# 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 River
** Hull Creek
** Coan River
** Yeocomico River
*** Northwest Yeocomico River
*** South Yeocomico River
*** West Yeocomico River
** Lower Machodoc Creek
** Nomini Creek
** Popes Creek
** Mattox Creek
** Rosier Creek
** Upper Machodoc Creek
** Potomac Creek
*** Accokeek Creek
** Aquia Creek
** Chopawamsic Creek
** Quantico Creek
** Neabsco Creek
** Occoquan River
*** Massey Creek
*** Sandy Run
*** Stillwell Run
*** Bull Run
**** Popes Head Creek
**** Cub Run
**** Little Bull Run
**** Foley Branch
*** Cedar Run
*** Broad Run
**** Kettle Run
** Pohick Creek
** Accotink Creek
** Dogue Creek
** Little Hunting Creek
** Hunting Creek
*** Cameron Run
**** Holmes Run
** Four Mile Run
*** Lubber Run
** Pimmit Run
** Difficult Run
** Sugarland Run
** Broad Run
** Goose Creek
*** Little River
*** North Fork Goose Creek
**** Beaverdam Creek
** Catoctin Creek
*** North Fork Catoctin Creek
*** South Fork Catoctin Creek
** Shenandoah River Shenandoah drainage basin
*** North Fork Shenandoah River
**** Passage Creek
**** Cedar Creek
**** Stony Creek
**** Mill Creek
**** Smith Creek
**** Linville Creek
**** Shoemaker River
**** Little Dry River
**** German River
***** Cold Spring River
*** South Fork Shenandoah River
**** Hawksbill Creek
**** South River
***** Back Creek
**** North River
***** Middle River
****** Christians Creek
******* Folly Mills Creek
***** Naked Creek
***** Cooks Creek
***** Dry River
****** Muddy Creek
***** Beaver Creek
****** Briery Branch
***** Little River
** Opequon Creek
*** Mill Creek
*** Abrams Creek
*** Red Bud Run
** 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 River
** Urbanna Creek
** Lagrange Creek
** Parrotts Creek
** Corrotoman River
** Totuskey Creek
** Piscataway Creek
** Hoskins Creek
** Cat Point Creek
** Occupacia Creek
** Rapidan River
*** Mine Run
*** Robinson River
**** Rose River
*** South River
*** Conway River
*** Staunton River
** Mountain Run
** Hazel River
*** Thornton River
**** Rush River
***** Covington River
**** Piney River
*** Hughes River
** Jordan River
* Piankatank River
** Dragon Swamp
* East River
* North River
* Ware River
* Severn River
* York River
** Perrin River
** Queen Creek
** Poropotank River
** Mattaponi River
*** Maracossic Creek
*** South River
**** Motto River
*** Matta River
**** Mat River
**** Ta River
*** Poni River
**** Po River
**** Ni River
** Pamunkey River
*** South Anna River
**** Newfound River
**** Taylors Creek
*** North Anna River
**** Little River
**** Pamunkey Creek
**** Contrary Creek
* 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
**** Brewers Creek
*** Pagan River
*** Warwick River
*** Lawnes Creek
*** Skiffes Creek
*** College Creek
*** Grays Creek
*** Chickahominy River
**** Diascund Creek
*** Upper Chippokes Creek
*** Wards 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
*** Deep Creek
*** Muddy Creek
*** Willis River
**** Little Willis River
*** Byrd Creek
*** Rivanna River
**** Mechunk Creek
**** Buck Island Creek
**** North Fork Rivanna River
***** Lynch River
***** Roach River
**** South Fork Rivanna River
***** Mechums River
***** Moormans River
****** Doyles River
*** Slate River
**** North River
*** Hardware River
*** Rockfish River
*** Tye River
**** Rucker Run
**** Buffalo River
**** Piney River
***** Little Piney River
**** South