blind Brook
• Mamaroneck River
  • Sheldrake River
• Hutchinson River

Long Island[]

Long Island Sound

• Nissequogue River

Block Island Sound

• Peconic River

Atlantic Ocean

• Carmans River 10 miles
• Connetquot River 6 miles
• Forge River 3.2 miles
• Swan River 2 miles
• Patchogue River 1 mile
• Massapequa Creek
• Mill River

New York Harbor[]

New York City waterways: 1. Hudson River, 2. East River, 3. Long Island Sound, 4. Newark Bay, 5. Upper New York Bay, 6. Lower New York Bay, 7. Jamaica Bay, 8. Atlantic Ocean

• Arthur Kill (tidal strait)
  • Fresh Kills
    • Richmond Creek
• Passaic River (NJ)
  • Saddle River
  • Pompton River (NJ)
    • Pequannock River (NJ)
      • Wanaque River
    • Ramapo River
      • Mahwah River
• Hackensack River
  • Pascack Brook
• 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 drainage basin

• Hudson River (also known as the North River)
  • Saw Mill River
  • Sparkill Creek
  • Pocantico River
  • Croton River
    • Kisco River
    • Muscoot River
    • Cross River
    • Titicus River
    • East Branch Croton River
    • West Branch Croton River
  • • Peekskill Hollow Creek
  • Popolopen Creek
  • Breakneck Brook
  • Moodna Creek
    • Otter Kill
      • Black Meadow Creek
  • Fishkill Creek
    • Clove Creek
    • Sprout Creek
      • Jackson Creek
  • Quassaick Creek
  • Wappinger Creek
  • Casperkill
    • Fonteyn Kill
  • Fall Kill
  • Maritje Kill
  • 

    Rondout drainage basin
  • Rondout Creek
    • Wallkill River
      • Shawangunk Kill
        • Dwaar Kill (Shawangunk Kill tributary)
        • Verkeerder Kill
        • Little Shawangunk Kill
      • Dwaar Kill (Wallkill River tributary)
      • Tin Brook
      • Muddy Kill
      • Pochuck Creek
        • Wawayanda Creek
  • Saw Kill
  • Esopus Creek
    • Saw Kill (Esopus Creek tributary)
    • Woodland Creek
    • Stony Clove Creek
    • Bushnellsville Creek
    • Birch Creek (Esopus Creek tributary)
  • Sawyer Kill
  • Roeliff Jansen Kill
  • Catskill Creek
    • Kaaterskill Creek
    • Potic Creek
    • Jan De Bakkers Kill
    • Basic Creek
    • Bowery Creek
    • Tenmile Creek
      • Eightmile Creek
    • Fox Creek
    • Lake Creek
  • Stockport Creek
    • Claverack Creek
      • Taghkanic Creek
    • Kinderhook Creek
  • Coxsackie Creek
  • Hannacrois Creek
  • Coeymans Creek
    • Onesquethaw Creek
  • • Muitzes Kill
  • Mill Creek
  • Vloman Kill
  • Moordener Kill
  • Normans Kill
  • Wynants Kill
  • Poesten Kill
    • Quacken 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
      • Cobleskill Creek
        • West Creek
      • Fox Creek
        • Switz Kill
      • Batavia Kill
      • Little West Kill
      • West Kill
        • Hunter Brook
      • East Kill
    • Auries Creek
    • Cayadutta Creek
    • Van Wie Creek
    • Yatesville Creek
    • Lasher Creek
    • Flat Creek
    • Canajoharie Creek
    • Otsquago Creek
      • Otsquene Creek
    • Caroga Creek
      • Peck Creek
      • Sprite Creek
    • East Canada Creek
      • Sprite 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
      • Flat 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
    • Walloomsac River
  • • Kayaderosseras Creek
  • Batten Kill
  • Moses Kill
  • Champlain Canal
  • Sacandaga River
    • Paul Creek
    • East Stony Creek
    • West Stony Creek
    • West Branch Sacandaga River
      • Piseco Outlet
        • Fall Stream
    • East Branch Sacandaga River
    • Kunjamuk River
  • Schroon River
  • Boreas River
  • Indian River
    • Miami River
  • Cedar River
  • Opalescent River

Delaware River Basin[]

Delaware drainage basin

• Delaware River
  • Neversink River
    • Basher Kill
  • Mongaup River
    • 

      Neversink drainage basin
  • • North Branch Basket Creek
  • Hoolihan Brook
  • Pea Brook
  • Bouchoux Brook
  • Abe Lord Creek
  • Humphries Brook
  • Blue Mill Stream
  • East Branch Delaware River
    • Beaver Kill
      • Willowemoc Creek
      • Shin Creek
      • Mary Smith Brook
      • Upper Beech Hill Brook
      • Alder Creek (Beaver Kill tributary)
      • Black Brook (Beaver Kill tributary)
    • Tremper Kill
    • Platte Kill
  • West Branch Delaware River
    • Oquaga Creek
    • Little Delaware River

