# List of rivers of Missouri

List of rivers in Missouri (U.S. state).

## By drainage basin

This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.

### Mississippi River
#### Arkansas River

* Mississippi River
** Arkansas River (AR, OK)
*** Neosho River (KS, OK)
**** Elk River
***** Buffalo Creek
***** Indian Creek
***** Big Sugar Creek
***** Little Sugar Creek
**** Spring River
***** Shoal Creek
****** Capps Creek

#### White River

* Mississippi River
** White River
*** Cache River
*** Black River
**** Spring River
***** Warm Fork Spring River
****** Anthony Branch
***** Eleven Point River
**** Current River
***** Sinking Creek
***** Little Black River
***** Jacks Fork
**** Logan Creek
***** Adair Creek
*** North Fork River
**** Bennetts Bayou
**** Bennetts River
**** Bryant Creek
***** Brush Creek
***** Hunter Creek
****** Whites Creek
***** Fox Creek
***** Rippee Creek
***** Spring Creek
**** Clifty Creek
*** Little North Fork White River
*** Beaver Creek
**** Cowskin Creek
***** Prairie Creek
**** Little Beaver Creek
*** James River
**** Crane Creek
**** Finley Creek
**** Pierson Creek
**** Wilsons Creek
***** Jordan Creek
***** Fassnight Creek
*** Kings River
**** Osage Creek
*** Roaring River

#### Mississippi River between the White and Missouri rivers

* Mississippi River
** St. Francis River
*** Little River
**** Castor River
**** Whitewater River
*** Little St. Francis River
** Headwater Diversion Channel
*** Whitewater River
*** Castor River
** Old River
** River aux Vases
** Meramec River
*** Big River
**** Terre Bleue Creek
***** Andrews Branch
*** Bourbeuse River
**** Little Bourbeuse River
*** Little Meramec River
*** Huzzah Creek
**** Courtois Creek
***** Abbott Branch
**** Shoal Creek
*** Dry Fork
** River des Peres

#### Missouri River south of the Kansas River

* Mississippi River
** Missouri River
*** Loutre River
*** Quick Creek
*** Gasconade River
**** Big Piney River
**** Roubidoux Creek
**** Osage Fork Gasconade River
*** Auxvasse Creek
*** Middle River
*** Osage River
**** Maries River
***** Little Maries River
**** Tavern Creek
**** Grandglaize Creek
***** Wet Glaize Creek
***** Dry Auglaize Creek
**** Niangua River
***** Little Niangua River
**** South Grand River
***** Big Creek
****** Minor Creek
******* Claybaugh Creek
**** Pomme de Terre River
***** Little Sac River
****** North Dry Sac River
****** South Dry Sac River
**** Little Osage River
***** Marmaton River
****** Green River
**** Marais des Cygnes River
*** Moreau River
*** Lamine River
**** Blackwater River 55 miles (89 km)
*** Little Chariton River
**** East Fork Little Chariton River 100 miles (160 km)
***** Walnut Creek
***** Silver Creek
****** Turner Fork
**** Middle Fork Little Chariton River 63 miles (101 km)
*** Chariton River
**** Bee Branch
**** Elm Creek
**** Mussel Fork
**** Shoal Creek
*** Grand River
**** Locust Creek
**** Medicine Creek
**** Thompson River
***** Weldon River
****** Little River
*** Crooked River
*** Fishing River
*** Little Blue River
*** Blue River
**** Brush Creek
**** Round Grove Creek

#### Missouri River north of the Kansas River

* Mississippi River
** Missouri River
*** Platte River
**** One Hundred and Two River
***** White Cloud Creek
***** Jones Branch
***** Mozingo Creek
*** Nodaway River
**** Mill Creek
**** Arapahoe Creek
**** Elkhorn Creek
**** Clear Creek
*** Squaw Creek
*** Tarkio River
*** Rock Creek
*** Nishnabotna River

#### Mississippi River north of the Missouri River

* Mississippi River
** Cuivre River
** Salt River
*** Spencer Creek (Salt River)
*** Black Creek (North Fork Salt River tributary)
**** Hilton Branch
** South River
** North River
** Fabius River
*** North Fabius River
**** Middle Fabius River
***** Betsy Branch
***** Blair Branch
***** Hilbert Branch
*** South Fabius River
**** Little Fabius River
** Wyaconda River
*** Little Wyaconda River
** Fox River
*** Little Fox River
** Des Moines River

