This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
List of West Virginia rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers. There are also smaller streams (i.e., branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in the state. Exclusive of major tributaries, there are about 46 named rivers in West Virginia. Though relatively few in number, rivers have traditionally provided easy avenues of transportation through the rough terrain of the Mountain State, first by Native Americans and later by European settlers. Even today, the larger rivers transport large volumes of commercial goods, while the smaller ones provide recreational opportunities such as canoeing, fishing, swimming, and white-water rafting.
By tributary
edit- Ohio River
- Monongahela River
- Tygart Valley River
- West Fork River
- Buffalo Creek
- Paw Paw Creek
- Deckers Creek
- Cheat River
- Shavers Fork
- Black Fork
- Horseshoe Run
- Saltlick Creek
- Muddy Creek
- Big Sandy Creek
- Little Sandy Creek (Big Sandy Creek tributary), in Pennsylvania and West Virginia
- Little Sandy Creek (West Virginia)
- Dunkard Creek
- Youghiogheny River
- Muchmores Run
- Tomlinson Run
- Deep Gut Run
- Hardin Run
- Holbert Run
- Kings Creek
- Harmon Creek
- Cross Creek
- Buffalo Creek
- Short Creek
- Girty Run
- Waddles Run
- North Fork Short Creek
- Glenns Run
- Wheeling Creek
- Boggs Run
- Grave Creek
- Fish Creek
- Fishing Creek
- Middle Island Creek
- Little Kanawha River
- Lee Creek
- Pond Creek
- Sandy Creek
- Mill Creek
- Kanawha River
- New River
- Gauley River
- Loop Creek
- Armstrong Creek
- Smithers Creek
- Paint Creek
- Kellys Creek
- Cabin Creek
- Witcher Creek
- Lens Creek
- Campbells Creek
- Elk River
- Twomile Creek
- Davis Creek
- Coal River
- Pocatalico River
- Hurricane Creek
- Eighteenmile Creek (Kanawha River tributary)
- Thirteenmile Creek
- Sixteenmile Creek
- Eighteenmile Creek (Ohio River tributary)
- Guyandotte River
- Twelvepole Creek
- Big Sandy River
- Monongahela River
- Ohio River
- James River (VA)
- Jackson River (VA)
- Cowpasture River (VA)
- Potomac River
- South Branch Potomac River
- North Branch Potomac River
- Little Cacapon River
- Cacapon River
- Sir Johns Run
- Warm Spring Run
- Sleepy Creek
- Cherry Run
- Back Creek
- Opequon Creek
- Shenandoah River
Alphabetically
edit- Abram Creek
- Alum Creek (Coal River tributary)
- Alum Creek (Tug Fork tributary)
- Anthony Creek
- Armstrong Creek
- Arnold Creek
- Back Creek
- Back Fork Elk River
- Baltimore Run
- Barkers Creek
- Bearwallow Creek
- Beaver Creek (Blackwater River tributary)
- Beaver Creek (Piney Creek tributary)
- Beech Fork
- Big Beaver Creek (Gauley River tributary)
- Big Clear Creek
- Big Coal River
- Big Cub Creek
- Big Run (North Fork South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Big Run (South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Big Sandy Creek (Cheat River tributary)
- Big Sandy Creek (Elk River tributary)
- Big Sandy River
- Bingamon Creek
- Birch River
- Black Fork
- Blackwater River
- Blue Creek
- Bluestone River
- Bonds Creek
- Bonnett's Run
- Booths Creek
- Buckeye Creek
- Buckhannon River
- Buffalo Creek (Elk River tributary, West Virginia)
- Buffalo Creek (Guyandotte River tributary)
- Buffalo Creek (Monongahela River tributary)
- Buffalo Creek (Ohio River tributary)
- Buffalo Creek (South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Cabin Creek
- Cacapon River
- Campbells Creek
- Capon Springs Run
- Cedar Creek
- Cheat River
- Cherry River
- Cherry Run
- Clear Fork (Big Coal River tributary)
- Clear Fork (Guyandotte River tributary)
- Coal River
- Copperas Mine Fork
- Cove Creek
- Crab Orchard Creek
- Cranberry River
- Cross Creek
- Crow Run
- Dans Run
- Davis Creek
- Deckers Creek
- Deer Creek
- Den Run
- Desert Fork
- Dillons Run
- Dry Fork (Cheat River tributary)
- Dry Fork (Tug Fork tributary)
- Dunkard Creek
- Dunkard Fork
- Gamble Run
- East Fork Greenbrier River
- Goosepen Run
- East Fork Twelvepole Creek
- East River
- Edwards Run
- Eighteenmile Creek (Kanawha River tributary)
- Eighteenmile Creek (Ohio River tributary)
- Elk Creek
- Elk Fork (Mill Creek tributary)
- Elk Fork (Point Pleasant Creek tributary)
- Elk River
- Elkhorn Creek
- Enlow Fork
- Files Creek
- Fink Creek
- First Creek
- Fish Creek
- Fishing Creek
- Flint Run
- Fourpole Creek
- French Creek
- Frog Creek
- Frozencamp Creek
- Gandy Creek
- Gauley River
- Geelick Run
- Glade Creek
- Glady Fork
- Gorby Run
- Grassy Creek
- Grassy Lick Run
- Grave Creek
- Green Spring Run
- Greenbrier River
- Guyandotte River
- Hackers Creek
- Harker Run
- Heizer Creek
- Henry Branch
- Henry Fork
- Hitchcock Run
- Holly River
- Hominy Creek
- Horseshoe Run
- Hospital Run
- Howard Creek
- Huff Creek
- Hughes Fork
- Hughes River
- Hurricane Creek
- Hushers Run
- Indian Creek (Guyandotte River tributary)
- Indian Creek (Middle Island Creek tributary)
- Indian Creek (New River tributary)
- Indian Creek (South Fork Hughes River tributary)
- Indian Fork
- Island Creek
- Kanawha River
- Kellys Creek
- Kettle Creek
- Kincheloe Creek
- Kings Creek
- Knapp Creek
- Laurel Creek (Big Coal River tributary)
- Laurel Creek (Cherry River tributary)
- Laurel Creek (Elk River tributary)
- Laurel Fork (Cheat River tributary)
- Laurel Fork (Clear Fork Guyandotte River tributary)
- Laurel Fork (North Fork South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Leading Creek (Little Kanawha River tributary)
- Leading Creek (Tygart Valley River tributary)
- Leatherbark Run
- Lee Creek
- Left Fork Buckhannon River
- Left Fork Holly River
- Left Fork Sandy Creek
- Left Fork Steer Creek
- Lens Creek
- Limestone Run
- Little Birch River
- Little Blackwater River
- Little Bluestone River
- Little Cacapon River
- Little Coal River
- Little Fishing Creek
- Little Fork
- Little Huff Creek
- Little Kanawha River
- Little Mill Creek
- Little River (East Fork Greenbrier River tributary)
- Little River (West Fork Greenbrier River tributary)
- Little Sandy Creek (Big Sandy Creek tributary), in Pennsylvania and West Virginia
- Little Sandy Creek (Elk River tributary)
- Little Sandy Creek (West Virginia), tributary of Big Sandy Creek entirely in West Virginia
- Little Tenmile Creek
- Little Wheeling Creek
- Long Drain
- Loop Creek
- Lost River
- Lunice Creek
- Mahogany Run
- Marsh Fork
- McElroy Creek
- McKim Creek
- McKown Creek
- Meadow Branch
- Meadow River
- Meathouse Fork
- Middle Creek
- Middle Fork (South Fork Hughes River tributary)
- Middle Fork River, Tygart Valley River tributary
- Middle Island Creek
- Mill Branch
- Mill Creek (North Fork South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Mill Creek (Opequon Creek tributary)
- Mill Creek (Patterson Creek tributary)
- Mill Creek (South Branch Potomac River tributary)
- Mill Creek (western West Virginia)
- Mill Run
- Miracle Run
- Monongahela River
- Mud River
- Muddlety Creek
- Muddy Creek (Cheat River tributary)
- Muddy Creek (Greenbrier River tributary)
- Negro Run (West Virginia)
- New Creek
- New River
- North Branch Potomac River
- North Fork Blackwater River
- North Fork Cherry River
- North Fork Cranberry River
- North Fork Fishing Creek
- North Fork Hughes River
- North Fork Little Cacapon River
- North Fork Short Creek
- North Fork South Branch Potomac River
- North River
- Nutter Fork
- Ohio River
- Opequon Creek
- Otter Creek
- Paint Creek
- Panther Creek
- Panther Lick Run
- Patterson Creek
- Paw Paw Creek
- Pennsylvania Fork Fish Creek
- Pigeon Creek
- Piney Creek
- Piney Fork
- Pinnacle Creek
- Pocatalico River
- Point Pleasant Creek
- Pond Creek
- Pond Fork
- Potomac River
- Potts Creek
- Pyles Fork
- Red Creek
- Reedy Creek
- Right Fork Buckhannon River
- Right Fork Holly River
- Right Fork Little Kanawha River
- Right Fork Sandy Creek
- Right Fork Steer Creek
- Rockhouse Fork
- Saltlick Creek (Cheat River tributary)
- Saltlick Creek (Little Kanawha River tributary)
- Sancho Creek
- Sand Fork
- Sandy Creek (Ohio River tributary)
- Sandy Creek (Tygart Valley River tributary)
- Second Creek
- Seneca Creek
- Shavers Fork
- Shenandoah River
- Short Creek
- Simpson Creek
- Sir Johns Run
- Sitlington Creek
- Sixteenmile Creek
- Skin Creek
- Slab Fork
- Sleepy Creek
- Smithers Creek
- South Branch Potomac River
- South Fork Cherry River
- South Fork Cranberry River
- South Fork Fishing Creek
- South Fork Hughes River
- South Fork Little Cacapon River
- South Fork South Branch Potomac River
- Spring Creek (Greenbrier River tributary)
- Spring Creek (Little Kanawha River tributary)
- Spruce Creek
- Spruce Fork
- Spruce Laurel Fork
- Steer Creek
- Stonecoal Creek
- Stony River
- Sugar Creek (Back Fork Elk River tributary)
- Sugar Creek (Middle Island Creek tributary)
- Tackett Creek
- Tearcoat Creek
- Tenmile Creek
- Thirteenmile Creek
- Three Fork Creek
- Tilhance Creek
- Toms Fork
- Trace Fork
- Trout Run
- Tug Fork, tributary of Big Sandy River
- Tug Fork (Mill Creek tributary)
- Tupper Creek
- Tuscarora Creek
- Twelvepole Creek
- Twentymile Creek
- Twomile Creek
- Tygart Creek
- Tygart Valley River
- Walker Creek
- Warm Spring Run
- West Fork Greenbrier River
- West Fork Little Kanawha River
- West Fork River
- West Fork Twelvepole Creek
- West Virginia Fork Fish Creek
- Wheeling Creek
- Williams River
- Winding Gulf
- Witcher Creek
- Worthington Creek
- Youghiogheny River
- Zebs Creek
See also
edit
- List of rivers in the United States
- Teays River
- List of islands in West Virginia (with islands in rivers)
External links
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