Susquehanna River Basin[]

Susquehanna drainage basin

• Susquehanna River
  • Chemung River
    • Cohocton River
    • Tioga River
      • Canisteo River
      • Cowanesque River
        • Troups Creek
  • Cayuta Creek
  • Wappasening Creek
  • Chenango River
    • Tioughnioga River
      • Otselic River
      • Dudley Creek
    • Sangerfield River
  • Snake Creek
  • Unadilla River
    • Butternut Creek
    • Wharton Creek
    • Beaver Creek
  • Carrs Creek
  • Martin Brook
  • Ouleout Creek
    • Treadwell Creek
  • Sand Hill Creek
  • Brier Creek
  • Flax Island Creek
  • Otsdawa Creek
  • Otego Creek
  • Charlotte Creek
  • Schenevus Creek
  • Cherry Valley Creek
  • Burditt Brook
  • Black Brook
  • Chase Creek
  • Oaks Creek
    • Fly Creek
    • Lidell Creek
    • Phinney Creek
  • Red Creek

St. Lawrence River Basin[]

Lake Champlain[]

Lake Champlain drainage basin

• Great Chazy River
• Little Chazy River
• Saranac River
• Ausable River
  • East Branch Ausable River
  • West Branch Ausable River
• Boquet River
• • Poultney River
• Mettawee River

St. Lawrence/Great Lakes drainage basin

St. Lawrence River[]

• Saint Lawrence River
  • Chateauguay River
  • • Little Trout River
  • St. Regis River
    • • Windfall Brook
    • • Osgood River
    • 

      Raquette drainage basin
  • Raquette River
    • Bog River
    • Cold River
    • Marion River
  • Grass River
    • Little River
    • Harrison Creek
    • North Branch Grass River
    • Middle Branch Grass River
    • South Branch Grass River
  • Oswegatchie River
    • Indian River
    • West Branch Oswegatchie River
      • Middle Branch Oswegatchie River
        • Palmer Creek

Lake Ontario[]

Black drainage basin

• Black River
  • Deer River
  • Beaver River
  • Independence River
  • Roaring Brook
  • Otter Creek
  • Moose River
    • Middle Branch Moose River
      • North Branch Moose River
    • South Branch Moose River
      • Indian River
• • South Sandy Creek
• Salmon River
• Little Salmon River
  • North Branch Little Salmon River
  • South Branch Little Salmon River

Oswego River drainage basin

Butternut Creek, Onondaga County

• Oswego River
  • Oneida River
    • Oneida Lake:
      • Chittenango Creek
        • Limestone Creek
          • Butternut Creek
      • Oneida Creek
      • Fish Creek
  • Seneca River
    • Onondaga Lake:
      • Ninemile Creek
      • Onondaga Creek
    • Skaneateles Creek
    • Owasco Outlet
    • Clyde River
      • Canandaigua Outlet
        • Flint Creek
        • Canandaigua Lake:
      • Ganargua Creek
      • Sucker Brook
    • Cayuga Lake:
      • Trumansburg Creek
      • Taughannock Creek
      • Salmon Creek
      • Fall Creek
        • Virgil Creek
      • Cayuga Inlet
        • Six Mile Creek
          • Enfield Creek
          • Buttermilk Creek
    • Seneca Lake:
      • Keuka Lake Outlet
      • Catharine Creek
• Sterling Creek
• Irondequoit Creek

Genesee drainage basin

• Genesee River
  • Oatka Creek
  • Honeoye Creek
  • Canaseraga Creek
  • Wiscoy Creek
• Oak Orchard Creek
• Johnson Creek
• Eighteen Mile Creek
• Niagara River
  • Tonawanda Creek
    • Ellicott Creek
  • Scajaquada Creek

Lake Erie[]

• Buffalo River
  • Cazenovia Creek
  • Cayuga Creek (Erie County, New York)
  • Buffalo Creek
• Eighteen Mile Creek
• Cattaraugus Creek
  • • Mansfield Creek
• Canadaway Creek
• Chautauqua Creek
• Twentymile Creek

Mississippi River Basin[]

• Mississippi River
  • Ohio River
    • Allegheny River
      • French Creek
      • Brokenstraw Creek
      • Conewango Creek
        • • Chadakoin River
      • Little Valley Creek
      • Great Valley Creek
      • Dodge Creek
      • Oswayo Creek

Alphabetically[]

See also[]

• List of waterways
• List of canals in the United States
• List of rivers in the United States

External links[]

• New York Streamflow Data from the USGS

References[]

• USGS Geographic Names Information Service
• USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of New York (1974)