List of rivers of New York

Rivers in the U.S. state of New York include:

By drainage basin

This list is arranged by drainage basin, with tributaries indented by order of confluence, from mouth to source.

Long Island Sound (northern side)

• Housatonic River (CT)
  • Tenmile River
    • Swamp River
      • Mill River
    • Webatuck Creek
  • Green River
• Norwalk River (CT)
  • Silvermine River
• Rippowam River
  • Mill River
• Mianus River
• Byram River
  • Wampus River
• Blind Brook
• Mamaroneck River

• • Sheldrake River
• Hutchinson River
• Hudson River

Long Island

Long Island Sound

• Nissequogue River
• Wading River

Block Island Sound

• Peconic River
  • Little River

Atlantic Ocean

• Carmans River 10 miles
• Connetquot River 6 miles
• Forge River 3.2 miles
• Swan River 2 miles
• Patchogue River 1 mile
• Carlls River
• Massapequa Creek
• Seaford Creek
• Bellmore Creek
• East Meadow Brook
• Cedar Swamp Creek
• Mill River
• Aspatuck River
• Speonk River

New York Harbor

• Arthur Kill (tidal strait)
  • Fresh Kills
    • Richmond Creek
• Passaic River (NJ)
  • Saddle River
  • Pompton River (NJ)
    • Pequannock River (NJ)
      • Wanaque River
        • Ringwood River
    • Ramapo River
      • Mahwah River
• Hackensack River
  • Pascack Brook
• Kill Van Kull (tidal strait)
• East River (tidal strait)
  • Newtown Creek
  • Harlem River (tidal strait)
  • Bronx Kill (tidal strait)
  • Bronx River
  • Flushing River
  • Westchester Creek

Hudson River Basin

• Hudson River (also known as the North River)
  • Saw Mill River
    • Rum Brook
    • Mine Brook
    • Nanny Hagen Brook
    • Tertia Brook
  • Wickers Creek
  • Sparkill Creek
  • Pocantico River
    • Caney Brook
    • Rockefeller Brook
    • Gory Brook
  • Sing Sing Brook
  • Croton River
    • Kisco River
    • Muscoot River
    • Cross River
      • Stone Hill River
      • Waccabuc River
    • Titicus River
    • East Branch Croton River
    • West Branch Croton River
  • Minisceongo Creek
  • Cedar Pond Brook
  • Annsville Creek
    • Peekskill Hollow Creek
    • Sprout Brook
      • Canopus Creek
  • Broccy Creek
  • Popolopen Creek
    • Hemlock Brook
  • Highland Brook
    • Stoney Lonesome Brook
  • Arden Brook
  • Indian Brook
  • Crows Nest Brook
  • Foundry Brook
  • Breakneck Brook
  • Moodna Creek
    • Silver Stream
    • Woodbury Creek
      • Mineral Spring Brook
    • Cromline Creek
    • Otter Kill
      • Black Meadow Creek
      • Beaverdam Brook
  • Gordons Brook
    • Wades Brook
    • Squirrel Hollow Creek
  • Fishkill Creek
    • Clove Creek
    • Sprout Creek
      • Jackson Creek
    • Whortlekill Creek
  • Quassaick Creek
    • Bushfield Creek
    • Gedneytown Creek
  • Wappinger Creek
    • Little Wappinger Creek
  • Lattintown Creek
  • Casperkill
    • Fonteyn Kill
  • Fall Kill
  • Twaalfskill Creek
  • Maritje Kill
  • Crum Elbow Creek

    

  • Bard Rock Creek
  • Indian Kill
  • North Staatsburg Creek
  • Black Creek (Hudson River tributary)
  • Fallsburg Creek
  • Landsman Kill
    • Rhinebeck Kill
  • Rondout Creek
    • Wallkill River
      • Shawangunk Kill
        • Dwaar Kill (Shawangunk Kill tributary)
        • Pakasink Creek
        • Verkeerder Kill
        • Platte Kill (Shawangunk Kill tributary)
        • Little Shawangunk Kill
      • Dwaar Kill (Wallkill River tributary)
      • Tin Brook
      • Muddy Kill
      • Mannayunk Kill
      • Monhagen Brook
      • Pochuck Creek
        • Wawayanda Creek
      • Rutgers Creek
        • Catlin Creek
          • Joe Creek
        • Indigot Creek
    • Cottekill Brook
    • Coxing Kill
    • Kripplebush Creek
    • Peters Kill
    • Stony Kill
      • Sanders Kill
    • Rochester Creek
      • Mill Brook (Rochester Creek tributary)
      • Vly Brook
      • Mettacahonts Creek
    • Ver Nooy Kill
    • Beer Kill Creek
      • Fantine Kill
    • Brandy Brook
    • Trout Creek (Rondout Creek tributary)
    • Chestnut Creek (Rondout Creek tributary)
    • Sugarloaf Brook
    • Sundown Creek
    • High Falls Brook
    • Stone Cabin Brook
    • Bear Hole Brook
    • Buttermilk Falls Brook
    • Picket Brook
  • Mudder Kill
  • Saw Kill
    • Lakes Kill
  • Stony Creek
  • Esopus Creek
    • Plattekill Creek (Esopus Creek tributary)
    • Saw Kill (Esopus Creek tributary)
    • Bush Kill (Esopus Creek tributary)
      • Maltby Hollow Brook
        • Wittenberg Brook
      • South Hollow Brook
      • Kanape Brook
    • Little Beaver Kill (Esopus Creek tributary)
    • Beaver Kill (Esopus Creek tributary)
    • Woodland Creek
      • Muddy Brook (Woodland Creek tributary)
      • Panther Kill
      • Dougherty Branch
    • Stony Clove Creek
      • Hollow Tree Brook
    • Bushnellsville Creek
      • Angle Creek (Bushnellsville Creek tributary)
    • Birch Creek (Esopus Creek tributary)
    • Elk Bushkill
  • Sawyer Kill
  • Roeliff Jansen Kill
    • Shekomeko Creek
      • Bean River
    • Bash Bish Brook
  • Catskill Creek
    • Kaaterskill Creek
    • Potic Creek
      • Cob Creek
    • Jan De Bakkers Kill
    • Basic Creek
      • Wolf Fly Creek
    • Bowery Creek
    • Tenmile Creek
      • Eightmile Creek
    • Fox Creek
    • Lake Creek
  • Stockport Creek
    • Claverack Creek
      • Taghkanic Creek
    • Kinderhook Creek
      • Valatie Kill
      • Kline Kill
      • Stony Kill
      • Tackawasick Creek
      • Wyomanock Creek
      • Black River
  • Mill Creek
  • Coxsackie Creek
  • Hannacrois Creek
  • Coeymans Creek
    • Mosher Brook
    • Onesquethaw Creek
  • Schodack Creek
    • Muitzes Kill
  • Mill Creek
  • Vloman Kill
    • Dowers Kill
    • Phillipin Kill
  • Moordener Kill
  • Normans Kill
    • Bozen Kill
  • Wynants Kill
  • Poesten Kill
    • Quacken Kill
  • Mohawk River
    • Alplaus Kill
    • Delphus Kill
    • Shakers Creek
    • Lisha Kill
    • Plotter Kill
    • Moccasin Kill
    • Sandsea Kill
    • Terwilleger Creek
    • North Chuctanunda Creek
    • South Chuctanunda Creek
    • Schoharie Creek
      • Cobleskill Creek
        • West Creek
      • Fox Creek
        • Switz Kill
      • Batavia Kill
      • