List of rivers of West Virginia
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
List of West Virginia rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers. There are also smaller streams (i.e., branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in the state. Exclusive of major tributaries, there are about 46 named rivers in West Virginia. Though relatively few in number, rivers have traditionally provided easy avenues of transportation through the rough terrain of the Mountain State, first by Native Americans and later by European settlers. Even today, the larger rivers transport large volumes of commercial goods, while the smaller ones provide recreational opportunities such as canoeing, fishing, swimming, and white-water rafting.
By tributary[]
- Ohio River
- Monongahela River
- Tygart Valley River
- Leading Creek
- Middle Fork River
- Buckhannon River
- West Fork River
- Stonecoal Creek
- Kincheloe Creek
- Hackers Creek
- Elk Creek
- Simpson Creek
- Tenmile Creek
- Buffalo Creek
- Paw Paw Creek
- Deckers Creek
- Cheat River
- Shavers Fork
- Black Fork
- Dry Fork
- Blackwater River
- Little Blackwater River
- North Fork Blackwater River
- Horseshoe Run
- Big Sandy Creek
- , in Pennsylvania and West Virginia
- Dunkard Creek
- Youghiogheny River
- Tygart Valley River
- Muchmores Run
- Tomlinson Run
- Whiteoak Run
- North Fork Tomlinson Run
- South Fork Tomlinson Run
- Deep Gut Run
- Hardin Run
- Holbert Run
- Kings Creek
- Turkeyfoot Run
- North Fork Kings Creek
- Lawrence Run
- Lick Run
- Harmon Creek
- Sappingtons Run
- Alexanders Run
- Mechling Run
- Cross Creek
- Bosley Run
- Ebenezer Run
- North Potrock Run
- Potrock Run
- Scott Run
- Parmar Run
- Buffalo Creek
- Painters Run
- Greens Run
- Titt Run
- Pierce Run
- Kimlin Run
- Grog Run
- Mingo Run
- Hukill Run
- Hogtan Run
- Stotts Run
- Logan Run
- Castleman Run
- Longs Run
- Cascade Run
- Camp Run
- Sugarcamp Run
- Short Creek
- Girty Run
- Waddles Run
- Glenns Run
- Wheeling Creek
- Long Run
- Enlow Fork
- Dunkard Fork
- Little Wheeling Creek
- Boggs Run
- Grave Creek
- Fishing Creek
- Middle Island Creek
- Little Kanawha River
- Right Fork Little Kanawha River
- Saltlick Creek
- Leading Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Steer Creek
- Left Fork Steer Creek
- Right Fork Steer Creek
- West Fork Little Kanawha River
- Spring Creek
- Reedy Creek
- Hughes River
- North Fork Hughes River
- South Fork Hughes River
- Walker Creek
- Tygart Creek
- Worthington Creek
- Pond Creek
- Sandy Creek
- Mill Creek
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- Kanawha River
- New River
- East River
- Indian Creek
- Bluestone River
- Little Bluestone River
- Brush Creek
- Greenbrier River
- East Fork Greenbrier River
- West Fork Greenbrier River
- Leatherbark Run
- Sitlington Creek
- Knapp Creek
- Anthony Creek
- Howard Creek
- Second Creek
- East Fork Greenbrier River
- Glade Creek
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- Gauley River
- Williams River
- Cranberry River
- Cherry River
- Hominy Creek
- Meadow River
- Loop Creek
- Armstrong Creek
- Smithers Creek
- Paint Creek
- Kellys Creek
- Cabin Creek
- Witcher Creek
- Lens Creek
- Campbells Creek
- Elk River
- Baltimore Run
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- Holly River
- Left Fork Holly River
- Right Fork Holly River
- Birch River
- Little Birch River
- Blue Creek
- Twomile Creek
- Davis Creek
- Coal River
- Big Coal River
- Little Coal River
- Big Coal River
- Pocatalico River
- New River
- Guyandotte River
- Twelvepole Creek
- Big Sandy River
- Tug Fork
- Elkhorn Creek
- Dry Fork
- Fourpole Creek
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- Tug Fork
- Monongahela River
- Ohio River
Chesapeake Bay[]
- James River (VA)
- Jackson River (VA)
- Cowpasture River (VA)
- Potomac River
- South Branch Potomac River
- North Fork South Branch Potomac River
- Lunice Creek
- South Fork South Branch Potomac River
- Mill Run
- Mill Creek (South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Big Run (South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Buffalo Creek
- North Branch Potomac River
- Stony River
- Abram Creek
- New Creek
- Limestone Run
- Patterson Creek
- Dans Run
- Green Spring Run
- Little Cacapon River
- North Fork Little Cacapon River
- South Fork Little Cacapon River
- Cacapon River
- Sir Johns Run
- Warm Spring Run
- Sleepy Creek
- Cherry Run
- Back Creek
- Opequon Creek
- Mill Creek
- Middle Creek
- Tuscarora Creek
- Shenandoah River
- South Branch Potomac River
Alphabetically[]
- Abram Creek
- Alum Creek (Coal River tributary)
