List of rivers of Washington (state)

This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Washington .

By drainage basin

This list is arranged by drainage basin. Respective tributaries are indented under each larger stream's name and are ordered downstream to upstream.

Strait of Georgia / Salish Sea

• Fraser River (British Columbia)
  • Sumas River
    • Chilliwack River
      • Silesia Creek
      • Depot Creek
      • Little Chilliwack River

• Lummi River

Bellingham Bay

• Nooksack River
  • South Fork Nooksack
    • Hard Scrabble Creek
    • Hutchinson Creek
  • Middle Fork Nooksack
  • North Fork Nooksack
    • Wells Creek

• Samish River
• Whatcom Creek

Puget Sound

Whidbey Basin

• Skagit River
  • O'Toole Creek
  • Pressentin Creek
  • Grandy Creek
  • Baker River
    See also: Baker River (Washington) § Tributaries
    • Swift Creek
    • Shannon Creek
    • Blum Creek
    • Sulphide Creek
  • Jackman Creek
  • Sauk River
    • Suiattle River
    • Clear Creek
    • White Chuck River
    • Sloan Creek
  • Cascade River
    See also: Cascade River (Washington) § Tributaries
    • Bacon Creek
    • Goodell Creek
• Stillaguamish River
  • Boulder River
• Snohomish River
  • Pilchuck River
  • Skykomish River
    • Sultan River
    • Wallace River
      • Olney Creek
    • North Fork Skykomish River
    • South Fork Skykomish River
      • Miller River
      • Beckler River
        • Rapid River
      • Foss River
      • Tye River
  • Snoqualmie River
    • Tolt River
    • Raging River
    • South Fork Snoqualmie River
    • North Fork Snoqualmie River
    • Middle Fork Snoqualmie River
      • Pratt River
      • Taylor River

Central Basin

• Boeing Creek
• Pipers Creek
• Lake Washington Ship Canal/Lake Washington
  • Taylor Creek
  • Ravenna Creek
  • Thornton Creek
  • McAleer Creek
  • Sammamish River
    • Swamp Creek
    • North Creek
    • Lake Sammamish
      • Issaquah Creek
  • Juanita Creek
  • Forbes Creek
  • Yarrow Creek
  • Kelsey Creek
  • Coal Creek
  • Cedar River
    • Rex River
• Duwamish River
  • Longfellow Creek
  • Black River (historical)
    • Cedar River (historical)
  • Green River
    • White River (historical)
    • Soos Creek
• Fauntleroy Creek
• Hylebos Creek
• Wapato Creek
• Puyallup River
  • Stuck River
    • White River
      • Clearwater River
      • Greenwater River
  • Carbon River
  • Kapowsin Creek
  • Mowich River
• Puget Creek

South Basin

• Chambers Creek
  • Clover Creek
• Sequalitchew Creek
• Nisqually River
  • Yelm Creek
  • Ohop Creek
  • Mashel River
    • Little Mashel River
  • Little Nisqually River
  • Kautz Creek
  • Paradise River
  • Van Trump Creek
• Indian Creek
• Deschutes River
• Kennedy Creek
• Sherwood Creek

Hood Canal, Admiralty Inlet

• Union River
• Tahuya River
• Skokomish River
• Dewatto River
• Hamma Hamma River
• Duckabush River
• Dosewallips River
• Big Quilcene River
• Little Quilcene River

Strait of Juan de Fuca

• Dungeness River
  • Gray Wolf River
• Elwha River
  • Indian Creek
  • Little River
  • Lillian River
  • Lost River
  • Goldie River
  • Hayes River
• Lyre River
• East Twin River
• West Twin River
• Pysht River
• Clallam River
• Hoko River
• Sekiu River
• Sail River

Pacific Coast

• Waatch River
• Sooes River
• Ozette River
  • Big River
• Quillayute River
  • Dickey River
  • Sol Duc River
  • Bogachiel River
    • Calawah River
      • North Fork Calawah River
      • Sitkum River
• Goodman Creek
• Hoh River
• Queets River
  • Clearwater River
    • Snahapish River
    • Solleks River
  • Salmon River
  • Sams River
• Raft River
• Quinault River
• Moclips River
• Copalis River

Grays Harbor

• Humptulips River
• Hoquiam River
• Chehalis River
  • Wishkah River
  • Wynoochee River
  • Satsop River
    • Canyon River
  • Garrard Creek
  • Black River
    • Waddell Creek
  • Lincoln Creek
  • Skookumchuck River
  • Newaukum River
• Newskah Creek
• Johns River
• Elk River

Willapa Bay

• Cedar River
• North River
• Willapa River
• Bone River
• Niawiakum River
• Palix River
  • Canon River
• North Nemah River
• South Nemah River
  • Middle Nemah River
• Naselle River
• Bear River

Columbia River

Columbia River Basin, showing major dams and tributaries

Lower Columbia Basin

• Wallacut River
• Chinook River
• Deep River
• Grays River
• Elochoman River
• Germany Creek
• Coal Creek
• Cowlitz River
  • Coweeman River
  • Arkansas Creek
  • Toutle River
    • South Fork Toutle River
    • North Fork Toutle River
      • Green River
  • Lacamas Creek
  • Salmon Creek
  • Tilton River
  • Cispus River
    • Iron Creek
    • East Canyon Creek
  • Ohanapecosh River
• Kalama River
• Lewis River
  • East Fork Lewis River
  • Canyon Creek
  • Muddy River
• Gee Creek
• Lake River
  • Salmon Creek
    • Woodin Creek / Weaver Creak
  • Burnt Bridge Creek
• Washougal River
  • Lacamas Creek
• Wind River
• Little White Salmon River
• White Salmon River
• Klickitat River

Walla Walla and Snake River Basins

• Walla Walla River
  • Touchet River
    • Patit Creek
    • South Fork Touchet River
    • North Fork Touchet River
      • Wolf Fork
  • Mill Creek
• Snake River
  • Palouse River
    • Union Flat Creek
    • Rock Creek
  • Tucannon River
  • Alpowa Creek
  • Asotin Creek
  • Grande Ronde River
    • Joseph Creek
    • Crooked Creek
    • Wenaha River

Central Columbian Basin

Yakima River Basin

• Yakima River
  • Amon Creek
  • Ahtanum Creek
  • Naches River
    • Tieton River
    • Bumping River
      • American River
  • Teanaway River
  • Cle Elum River
    • Cooper River
    • Waptus River
  • Kachess River
• Lower Crab Creek
  • Potholes Reservoir / Moses Lake
    • Grand Coulee
    • Upper Crab Creek
• Whiskey Dick Creek
• Wenatchee River
  • Icicle Creek (Enchantment Lakes)
  • Chiwawa River
  • Little Wenatchee River
    • White River
    • Napeequa River
• Entiat River
  • Mad River

Lake Chelan to Coulee Dam

• Chelan River (Lake Chelan)
  • Stehekin River
• Methow River
• Twisp River
• Chewuch River
• Lost River
• Okanogan River
  • Chiliwist Creek
  • Wilder Creek
  • Chewiliken Creek
  • Similkameen River
    • Cecil Creek
  • Ashnola River
  • Pasayten River
• Nespelem River

Upper Columbia Basin

• Sanpoil River
• Spokane River
  • Cable Creek
  • Little Spokane River
  • Deep Creek
  • Latah Creek (Hangman Creek)
    • Garden Springs Creek
• Colville River
• Kettle River
• Pend Oreille River (mouth just across Canada–United States border)
  • Priest River (itself in Idaho, but Western tributaries in Washington)

Alphabetically

• American River
• Amon Creek
• Ashnola River
• Baker River
• Bear River
• Beckler River
• Big Quilcene River
• Black River (historical)
• Black River
• Boeing Creek
• Bogachiel River
• Bone River
• Bumping River
• Calawah River
• Canyon River
• Cape Labelle Creek
• Carbon River
• Cedar River (Lake Washington)
• Cedar River (Willapa Bay)
• Chaplain Creek
• Chehalis River
• Chelan River
• Chewuch River
• Chilliwack River
• Chinook River
• Chiwaukum Creek
• Chiwawa River
• Chumstick Creek
• Cispus River
• Clallam River
• Cle Elum River
• Clear Creek
• Clearwater River (Queets River)
• Clearwater River (White River)
• Clover Creek
• Coal Creek
• Columbia River
• Colville River
• Coulee Creek
• Couse Creek
• Coweeman River
• Cowlitz River
• Crab Creek
• Deep Creek
• Depot Creek
• Deschutes River
• Dewatto River
• Dickey River
• Dosewallips River
• Duckabush River
• Dungeness River
• Duwamish River
• East Fork Miller River
• East Twin River
• Edwards Creek
• Elk River
• Elwha River
• Entiat River
• Fauntleroy Creek
• Foss River
• Gray Wolf River
• Grays River
• Green River (Duwamish River tributary)
• Green River (Toutle River tributary)
• Greenwater River
• Hamma Hamma River
• Hard Scrabble Creek
• Hoh River
• Hoko River
• Humptulips River
• Hutchinson Creek
• Icicle Creek
• Indian Creek (Elwha River)
• Issaquah Creek
• Juanita Creek
• Kachess River
• Kalama River
• Kelsey Creek
• Kettle River
• Klickitat River
• Lacamas Creek
• Lewis River
• Little Chilliwack River
• Little Pend Oreille River
• Little Quilcene River
• Little River
• Little Spokane River
• Little Wenatchee River
• Little White Salmon River
• Lyon Creek
• Mad River
• Mashel River
• McAleer Creek
• Methow River
• Middle Fork Snoqualmie River
• Miller River
• Muddy River
• Naches River
• Napeequa River
• Naselle River
• Nason Creek
• Newaukum River
• Niawiakum River
• Nisqually River
• Nooksack River
• North Creek
• North Fork Skykomish River
• North Fork Snoqualmie River
• North River
• Okanogan River
• Palouse River
• Paradise River
• Pend Oreille River
• Pilchuck River
• Pratt River
• Puyallup River
• Queets River
• Quillayute River
• Quinault River
• Raging River
• Rapid River
• Rex River
• Rock Creek (Latah Creek)
• Rock Creek (Palouse River)
• Sail River
• Samish River
• Sammamish River
• Satsop River
• Sauk River
• Silesia Creek
• Skagit River
• Skokomish River
• Skookumchuck River
• Skykomish River
• Sloan Creek
• Snahapish River
• Snake River
• Snohomish River
• Snoqualmie River
• Sol Duc River
• South Fork Skykomish River
• South Fork Snoqualmie River
• South Fork Sultan River
• Spokane River
• Stehekin River
• Stillaguamish River
• Stuck River
• Sultan River
• Swamp Creek
• Tahuya River
• Taylor Creek
• Teanaway River
• Thornton Creek
• Tieton River
• Tilton River
• Tolt River
• Touchet River
• Toutle River
• Tucannon River
• Twisp River
• Tye River
• Union River
• Van Trump Creek
• Walla Walla River
• Wallace River
• Washougal River
• Waatch River
• Wells Creek
• Wenatchee River
• West Fork Miller River
• West Twin River
• White River (Puyallup River tributary)
• White River (Wenatchee Lake tributary)
• White Salmon River
• Wilder Creek
• Willapa River
• Wishkah River
• Wynoochee River
• Yakima River

See also

• List of rivers in the United States
• List of rivers of the Americas by coastline

References

• USGS Streamflow Data for Washington
• USGS Geographic Names Information Service
• USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Washington (1974)