This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Washington.
By drainage basin
[edit]This list is arranged by drainage basin. Respective tributaries are indented under each larger stream's name and are ordered downstream to upstream.
Whidbey Basin
[edit]Central Basin
[edit]- Boeing Creek
- Pipers Creek
- Lake Washington Ship Canal/Lake Washington
- 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
- Puget Creek
South Basin
[edit]- Chambers Creek
- Sequalitchew Creek
- Nisqually River
- Yelm Creek
- Ohop Creek
- Mashel River
- Little Nisqually River
- Kautz Creek
- Paradise River
- Van Trump Creek
- Indian Creek
- Deschutes River
- Kennedy Creek
- Sherwood Creek
- Union River
- Tahuya River
- Skokomish River
- Dewatto River
- Hamma Hamma River
- Duckabush River
- Dosewallips River
- Big Quilcene River
- Little Quilcene River
- Dungeness 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
- Waatch River
- Sooes River
- Ozette River
- Quillayute River
- Dickey River
- Sol Duc River
- Bogachiel River
- Calawah River
- North Fork Calawah River
- Sitkum River
- Calawah River
- Goodman Creek
- Hoh River
- Queets River
- Raft River
- Quinault River
- Moclips River
- Copalis River
- 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
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Pacific_Northwest_River_System.png/350px-Pacific_Northwest_River_System.png)
Lower Columbia Basin
[edit]- Wallacut River
- Chinook River
- Deep River
- Grays River
- Elochoman River
- Germany Creek
- Coal Creek
- Cowlitz River
- Kalama River
- Lewis River
- Gee Creek
- Lake River
- Washougal River
- Wind River
- Little White Salmon River
- White Salmon River
- Klickitat River
Walla Walla and Snake River Basins
[edit]Central Columbian Basin
[edit]![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/YakimaRiverWatersjed.png/250px-YakimaRiverWatersjed.png)
Lake Chelan to Coulee Dam
[edit]- Chelan River (Lake Chelan)
- Methow River
- Twisp River
- Chewuch River
- Lost River
- Okanogan River
- Nespelem River
Upper Columbia Basin
[edit]- Sanpoil River
- Spokane River
- Cable Creek
- Little Spokane River
- Deep Creek
- Latah Creek (Hangman 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
[edit]- 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
- Coulee 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
- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- USGS Streamflow Data for Washington
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Washington (1974)