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This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of New York.
By drainage basin[edit]
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)[edit]
- Housatonic River (CT)
- Norwalk River (CT)
- Rippowam River
- Mianus River
- Byram River
- Blind Brook
- Mamaroneck River
- Hutchinson River
Long Island[edit]
- 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[edit]
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)
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Lake Champlain[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Saint Lawrence River
Lake Ontario[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Buffalo River
- Eighteen Mile Creek
- Cattaraugus Creek
- Canadaway Creek
- Chautauqua Creek
- Twentymile Creek
- Silver Creek
- Big Sister Creek
Mississippi River Basin[edit]
- Mississippi River
Alphabetically[edit]
- 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 (Onondaga County)
- 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 River 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)
- Ninemile Creek (Mohawk River tributary)
- Ninemile Creek (Onondaga Lake)
- 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[edit]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of New York (1974)
