List of rivers of Virginia
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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.
Atlantic Ocean north of Chesapeake Bay[]
- Cockle Creek
- Machipongo River
Chesapeake Bay[]
- Pocomoke River
Potomac drainage basin
- Potomac River
- Hull Creek
- Coan River
- Yeocomico River
- Northwest Yeocomico River
- South Yeocomico River
- West Yeocomico River
- Popes Creek
- Mattox Creek
- Potomac Creek
- Accokeek Creek
- Aquia Creek
- Chopawamsic Creek
- Quantico Creek
- Neabsco Creek
- Occoquan River
- Pohick Creek
- Accotink Creek
- Dogue Creek
- Little Hunting Creek
- Hunting Creek
- Cameron Run
- Holmes Run
- Cameron Run
- Four Mile Run
- Pimmit Run
- Difficult Run
- Sugarland Run
- Broad Run
- Goose Creek
- Little River
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- Catoctin Creek
- North Fork Catoctin Creek
- South Fork Catoctin Creek
- Shenandoah River
Shenandoah drainage basin- North Fork Shenandoah River
- Passage Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Smith Creek
- Shoemaker River
- Little Dry River
- German River
- South Fork Shenandoah River
- South River
- North River
- Middle River
- Christians Creek
- Dry River
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- Little River
- Middle River
- South River
- North Fork Shenandoah River
- Opequon Creek
- Mill Creek
- Abrams Creek
- Back Creek
- Hogue Creek
- Isaacs Creek
- Sleepy Creek
- South Branch Potomac River
- South Fork South Branch Potomac River
- North Fork South Branch Potomac River
- Laurel Fork
- Little Wicomico River
- Great Wicomico River
Rappahannock drainage basin
- Rappahannock River
- Urbanna Creek
- Lagrange Creek
- Parrotts Creek
- Corrotoman River
- Totuskey Creek
- Piscataway Creek
- Rapidan River
- Robinson River
- Rose River
- South River
- Conway River
- Staunton River
- Robinson River
- Mountain Run
- Hazel River
- Thornton River
- Rush River
- Covington River
- Piney River
- Rush River
- Hughes River
- Thornton River
- Jordan River
- Piankatank River
- East River
- North River
- Ware River
- Severn River
York drainage basin
- York River
- Perrin River
- Poropotank River
- Mattaponi River
- South River
- Motto River
- Matta River
- Mat River
- Ta River
- Poni River
- Po River
- Ni River
- South River
- Pamunkey River
- South Anna River
- Newfound River
- Taylors Creek
- North Anna River
- Little River
- Pamunkey Creek
- Contrary Creek
- South Anna River
- Poquoson River
- Back River
- Harris River
- Hampton Roads
- Hampton River
- Elizabeth River
- Lafayette River
- Western Branch Elizabeth River
- Eastern Branch Elizabeth River
- Indian River
- Southern Branch Elizabeth River
- James River
James drainage basin- Hoffler Creek
- Nansemond River
- Knotts Creek
- Bennett Creek
- Chuckatuck Creek
- Pagan River
- Warwick River
- College Creek
- Grays Creek
- Chickahominy River
- Diascund Creek
- Bailey Creek
- Appomattox River
- Cabin Creek
- Swift Creek
- Namozine Creek
- Deep Creek
- Flat Creek
- Bush River
- Sandy River
- Buffalo Creek
- Falling Creek
- Powhite Creek
- Willis River
- Little Willis River
- Rivanna River
- North Fork Rivanna River
- Lynch River
- Roach River
- South Fork Rivanna River
- Mechums River
- Moormans River
- Doyles River
- North Fork Rivanna River
- Slate River
- North River
- Hardware River
- Rockfish River
- Tye River
- Buffalo River
- Piney River
- Little Piney River
- Blackwater Creek
- Pedlar River
- Maury River
- Buffalo Creek
- North Buffalo Creek
- South Buffalo Creek
- South River
- Saint Marys River
- Kerrs Creek
- Little Calfpasture River
- Calfpasture River
- Buffalo Creek
- Cedar Creek (James River tributary)
- Craig Creek
- Cowpasture River
- Bullpasture River
- Jackson River
- Potts Creek
- Dunlap Creek
- Back Creek
- Lynnhaven River
Atlantic Ocean south of Chesapeake Bay[]
- North Landing River
Chowan drainage basin
- Chowan River (NC)
- Meherrin River
- Blackwater River
- Nottoway River
- Mill Creek
- Nottoway Swamp
- Assamoosick Swamp
- Three Creek
- Raccoon Creek
- Hunting Quarter Swamp
- Rowanty Creek
- Stony Creek
- Sturgeon Creek
- Waqua Creek
- Tommeheton Creek
- Crooked Creek
- Little Nottoway River
- Horsepen Creek
- Jacks Branch
- Whetstone Creek
- Long Branch
- Lazaretto Creek
- Mallorys Creek
- Carys Creek
Roanoke drainage basin
- Roanoke River (or Staunton River)
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- Dan River
- Line Branch
- Aarons Creek
- Hyco River
- Morris Branch
- Flat Branch
- Hilly Creek
- Pensions Branch
- Larkin Branch
- Terrell Branch
- Hudson Branch
- Bluewing Creek
- Halfway Creek
- Dry Creek
- Coleman Creek
- Mayo Creek
- Crutchfield Branch
- Bowes Branch
- Lick Branch
- Banister River
- Gibson Creek
- Wolf Trap Creek
- Myers Creek
- Winn Creek
- Toots Creek
- Terrible Creek
- Kents Creek
- Polecat Creek
- Sandy Creek
- Johns Run
- Lick Branch
- Bar Branch
- Pine Creek
- Sweden Fork
- Bye Creek
- Bradley Creek
- Runaway Creek
- Elkhorn Creek
- Brush Creek
- Squirrel Creek
- Allen Creek
- Bird Creek
- Stinking River
- Shockoe Creek
- Whitethorn Creek
- Cherrystone Creek
- White Oak Creek
- Pudding Creek
- Bearskin Creek
- Strawberry Creek
- Robins Branch
- Wet Sleeve Creek
- Mitchell Branch
- Chatman Branch
- Grassy Creek
- Perrin Creek
- Reedy Creek
- Poplar Creek
- Lawsons Creek
- Sandy River
- Smith River
- Mayo River
- Little Dan River
- Roanoke Creek
- Cub Creek
- Falling River
- Seneca Creek
- Otter River
- Big Otter River
- Goose Creek (Roanoke River tributary)
- Pigg River
- Blackwater River
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- Pee Dee River (NC)
- Yadkin River (NC)
- Ararat River
- Stewarts Creek
- Pauls Creek
- Brushy Fork
- Little Pauls Creek
- Garners Creek
- Stony Creek
- Huntington Branch
- Naked Run
- Flat Creek
- Turkey Creek
- North Fork Stewarts Creek
- South Fork Stewarts Creek
- Pauls Creek
- Lovills Creek
- Halls Branch
- Elk Spur Branch
- Waterfall Branch
- Johnson Creek
- Clarks Creek
- Owens Branch
- Doe Run Creek
- Birds Branch
- Grogen Branch
- Kings Run
- Sun Run
- Thompson Creek
- Stewarts Creek
- Fisher River
- Gully Creek
- Ararat River
- Yadkin River (NC)
Mississippi River[]
Tennessee River[]
Clinch drainage basin
- Tennessee River (TN)
- Clinch River
- Powell River
- North Fork Clinch River
- Guest River
- Little River
- Powell River
- Holston River (TN)
- North Fork Holston River
- Possum Creek
- South Fork Holston River
- Middle Fork Holston River
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- North Fork Holston River
- Clinch River
Ohio River[]
- Ohio River (KY, WV)
- Big Sandy River (KY)
- Levisa Fork
- Russell Fork
- Pound River
- Cranes Nest River
- McClure River
- Pound River
- Home Creek
- Russell Fork
- Tug Fork
- Dry Fork
- Levisa Fork
- Big Sandy River (KY)
New River drainage basin
- Kanawha River (WV)
- New River
- Bluestone River
- East River
- Wolf Creek
- Walker Creek
- Sinking Creek
- Little River (New River tributary)
- Big Reed Island Creek
- Cripple Creek
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- Sulphur Spring Branch
- Chestnut Creek
- North Fork New River
- New River
- Kanawha River (WV)
Alphabetically[]
- Abrams Creek
- Accokeek Creek
- Accotink Creek
- Appomattox River
- Aquia Creek
- Ararat River
- Back Creek (Jackson River tributary)
- Back Creek (Potomac River tributary)
- Back River
- Bailey Creek
- Banister River
- Bennett Creek
- Big Otter River
- Big Reed Island Creek
- Birds Branch (Ararat River tributary)
- Blackwater Creek
- Blackwater River (Chowan River tributary)
- Blackwater River (Roanoke River tributary)
- Bluestone River
- Bluewing Creek
- Bowes Branch
- Broad Run (Occoquan River tributary)
- Broad Run (Potomac River tributary)
- Browns Dan River
- Buffalo Creek (Appomattox River tributary)
- Buffalo Creek (Maury River tributary)
- Buffalo River
- Bull Run
- Bullpasture River
- Bush River
- Cabin Creek
- Cameron Run
- Carys Creek (Little Nottoway River tributary)
- Catoctin Creek
- Calfpasture River
- Cedar Creek (James River tributary)
- Cedar Creek (North Fork Shenandoah River tributary)
- Cedar Run (Occoquan River tributary)
- Chickahominy River
- Chopawamsic Creek
- Chestnut Creek
- Christians Creek
- Chuckatuck Creek
- Clarks Creek (Ararat River tributary)
- Clinch River
- Coan River
- Cockle Creek
- Cold Spring River
- Coleman Creek
- College Creek
- Conway River
- Corrotoman River
- Covington River
- Cowpasture River
- Craig Creek
- Cranes Nest River
- Cripple Creek
- Cub Creek
- Dan River
- Deep Creek (Appomattox River tributary)
- Diascund Creek
- Difficult Run
- Doe Run Creek (Ararat River tributary)
- Dogue Creek
- Doyles River
- Dreaming Creek
- Dry Fork
- Dry Creek
- Dry River
- Dunlap Creek
- East River (Giles County)
- East River (Mathews County)
- Eastern Branch Elizabeth River
- Elizabeth River
- Falling Creek
- Falling River
- Fisher River
- Flat Branch
- Flat Creek
- Fountains Creek
- Four Mile Run
- German River
- Goose Creek (Potomac River tributary)
- Goose Creek (Roanoke River tributary)
- Grays Creek
- Great Wicomico River
- Grogen Branch
- Guest River
- Halfway Creek
- Hampton River
- Hardware River
- Harris River
- Hazel River
- Hilly Creek
- Hogue Creek
- Home Creek
- Horsepen Creek (Little Nottoway River tributary)
- Hudson Branch
- Hughes River
- Hull Creek
- Hunting Creek
- Hyco River
- Indian River
- Isaacs Creek
- Jackson River
- Jacks Branch (Little Nottoway River tributary)
- James River
- Jordan River
- Kerrs Creek
- Kings Run (Ararat River tributary)
- Knotts Creek
- Lafayette River
- Lagrange Creek
- Larkin Branch
- Laurel Fork
- Lazaretto Creek (Little Nottoway River tributary)
- Levisa Fork
- 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 River (Clinch River tributary)
- Little River (Goose Creek tributary)
- Little River (New River tributary)
- Little River (North Anna River tributary)
- Little River (North River tributary)
- Little Wicomico River
- Little Willis River
- Long Branch (Little Nottoway River tributary)
- Lovills Creek
- Lynch River
- Lynnhaven River
- McClure River
- Machipongo River
- Mallorys Creek (Little Nottoway River tributary)
- Mat River
- Matta River
- Mattaponi River
- Mattox Creek
- Maury River
- Mayo Creek