Fork Tye River
**** North Fork Tye River
*** David Creek
*** Beaver Creek
*** Blackwater Creek
**** Ivy Creek
*** Harris Creek
*** Pedlar River
*** Maury River
**** Buffalo Creek
***** North Buffalo Creek
***** South Buffalo Creek
**** South River
***** Irish Creek
***** Saint Marys River
**** Whistle Creek
**** Kerrs Creek
**** Hays Creek
**** Little Calfpasture River
**** Calfpasture River
***** Mill Creek (Calfpasture River tributary)
*** Cedar Creek (James River tributary)
*** Catawba Creek
*** Craig Creek
**** Johns Creek
*** Mill Creek (James River tributary)
*** Sinking Creek
*** Cowpasture River
**** Stuart Run
**** Bullpasture River
*** Jackson River
**** Potts Creek
**** Dunlap Creek
***** Ogle Creek (Virginia)
**** Cedar Creek (Jackson River tributary)
**** Back Creek
***** Little Back Creek
* Lynnhaven River

### Atlantic Ocean south of Chesapeake Bay

* North Landing River
** Pocaty River
* Northwest River (Virginia)
* Chowan River (NC)
** Meherrin River
*** Fountains Creek
*** Flat Rock Creek
*** North Meherrin River
**** Reedy Creek
*** South Meherrin River
**** Middle Meherrin River
** Somerton Creek
** Blackwater River
** Nottoway River
*** Mill Creek
*** Nottoway Swamp
*** Assamoosick Swamp
*** Three Creek
*** Raccoon Creek
*** Hunting Quarter Swamp
*** Rowanty Creek
*** Stony Creek
**** Sappony 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 River (or Staunton River)
** Allen Creek (Roanoke River tributary)
** Island Creek
** Grassy Creek
** Bluestone Creek
*** Little Bluestone Creek
** Dan River
*** Line Branch
*** Aarons Creek
**** North Fork
**** Big Branch
**** Perkins Branch
**** Big Mountain Branch
**** Mountain Branch
**** Wolfpit Run
*** 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
***** Little Terrible Creek
**** Kents Creek
**** Polecat Creek
***** Little Polecat Creek
**** Sandy Creek
***** Johns Run
***** Lick Branch
***** Bar Branch
***** Pine Creek
***** Sweden Fork
****** Johns Run
**** Bye Creek
**** Bradley Creek
**** Runaway Creek
**** Elkhorn Creek
**** Brush Creek
**** Squirrel Creek
**** Allen Creek
***** Blacks Creek
***** Peters Creek
**** Bird Creek
**** Stinking River
***** Flyblow Creek
***** Dry Branch
***** Maggotty Creek
***** North Fork Stinking River
***** West Fork Stinking River
**** Shockoe Creek
**** Whitethorn Creek
***** Dry Branch
***** Georges Creek
***** Dry Branch
***** Mill Creek
****** Poplar Branch
***** Long Branch
**** Cherrystone Creek
***** Little Cherrystone Creek
***** Tanyard Branch
***** Green Rock Branch
***** Whites Branch
***** Roaring Fork
***** Pole Bridge Branch
**** White Oak Creek
***** Dry Fork
**** Pudding Creek
***** Tompkins Branch
**** Bearskin Creek
***** Lick Branch
***** Bolin Branch
***** Little Bearskin Creek
***** Hemp Fork
**** Strawberry Creek
***** Morris Branch
**** Robins Branch
**** Wet Sleeve Creek
**** Mitchell Branch
*** Chatman Branch
*** Grassy Creek
*** Perrin Creek
*** Reedy Creek
*** Poplar Creek
*** Pond Branch
*** Miry Creek
*** Lawsons Creek
**** Stokes Creek
***** Bowle Spring Branch
**** Jerimy Creek
**** Butrum Creek
**** Long Branch
*** Country Line Creek
*** Sandy River
*** Cascade Creek
*** Smith River
**** Leatherwood Creek
*** Mayo River
**** North Mayo River
**** South Mayo River
***** Russell Creek
*** Little Dan River
**** Browns Dan River
** Difficult Creek
