This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Washington.
By drainage basin
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This list is arranged by drainage basin. Respective tributaries are indented under each larger stream's name and are ordered downstream to upstream.
Fraser River (British Columbia)
- Sumas River
- Saar Creek
- Chilliwack River
- Silesia Creek
- Depot Creek
- Little Chilliwack River
Strait of Georgia, Bellingham Bay, Samish Bay
- Dakota Creek
- California Creek
- Lummi River
- Nooksack River
- Tenmile Creek
- Anderson Creek
- South Fork Nooksack River
- Skookum Creek
- Middle Fork Nooksack River
- North Fork Nooksack River
- Canyon Creek
- Glacier Creek
- Dead Horse Creek
- Wells Creek
- Ruth Creek
- Whatcom Creek
- Padden Creek
- Samish River
Puget Sound
Whidbey Basin
- Skagit River
- Finney Creek
- Grandy Creek
- Baker River
- Thunder Creek
- Rocky Creek
- Sulphur Creek
- Swift Creek
- Shannon Creek
- Blum Creek
- Sulphide Creek
- Crystal Creek
- Bald Eagle Creek
- Jackman Creek
- Sauk River
- Suiattle River
- Big Creek
- Buck Creek
- Lime Creek
- Downey Creek
- Sulphur Creek
- Milk Creek
- Dusty Creek
- Chocolate Creek
- Dan Creek
- Clear Creek
- Helena Creek
- White Chuck River
- Pugh Creek
- Camp Creek
- South Fork Sauk River
- Elliott Creek
- North Fork Sauk River
- Lost Creek
- Sloan Creek
- Cadet Creek
- Suiattle River
- Illabot Creek
- Cascade River
- Jordan Creek
- Marble Creek
- Kindy Creek
- North Fork Cascade River
- South Fork Cascade River
- Middle Fork Cascade River
- Diobsud Creek
- Bacon Creek
- Goodell Creek
- Newhalem Creek
- Stetattle Creek
- Thunder Creek
- Colonial Creek
- Ruby Creek
- Canyon Creek
- Slate Creek
- Granite Creek
- Canyon Creek
- Big Beaver Creek
- Devils Creek
- Three Fools Creek
- Little Beaver Creek
- Tulalip Creek
- Stillaguamish River
- Pilchuck Creek
- North Fork Stillaguamish
- Deer Creek
- Boulder River
- Squire Creek
- South Fork Stillaguamish
- Jim Creek
- Canyon Creek
- Snohomish River
- Quilceda Creek
- Pilchuck River
- Little Pilchuck Creek
- French Creek
- Skykomish River
- Woods Creek
- West Fork Woods Creek
- Youngs Creek
- Sultan River
- Chaplain Creek
- South Fork Sultan River
- Wallace River
- Olney Creek
- North Fork Skykomish River
- Salmon Creek
- Silver Creek
- Troublesome Creek
- West Cady Creek
- Goblin Creek
- Quartz Creek
- Pass Creek
- South Fork Skykomish River
- Barclay Creek
- Index Creek
- Money Creek
- Miller River
- West Fork Miller River
- East Fork Miller River
- Camp Robber Creek
- Maloney Creek
- Beckler River
- Rapid River
- Meadow Creek
- North Fork Rapid River
- Fourth of July Creek
- Evergreen Creek
- Rapid River
- Foss River
- West Fork Foss River
- East Fork Foss River
- Tye River
- Martin Creek
- Deception Creek
- Surprise Creek
- Scenic Creek
- Tunnel Creek
- Woods Creek
- Snoqualmie River
- Cherry Creek
- Tolt River
- North Fork Tolt River
- South Fork Tolt River
- Griffin Creek
- Patterson Creek
- Raging River
- Tokul Creek
- South Fork Snoqualmie River
- Boxley Creek
- Hansen Creek
- North Fork Snoqualmie River
- Tate Creek
- Sunday Creek
- Lennox Creek
- Middle Fork Snoqualmie River
- Granite Creek
- Pratt River
- Rainy Creek
- Taylor River
- Quartz Creek
- Dingford Creek
- Burnboot Creek
Central Basin
- Shell Creek
- Shelleberger Creek
- Deer Creek
- Boeing Creek
- Pipers Creek
- Lake Washington Ship Canal/Lake Washington
- Taylor Creek
- Ravenna Creek
- Thornton Creek
- McAleer Creek
- Lyon Creek
- Sammamish River
- Swamp Creek
- Scriber Creek
- North Creek
- Penny Creek
- Mill Creek
- Sitka Creek
- Bear Creek
- Cottage Lake Creek
- Lake Sammamish
- Issaquah Creek
- East Fork Issaquah Creek
- Issaquah Creek
- Swamp Creek
- Juanita Creek
- Forbes Creek
- Yarrow Creek
- Kelsey Creek
- Coal Creek
- May Creek
- Cedar River
- Taylor Creek
- Rex River
- Duwamish River
- Longfellow Creek
- Black River (historical)
- Cedar River (historical)
- Green River
- White River (historical)
- Big Soos Creek
- Newaukum Creek
- North Fork Green River
- Smay Creek
- Sunday Creek
- Fauntleroy Creek
- Des Moines Creek
- Massey Creek
- McSorley Creek
- Redondo Creek
- Lakota Creek
- Joes Creek
- Hylebos Creek
- Wapato Creek
- Puyallup River
- Swan Creek
- Clear Creek
- Clarks Creek
- Stuck River
- White River
- Clearwater River
- Greenwater River
- West Fork White River
- Huckleberry Creek
- White River
- Carbon River
- Voight Creek
- South Prairie Creek
- Wilkeson Creek
- Kapowsin Creek
- Mowich River
- Puget Creek
South Basin
- Chambers Creek
- Clover Creek
- Sequalitchew Creek
- Nisqually River
- Muck Creek
- Yelm Creek
- Tanwax Creek
- Ohop Creek
- Mashel River
- Little Mashel River
- Busy Wild Creek
- Little Nisqually River
- Mineral Creek
- Big Creek
- Catt Creek
- Kautz Creek
- Paradise River
- Van Trump Creek
- Woodland Creek
- Indian Creek
- Deschutes River
- Kennedy Creek
- Mill Creek
- Goldsborough Creek
- Sherwood Creek
Hood Canal, Admiralty Inlet
- Union River
- Mission Creek
- Tahuya River
- Skokomish River
- North Fork Skokomish River (Lake Cushman)
- South Fork Skokomish River
- Vance Creek
- Dewatto River
- Hamma Hamma River
- Duckabush River
- Dosewallips River
- Big Quilcene River
- Tunnel Creek
- Little Quilcene River
- Chimacum Creek
Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Snow Creek
- Dungeness River
- Gray Wolf River
- Cameron Creek
- Gray Wolf River
- McDonald Creek
- Morse Creek
- Ennis Creek
- Elwha River
- Indian Creek
- Little River
- Lillian River
- Lost River
- Goldie River
- Hayes River
- Lyre River
- East Twin River
- West Twin River
- Deep Creek
- 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
- Bear Creek
- North Fork Sol Duc River
- Bogachiel River
- Calawah River
- North Fork Calawah River
- Sitkum River
- Calawah River
- Goodman Creek
- Hoh River
- South Fork Hoh River
- Mount Tom Creek
- Kalaloch Creek
- Queets River
- Clearwater River
- Snahapish River
- Solleks River
- Salmon River
- Matheny Creek
- Sams River
- Thletshy Creek
- Clearwater River
- Raft River
- Quinault River
- Cook Creek
- Ten O'Clock Creek
- North Fork Quinault Creek
- Rustler Creek
- Moclips River
- Joe Creek
- Copalis River
Grays Harbor
- Humptulips River
- Big Creek
- Stevens Creek
- West Fork Humptulips River
- East Fork Humptulips River
- Hoquiam River
- Chehalis River
- Wishkah River
- Wynoochee River
- Satsop River
- East Fork Satsop River
- Decker Creek
- Bingham Creek
- Middle Fork Satsop River
- West Fork Satsop River
- Canyon River
- East Fork Satsop River
- Cloquallum Creek
- Delezene Creek
- Mox Chehalis Creek
- Porter Creek
- Rock Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Garrard Creek
- Black River
- Beaver Creek
- Waddell Creel
- Scatter Creek
- Lincoln Creek (entirely in Lewis County)
- Skookumchuck River
- Hanaford Creek
- Salzer Creek
- Newaukum River
- North Fork Newaukum River
- Middle Fork Newaukum River
- South Fork Newaukum River
- North Fork Newaukum River
- Stearns Creek
- Bunker Creek
- South Fork Chehalis River
- Lake Creek
- Stillman Creek
- Elk Creek
- Crim Creek
- Newskah Creek
- Johns River
- Elk River
Willapa Bay
- Cedar River
- North River
- Lower Salmon Creek
- Little North River
- Vesta Creek
- Fall River
- Smith Creek
- Elkhorn Creek
- Willapa River
- South Fork Willapa River
- Wilson Creek
- Mill Creek
- Fork Creek
- Bone River
- Niawiakum River
- Palix River
- Canon River
- North Nemah River
- Williams Creek
- South Nemah River
- Middle Nemah River
- Naselle River
- South Naselle River
- Salmon Creek
- Bear River
Columbia River
- Columbia River
Lower Columbia Basin
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- Wallacut River
- Chinook River
- Deep River
- Grays River
- Skamokawa Creek
- Elochoman River
- Abernethy Creek
- Germany Creek
- Coal Creek
- Cowlitz River
- Coweeman River
- Ostrander Creek
- Arkansas Creek
- Toutle River
- South Fork Toutle River
- North Fork Toutle River
- Green River
- Hoffstadt Creek
- Olequah Creek
- Lacamas Creek
- Salmon Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Winstron Creek
- Tilton River
- Cispus River
- Quartz Creek
- Iron Creek
- Yellowjacket Creek
- North Fork Cispus River
- East Canyon Creek
- Adams Creek
- Muddy Fork
- Walupt Creek (Walupt Creek Falls)
- Kiona Creek
- Silver Creek
- Johnson Creek
- Skate Creek
- Butter Creek
- Lake Creek (Packwood Lake)
- Muddy Fork Cowlitz River
- Ohanapecosh River
- Summit Creek
- Clear Fork Cowlitz River
- Kalama River
- Lewis River
- East Fork Lewis River
- Cedar Creek
- Canyon Creek
- Siouxou Creek
- Pine Creek
- Muddy River
- Clear Creek
- Clearwater Creek
- Clear Creek
- Quartz Creek
- Gee Creek
- Lake River
- Salmon Creek
- Woodin Creek / Weaver Creak
- Burnt Bridge Creek
- Salmon Creek
- Washougal River
- Lacamas Creek
- Little Washougal River
- West Fork Washougal River
- Rock Creek
- Wind River
- Panther Creek
- Trout Creek
- Falls Creek
- Little White Salmon River
- White Salmon River
- Rattlesnake Creek
- Trout Lake Creek
- Cascade Creek
- Klickitat River
- Swale Creek
- Little Klickitat River
- Bowman Creek
- Mill Creek
- Butler Creek
- Summit Creek
- White Creek
- Brush Creek
- Outlet Creek
- Trout Creek
- Big Muddy Creek
- Surveyors Creek
- West Fork
- Diamond Fork
- Rock Creek
Walla Walla and Snake River Basins
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- Walla Walla River
- Touchet River
- Patit Creek
- South Fork Touchet River
- North Fork Touchet River
- Wolf Fork
- Robinson Fork
- Wolf Fork
- Mud Creek
- Dry Creek
- Mill Creek
- Cottonwood Creek
- Touchet River
- Snake River
- Palouse River
- Cow Creek
- Union Flat Creek
- Rock Creek
- Imbler Creek
- Cottonwood Creek
- Kamiache Creek
- Pleasant Valley Creek
- Pine Creek
- Thorn Creek
- Rebel Flat Creek
- South Fork Palouse River
- Tucannon River
- Pataha Creek
- Tumalum Creek
- Cummings Creek
- Alkali Flat Creek
- Meadow Creek
- Deadman Creek
- Penawawa Creek
- Alpowa Creek
- Asotin Creek
- George Creek
- Charley Creek
- South Fork Asotin Creek
- Lick Creek
- Grande Ronde River
- Joseph Creek
- Menatchee Creek
- Crooked Creek
- Wenaha River (North Fork)
- Palouse River
- Walla Walla River
Central Columbian Basin
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- Yakima River
- Amon Creek
- Logy Creek
- Toppenish Creek
- Simcoe Creek
- Ahtanum Creek
- Wide Hollow Creek
- Naches River
- Cowiche Creek
- Tieton River
- Rimrock Lake
- South Fork Tieton River
- North Fork Tieton River
- Rimrock Lake
- Rattle Snake Creek
- Little Rattle Snake Creek
- Nile Creek
- Bumping River
- American River
- Deep Creek
- Crow Creek
- Little Naches River
- Wenas Creek
- Lmuma Creek
- Umtanum Creek
- Wilson Creek
- Cherry Creek
- Cooke Creek
- Caribou Creek
- Park Creek
- Naneum Creek
- Coleman Creek
- Cherry Creek
- Reever Creek
- Manastash Creek
- Robinson Creek
- Dry Creek
- Taneum Creek
- Swauk Creek
- First Creek
- Teanaway River
- Cle Elum River
- Cooper River
- Waptus River
- Little Creek
- Big Creek
- Kachess River
- Cabin Creek
- Keechelus Lake
- Hanson Creek
- Lower Crab Creek
- Potholes Reservoir / Moses Lake
- Rocky Ford Creek (Grand Coulee)
- Upper Crab Creek
- Potholes Reservoir / Moses Lake
- Johnson Creek
- Whiskey Dick Creek
- Tekison Creek
- Lynch Coulee
- Tarpiscan Creek
- Douglas Creek
- Colockum Creek
- Rock Island Creek
- Beaver Creek
- Squilchuck Creek
- Wenatchee River
- Mission Creek
- Peshastin Creek
- Ingalls Creek
- Chumstick Creek
- Eagle Creek
- Icicle Creek
- Snow Creek (Enchantment Lakes)
- Eightmile Creek
- Mountaineer Creek
- Jack Creek
- French Creek
- Chiwaukum Creek
- Chiwawa River
- Big Meadow Creek
- Phelps Creek
- Fish Lake Run
- Nason Creek
- Whitepine Creek
- Lake Wenatchee
- Little Wenatchee River
- White River
- Napeequa River
- Indian Creek
- Swakane Creek
- Entiat River
- Mad River
- Mud Creek
- North Fork Entiat
- Yakima River
Lake Chelan to Coulee Dam
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- Chelan River (Lake Chelan)
- Twentyfive Mile Creek
- Prince Creek
- Railroad Creek
- Stehekin River
- Company Creek
- Agnes Creek
- Bridge Creek
- Flat Creek
- Methow River
- Gold Creek
- South Fork Gold Creek
- Foggy Dew Creek
- Libby Creek
- Beaver Creek
- Frazer Creek
- Twisp River
- Little Bridge Creek
- Buttermilk Creek
- War Creek
- Bear Creek
- Chewuch River
- Cub Creek
- Boulder Creek
- Eightmile Creek
- Falls Creek
- Twenty Miles creek
- Andrews Creek
- Wolf Creek
- Goat Creek
- Early Winters Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Lost River
- Eureka Creek
- Robinson Creek
- Gold Creek
- Swamp Creek
- Okanogan River
- Loup Loup Creek
- Salmon Creek (Conconully Reservoir)
- West Fork Salmon
- North Fork Salmon
- Omak Creek
- No Name Creek (Omak Lake)
- Kartar Creek
- No Name Creek (Omak Lake)
- Wanacut Creek
- Johnson Creek
- Tunk Creek
- Bonaparte Creek
- Siwash Creek
- Antoine Creek
- Similkameen River
- Palmer Creek (Palmer Lake)
- Sinlahekin Creek
- Chopaka Creek (Chopaka Lake)
- Toats Coulee Creek
- Cecil Creek
- Sinlahekin Creek
- Ashnola River
- Pasayten River
- East Fork Pasayten
- West Fork Pasayten
- Middle Fork Pasayten
- Chuchuwanteen Creek
- Castle Creek
- Palmer Creek (Palmer Lake)
- Tomasket Creek
- Osoyoos Lake
- Foster Creek
- Coyote Creek
- Nespelem River
- Little Nespelem River
- North Star Creek
- Stepstone Creek
- Chelan River (Lake Chelan)
Upper Columbia Basin
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- Sanpoil River
- Twentythree Mile Creek
- Seventeenmile Creek
- West Fork Sanpoil River
- Gold Creek
- Lost Creek
- Cape Labelle Creek
- Granite Creek
- O'Brien Creek
- Hawk Creek
- Spokane River
- Spring Creek
- Chamokane Creek
- Little Spokane River
- Deadman Creek
- Dragoon Creek
- Deer Creek
- West Branch Little Spokane (Eloika Lake)
- Deep Creek
- Latah Creek (Hangman Creek)
- California Creek
- Rock Creek
- Little Hangman Creek
- Ninemile Creek
- Wilmont Creek
- Stranger Creek
- Hall Creek
- Lynx Creek
- Barnaby Creek
- Sherman Creek
- Colville River
- Mill Creek
- Haller Creek
- Little Pend Oreille River
- Bear Creek
- Stranger Creek
- Stensgar Creek
- Chewelah Creek
- Cottonwood Creek
- Huckleberry Creek
- Grouse Creek
- Deer Creek
- Sheep Creek
- Kettle River
- Deadman Creek
- Boulder Creek
- East Deer Creek
- West Deer Creek
- Lon Alec Creek
- Curlew Creek (Curlew Lake)
- Lambert Creek
- Trout Creek
- Tonata Creek
- Toroda Creek
- Myers Creek
- Mary Ann Creek
- Onion Creek
- Big Sheep Creek
- Deep Creek
- Pend Oreille River (mouth just across Canadaâ€"United States border)
- Slate Creek
- Sullivan Creek
- Harvey Creek (Sullivan Lake)
- Ruby Creek
- Le Clerc Creek
- Tacoma Creek
- Calispell Creek
- Small Creek
- Winchester Creek
- Skookum Creek
- Priest River (itself in Idaho, but Western tributaries in Washington)
- Lower West Branch Priest River
- Upper West Branch Priest River
- Kalispell Creek
- Granite Creek
- Sanpoil River
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
- 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
- Cowlitz River
- Crab Creek
- Deep River
- Depot Creek
- Deschutes River
- Dewatto River
- Dickey River
- Dosewallips River
- Duckabush River
- Dungeness River
- Duwamish River
- East Fork Miller River
- East Twin River
- 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
- 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
- Willapa River
- Wishkah River
- Wynoochee River
- Yakima River
See also
- List of rivers in the United States
References
- USGS Streamflow Data for Washington
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Washington (1974)