- Mayo River
- Mechums River
- Meherrin River
- Middle Fork Holston River
- Middle Meherrin River
- Middle River
- Mill Creek (Opequon Creek tributary)
- Moormans River
- Morris Branch
- Mosquito Creek
- Motto River
- Mountain Run
- Namozine Creek
- Nansemond River
- Neabsco Creek
- Tims River
- New River
- Newfound River
- Ni River
- North Anna River
- North Buffalo Creek
- North Fork Catoctin Creek
- North Fork Clinch River
- North Fork Holston River
- North Fork Rivanna River
- North Fork Shenandoah River
- North Landing River
- North Mayo River
- North Meherrin River
- North River (Mobjack Bay)
- North River (Slate River tributary)
- North River (South Fork Shenandoah River tributary)
- Northwest River
- Northwest Yeocomico River
- Nottoway River
- Occoquan River
- Opequon Creek
- Owens Branch (Ararat River tributary)
- Pagan River
- Pamunkey Creek
- Pamunkey River
- Parrotts Creek
- Passage Creek
- Pedlar River
- Pensions Branch
- Perrin River
- Piankatank River
- Pigg River
- Pimmit Run
- Piney River (Thornton River tributary)
- Piney River (Tye River tributary)
- Piscataway Creek
- Po River
- Pocaty River
- Pocomoke River
- Pohick Creek
- Poni River
- Popes Creek
- Poquoson River
- Poropotank River
- Possum Creek
- Potomac Creek
- Potomac River
- Potts Creek
- Pound River
- Powell River
- Powhite Creek
- Quantico Creek
- Rapidan River
- Rappahannock River
- Reed Creek
- Reed Island Creek
- Rivanna River
- Roach River
- Roanoke Creek
- Roanoke River (or Staunton River)
- Robinson River
- Rockfish River
- Rose River
- Rowanty Creek
- Rush River
- Russell Fork
- Saint Marys River
- Sandy Creek
- Sandy River (Bush River tributary)
- Sandy River (Dan River tributary)
- Seneca Creek
- Severn River
- Shenandoah River
- Shoemaker River
- Sinking Creek (New River tributary)
- Slate River
- Sleepy Creek
- Smith Creek
- Smith River
- South Anna River
- Stave Run
- South Branch Potomac River
- South Buffalo Creek
- South Fork Catoctin Creek
- South Fork Clinch River
- South Fork Holston River
- South Fork Rivanna River
- South Fork Shenandoah River
- South Fork South Branch Potomac River
- South Mayo River
- South Meherrin River
- South River (Mattaponi River tributary)
- South River (Maury River tributary)
- South River (Rapidan River tributary)
- South River (Shenandoah River tributary)
- South Yeocomico River
- Southern Branch Elizabeth River
- Staunton River (Rapidan River tributary)
- Staunton River (or Roanoke River)
- Stinking River
- Sugarland Run
- Sun Run (Ararat River tributary)
- Swift Creek
- Ta River
- Taylors Creek
- Tear Wallet Creek
- Terrell Branch
- Thompson Creek (Ararat River tributary)
- Thornton River
- Three Creek
- Tinker Creek
- Totuskey Creek
- Tug Fork
- Tye River
- Urbanna Creek
- Walker Creek
- Ware River
- Warwick River
- West Yeocomico River
- Western Branch Elizabeth River
- Whetstone Creek (Little Nottoway River tributary)
- Willis River
- Wolf Creek
- Yeocomico River
- York River
See also[]
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- List of rivers of the United States
- List of Chesapeake Bay rivers
References[]
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Virginia (1974)
- Salmon, Emily J.; Edward D. C. Campbell Jr., eds. (1994). The Hornbook of Virginia History (4th ed.). Richmond, VA: Virginia Office of Graphic Communications. ISBN 0-88490-177-7.
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