** Roanoke Creek
** Cub Creek
** Falling River
*** Little Falling River
*** Mollys Creek
*** South Fork Falling River
** Straightstone Creek
** Seneca Creek
*** West Little Seneca Creek
*** East Little Seneca Creek
** Otter River
** Big Otter River
*** Little Otter River
** Goose Creek (Roanoke River tributary)
** Pigg River
*** Snow Creek
*** Big Chestnut Creek
** Blackwater River
*** Maggodee Creek
** Back Creek
** Tinker Creek
** North Fork Roanoke River
** South Fork Roanoke River
*** Goose Creek (South Fork Roanoke River tributary)
* 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
**** Lovills Creek
***** Halls Branch
***** Elk Spur Branch
***** Waterfall Branch
**** Johnson Creek
***** East Fork Johnson Creek
**** Clarks Creek
***** Double Spring Branch
***** Long Branch
**** Owens Branch
**** Doe Run Creek
**** Birds Branch
***** Dry Run
**** Grogen Branch
**** Kings Run
**** Sun Run
**** Thompson Creek
*** Fisher River
**** Gully Creek

### Mississippi River
#### Tennessee River

* Tennessee River (TN)
** Clinch River
*** Powell River
**** Indian Creek
**** Martin Creek
**** Wallen Creek
**** North Fork Powell River
**** South Fork Powell River
*** North Fork Clinch River
*** Copper Creek
*** Stock Creek
*** Guest River
*** Little River
*** Big Creek
*** Indian Creek
** Holston River (TN)
*** North Fork Holston River
**** Possum Creek
**** Big Moccasin Creek
**** Laurel Creek (North Fork Holston River tributary)
*** South Fork Holston River
**** Beaver Creek
**** Middle Fork Holston River
**** Laurel Creek (South Fork Holston River tributary)
***** Whitetop Laurel Creek

#### Ohio River

* Ohio River (KY, WV)
** Big Sandy River (KY)
*** Levisa Fork
**** Russell Fork
***** Pound River
****** Cranes Nest River
***** McClure River
**** Home Creek
**** Slate Creek
**** Dismal Creek (tributary of Levisa Fork)
*** Tug Fork
**** Knox Creek
**** Dry Fork
** Kanawha River (WV)
*** New River
**** Bluestone River
**** East River
**** Wolf Creek
**** Walker Creek
***** Little Walker Creek
***** Kimberling Creek
**** Sinking Creek
**** Little River (New River tributary)
***** Pine Creek (Floyd County, Virginia)
***** West Fork Little River
**** Peak Creek
**** Big Reed Island Creek
***** Cripple Creek
***** Crooked Creek
****** Beaverdam Creek
****** Glade Creek
***** Grassy Creek
***** Greasy Creek
****** Big Branch
***** Laurel Fork (Virginia)
***** Little Snake Creek
****** Bear Creek
***** Pine Creek
***** Pipestem Branch
***** Snake Creek
***** Sulphur Spring Branch
***** Stone Mountain Creek
**** Burks Fork
**** Little Reed Island Creek
**** Reed Creek
**** Chestnut Creek
**** Elk Creek
**** Little River (North Carolina–Virginia)
**** Fox Creek
**** Wilson Creek
**** North Fork New River
***** Helton Creek
***** Big Horse Creek

## Alphabetically

* Aarons Creek
* Abrams Creek
* Accokeek Creek
* Accotink Creek
* Allen Creek (Roanoke River tributary)
* Appomattox River
* Aquia Creek
* Ararat River
* Back Creek (Jackson River tributary)
* Back Creek (Potomac River tributary)
* Back Creek (Roanoke River tributary)
* Back Creek (South River tributary)
* Back River
* Bailey Creek
* Banister River
* Beaver Creek (James River tributary)
* Beaver Creek (North River tributary)
* Beaver Creek (South Fork Holston River tributary)
* Beaverdam Creek
* Bennett Creek
* Big Chestnut Creek
* Big Creek