## Alphabetically

* Arapahoe Creek
* Baker Creek
* Bennetts River
* Benton Creek
* Bessen Hollow
* Betsy Branch
* Big Piney River
* Big River (142 miles (229 km))
* Big Sugar Creek
* Billys Branch
* Black Jack Creek
* Black River (300 miles (480 km))
* Blackwater River (55 miles (89 km))
* Blair Branch
* Blairs Creek
* Blue River
* Bobs Creek
* Bogard Creek
* Bollinger Creek
* Boone Creek
* Bourbeuse River (147 miles (237 km))
* Brazil Creek
* Brush Creek (Blue River tributary)
* Brush Creek (Bourbeuse River tributary)
* Buffalo Creek
* Burr Oak Creek
* Cache River (213 miles (343 km))
* Capps Creek
* Carter Creek (Current River tributary)
* Carter Creek (Meramec River tributary)
* Castor River
* Cave Spring Branch
* Cedar Creek (Des Moines River tributary)
* Cedar Creek (Missouri River tributary)
* Cedar Creek (Sac River tributary)
* Chariton River (280 miles (450 km))
* Cherry Valley Creek
* Clear Creek
* Coldwater Creek (Missouri river tributary)
* Coldwater Creek (South Grand River tributary)
* Coldwater Creek (Saline Creek tributary)
* Courtois Creek
* Crane Creek
* Crockett Creek
* Crooked Creek
* Crooked River (60 miles (97 km))
* Cuivre River
* Current River (225 miles (362 km))
* Des Moines River 525 miles (845 km)
* Dugan Branch
* Eleven Point River
* Elk River 80 miles (130 km)
* Elkhorn Creek
* Fabius River 230 miles (370 km)
* Fishing River
* Florida Creek
* Fox Creek
* Fox River
* Fretwell Branch
* Gal Branch
* Gasconade River 265 miles (426 km)
* Grand River 226 miles (364 km)
* Grandglaize Creek
* Green River
* Greens Creek
* Hamilton Creek
* Harman Creek
* Hickory Creek
* Highly Creek
* Hilbert Branch
* Hobo Branch
* Holmes Creek
* Honey Creek (Fox River tributary)
* Honey Creek (Limestone Creek tributary)
* Honey Creek (Moreau River tributary)
* Huff Creek
* Huzzah Creek
* Indian Creek
* Jacks Fork
* James River
* James Branch
* Jones Branch (Crooked Creek tributary)
* Jones Branch (One Hundred and Two River tributary)
* Kallambah Branch
* Kelley Branch
* Kelly Branch
* Kings River
* Lamine River 70 miles (110 km)
* Lick Creek
* Lincoln Creek
* Little Black River
* Little Blue River
* Little Bourbeuse River
* Little Chariton River
* Little Fabius River
* Little Fox River
* Little Maries River
* Little Meramec River
* Little Niangua River 40 miles (64 km)
* Little Osage River
* Little Platte River
* Little Pomme de Terre River
* Little River (Iowa–Missouri), tributary of Weldon River
* Little River (St. Francis River tributary)
* Little Sac River
* Little St. Francis River
* Little Sugar Creek
* Little Wyaconda River
* Locust Creek
* Lost Creek (Courtois Creek tributary)
* Lost Creek (Cuivre River tributary)
* Lost Creek (Grand River tributary)
* Loutre River
* Marais des Cygnes River 140 miles (230 km)
* Maries River
* Marmaton River
* Martigney Creek
* Meramec River
* Middle River
* Mill Creek
* Mill Rock Creek
* Missouri River
* Mississippi River
* Moreau River
* Mozingo Creek
* Muddy Creek
* Niangua River
* Nishnabotna River
* Nodaway River
* Norris Creek
* North Dry Sac River
* North Fork River
* North River
* One Hundred and Two River
* Old River
* Osage River
* Peach Creek
* Platte River
* Pomme de Terre River 113 miles (182 km)
* Prairie Creek
* Pryors Branch
* Quick Creek
* River des Peres
* Roaring River
* Rock Branch
* Rock Creek
* Roubidoux Creek
* Sac River 107 miles (172 km)
* St. Francis River 470 miles (760 km)
* Saling Branch
* Salt River
* Shoal Creek
* Sink Creek
* Skinner Creek
* South Grand River
* South River
* Spring River (Arkansas), of Missouri and Arkansas 57 miles (92 km)
* Spring River (Missouri), of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma
* Squaw Creek
* Sweet Oak Branch
* Taff Branch
* Tarkio River
* Thompson River
* Troublesome Creek
* Weldon River
* White Cloud Creek
* White River 722 miles (1,162 km)
* Whites Creek
* Whittenburg Creek
* Whitewater River
* Wilsons Creek
* Wolf Branch
* Wyaconda River