- Alum Creek (Tug Fork tributary)
- Anthony Creek
- Armstrong Creek
- Arnold Creek
- Back Creek
- Baltimore Run
- Barkers Creek
- Bearwallow Creek
- Big Coal River
- Big Run (North Fork South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Big Run (South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Big Sandy Creek (Cheat River tributary)
- Big Sandy River
- Birch River
- Black Fork
- Blackwater River
- Blue Creek
- Bluestone River
- Bonds Creek
- Buckeye Creek
- Buckhannon River
- Buffalo Creek (Guyandotte River tributary)
- Buffalo Creek (Monongahela River tributary)
- Buffalo Creek (Ohio River tributary)
- Buffalo Creek (South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Cabin Creek
- Cacapon River
- Campbells Creek
- Capon Springs Run
- Cedar Creek
- Cheat River
- Cherry River
- Cherry Run
- Clear Fork (Guyandotte River tributary)
- Coal River
- Copperas Mine Fork
- Cranberry River
- Cross Creek
- Dans Run
- Davis Creek
- Deckers Creek
- Dillons Run
- Dry Fork (Cheat River tributary)
- Dry Fork (Tug Fork tributary)
- Dunkard Creek
- Dunkard Fork
- East Fork Greenbrier River
- East River
- Edwards Run
- Elk Creek
- Elk Fork (Point Pleasant Creek tributary)
- Elk River
- Elkhorn Creek
- Enlow Fork
- Fishing Creek
- Flint Run
- Fourpole Creek
- Gauley River
- Glade Creek
- Glady Fork
- Grassy Lick Run
- Grave Creek
- Green Spring Run
- Greenbrier River
- Guyandotte River
- Hackers Creek
- Harker Run
- Henry Fork
- Holly River
- Hominy Creek
- Horseshoe Run
- Howard Creek
- Huff Creek
- Hughes River
- Indian Creek (Guyandotte River tributary)
- Indian Creek (Middle Island Creek tributary)
- Indian Creek (New River tributary)
- Island Creek
- Kanawha River
- Kellys Creek
- Kettle Creek
- Kincheloe Creek
- Knapp Creek
- Laurel Fork (Cheat River tributary)
- Laurel Fork (Clear Fork Guyandotte River tributary)
- Laurel Fork (North Fork South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Leading Creek (Little Kanawha River tributary)
- Leading Creek (Tygart Valley River tributary)
- Leatherbark Run
- Left Fork Holly River
- Left Fork Steer Creek
- Lens Creek
- Limestone Run
- Little Birch River
- Little Blackwater River
- Little Bluestone River
- Little Cacapon River
- Little Coal River
- Little Kanawha River
- , in Pennsylvania and West Virginia
- , tributary of Big Sandy Creek entirely in West Virginia
- Little Wheeling Creek
- Loop Creek
- Lost River
- Lunice Creek
- McElroy Creek
- McKim Creek
- Meadow Branch
- Meadow River
- Meathouse Fork
- Middle Creek
- Middle Fork River, Tygart Valley River tributary
- Middle Island Creek
- Mill Branch
- Mill Creek (North Fork South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Mill Creek (Opequon Creek tributary)
- Mill Creek (Patterson Creek tributary)
- Mill Creek (South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Mill Creek (western West Virginia)
- Mill Run
- Monongahela River
- Mud River
- Negro Run (West Virginia)
- New Creek
- New River
- North Branch Potomac River
- North Fork Blackwater River
- North Fork Hughes River
- North Fork Little Cacapon River
- North Fork South Branch Potomac River
- North River
- Ohio River
- Opequon Creek
- Paint Creek
- Panther Lick Run
- Patterson Creek
- Paw Paw Creek
- Pinnacle Creek
- Pocatalico River
- Point Pleasant Creek
- Pond Creek
- Pond Fork
- Potomac River
- Potts Creek
- Reedy Creek
- Right Fork Holly River
- Right Fork Little Kanawha River
- Right Fork Steer Creek
- Saltlick Creek (Little Kanawha River tributary)
- Sancho Creek
- Sandy Creek (Ohio River tributary)
- Second Creek
- Seneca Creek
- Shavers Fork
- Shenandoah River
- Short Creek
- Simpson Creek
- Sir Johns Run
- Sitlington Creek
- Slab Fork
- Sleepy Creek
- Smithers Creek
- South Branch Potomac River
- South Fork Hughes River
- South Fork Little Cacapon River
- South Fork South Branch Potomac River
- Spring Creek (Little Kanawha River tributary)
- Spruce Creek
- Spruce Fork
- Steer Creek
- Stonecoal Creek
- Stony River
- Sugar Creek (Middle Island Creek tributary)
- Tearcoat Creek
- Tenmile Creek
- Tilhance Creek
- Toms Fork
- Trout Run
- Tug Fork, tributary of Big Sandy River
- Tuscarora Creek
- Twelvepole Creek
- Twomile Creek
- Tygart Creek
- Tygart Valley River
- Walker Creek
- Warm Spring Run
- West Fork Greenbrier River
- West Fork Little Kanawha River
- West Fork River
- Wheeling Creek
- Williams River
- Winding Gulf
- Witcher Creek
- Worthington Creek
- Youghiogheny River
- Zebs Creek
See also[]
- List of rivers in the United States
- Teays River
- List of islands in West Virginia (with islands in rivers)
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