List of rivers of Washington (state) explained

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

• Nooksack River
  • Wells Creek
  • Whatcom Creek
  • Samish River

Puget Sound

Whidbey Basin

• Skagit River
  • O'Toole Creek
  • Pressentin Creek
  • Grandy Creek

• • • Swift Creek
    • Shannon Creek
    • Blum Creek
    • Sulphide Creek
  • Jackman Creek
  • Sauk River
    • Suiattle River
    • Clear Creek
    • White Chuck River
    • Sloan Creek

• • • 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

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
  • 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
• Hoh River
• Hoko River
• Humptulips River
• 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)