* Big Horse Creek
* Big Moccasin 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 Creek
* Bluestone River
* Bluewing Creek
* Bowes Branch
* Brewers Creek
* Briery Branch
* Broad Run (Occoquan River tributary)
* Broad Run (Potomac River tributary)
* Browns Dan River
* Buck Island Creek
* Buffalo Creek (Appomattox River tributary)
* Buffalo Creek (Maury River tributary)
* Buffalo River
* Bull Run
* Bullpasture River
* Burke Fork
* Bush River
* Byrd Creek
* Cabin Creek
* Cameron Run
* Carys Creek (Little Nottoway River tributary)
* Cascade Creek
* Catawba Creek
* Catoctin Creek
* Calfpasture River
* Cat Point Creek
* Cedar Creek (Jackson River tributary)
* 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
* Cooks Creek
* Copper Creek
* Corrotoman River
* Country Line Creek
* Covington River
* Cowpasture River
* Craig Creek
* Cranes Nest River
* Cripple Creek
* Crooked Creek
* Cub Creek
* Cub Run
* Dan River
* David Creek
* Deep Creek (Appomattox River tributary)
* Deep Creek (James River tributary)
* Diascund Creek
* Difficult Creek
* Difficult Run
* Dismal Creek (tributary of Levisa Fork)
* Doe Run Creek (Ararat River tributary)
* Dogue Creek
* Doyles River
* Dreaming Creek
* Dry Fork
* Dry Creek
* Dry River
* Dunlap Creek
* East Little Seneca Creek
* East River (Giles County)
* East River (Mathews County)
* Eastern Branch Elizabeth River
* Elizabeth River
* Elk Creek
* Falling Creek
* Falling River
* Fisher River
* Flat Branch
* Flat Creek
* Flat Rock Creek
* Folly Mills Creek
* Fountains Creek
* Four Mile Run
* Fox Creek
* German River
* Goose Creek (Potomac River tributary)
* Goose Creek (Roanoke River tributary)
* Goose Creek (South Fork Roanoke River tributary)
* Grassy Creek
* Grays Creek
* Great Wicomico River
* Grogen Branch
* Guest River
* Halfway Creek
* Hampton River
* Hardware River
* Harris Creek
* Harris River
* Hawksbill Creek
* Hays Creek
* Hazel River
* Helton Creek
* Hilly Creek
* Hogue Creek
* Home Creek
* Horsepen Creek (Little Nottoway River tributary)
* Hoskins Creek
* Hudson Branch
* Hughes River
* Hull Creek
* Hunting Creek
* Hyco River
* Indian Creek (Clinch River tributary)
* Indian Creek (Powell River tributary)
* Indian River
* Irish Creek
* Isaacs Creek
* Island Creek
* Ivy Creek
* Jackson River
* Jacks Branch (Little Nottoway River tributary)
* James River
* Johns Creek
* Jordan River
* Kerrs Creek
* Kettle Run
* Kimberling Creek
* Kings Run (Ararat River tributary)
* Knotts Creek
* Knox Creek
* Lafayette River
* Lagrange Creek
* Larkin Branch
* Laurel Creek (North Fork Holston River tributary)
* Laurel Creek (South Fork Holston River tributary)
* Laurel Fork
* Lawnes Creek
* Lazaretto Creek (Little Nottoway River tributary)
* Leatherwood Creek
* Levisa Fork
* Linville Creek
* Little Back Creek
* Little Bluestone Creek
* Little Bull Run
* 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 Reed Island Creek
* Little River (Clinch River tributary)
* Little River (Goose Creek tributary)
* Little River (New River tributary)
* Little River (North Anna River tributary)
* Little River (North Carolina–Virginia)
* Little River (North River tributary)
* Little Walker Creek
* Little Wicomico River
* Little Willis River
* Long Branch (Little Nottoway River tributary)
* Lovills Creek
* Lower Machodoc Creek
* Lynch River
* Lynnhaven River
* McClure River
* Machipongo River
* Maggodee Creek
* Mallorys Creek (Little Nottoway River tributary)
* Maracossic Creek
* Martin Creek
* Mat River
* Matta River
* Mattaponi River
* Mattox Creek
* Maury River
* Mayo Creek
* Mayo River
* Mechums River
* Mechunk Creek
* Meherrin River
* Middle Fork Holston River
* Middle Meherrin River
* Middle River
* Mill Creek (Calfpasture River tributary)
* Mill Creek (James River tributary)
* Mill Creek (North Fork Shenandoah River tributary)
* Mill Creek (Opequon Creek tributary)
* Mine Run
* Mollys Creek
* Moormans River
* Morris Branch
* Mosquito Creek
* Motto River
* Mountain Run
* Muddy Creek (Dry River tributary)
* Muddy Creek (James River tributary)
* Naked Creek
* Namozine Creek
* Nansemond River
* Neabsco Creek
* Tims River
* New River
* Newfound River
* Ni River
* Nomini Creek
* North Anna River
* North Buffalo Creek
* North Fork Catoctin Creek
* North Fork Clinch River
* North Fork Goose Creek
* North Fork Holston River
* North Fork Powell River
* North Fork Rivanna River
* North Fork Roanoke River
* North Fork Shenandoah River
* North Fork Tye 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
* Occupacia Creek
* Ogle Creek (Virginia)
* Opequon Creek
* Owens Branch (Ararat River tributary)
* Pagan River
* Pamunkey Creek
* Pamunkey River
* Parrotts Creek
* Passage Creek
* Peak 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
* Popes Head Creek
* Poquoson River
* Poropotank River
* Possum Creek
* Potomac Creek
* Potomac River
* Potts Creek
* Pound River
* Powell River
* Powhite Creek
* Quantico Creek
* Queen Creek
* Rapidan River
* Rappahannock River
* Red Bud Run
* Reed Creek
* Reed Island Creek
* Reedy Creek
* Rivanna River
* Roach River
* Roanoke Creek
* Roanoke River (or Staunton River)
* Robinson River
* Rockfish River
* Rose River
* Rosier Creek
* Rowanty Creek
* Rucker Run
* Rush River
* Russell Creek
* Russell Fork
* Saint Marys River
* Sandy Creek
* Sandy River (Bush River tributary)
* Sandy River (Dan River tributary)
* Sappony Creek
* Seneca Creek
* Severn River
* Shenandoah River
* Shoemaker River
* Sinking Creek (James River tributary)
* Sinking Creek (New River tributary)
* Skiffes Creek
* Slate Creek
* Slate River
* Sleepy Creek
* Smith Creek
* Smith River
* Snake Creek
* Snow Creek
* Somerton Creek
* South Anna River
* Stave Run
* South Branch Potomac River
* South Buffalo Creek
* South Fork Catoctin Creek
* South Fork Clinch River
* South Fork Elizabeth River
* South Fork Falling River
* South Fork Holston River
* South Fork Powell River
* South Fork Rivanna River
* South Fork Roanoke River
* South Fork Shenandoah River
* South Fork South Branch Potomac River
* South Fork Tye 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)
* Stewarts Creek
* Stinking River
* Stock Creek
* Stony Creek (North Fork Shenandoah River tributary)
* Stony Creek (Nottoway River tributary)
* Straightstone Creek
* Stuart Run
* 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
* Upper Chippokes Creek
* Upper Machodoc Creek
* Urbanna Creek
* Walker Creek
* Wallen Creek
* Wards Creek
* Ware River
* Warwick River
* West Fork Little River
* West Little Seneca Creek
* West Yeocomico River
* Western Branch Elizabeth River
* Whetstone Creek (Little Nottoway River tributary)
* Whistle Creek
* Whitetop Laurel Creek
* Willis River
* Wilson Creek
* Wolf Creek
* Yeocomico River
* York River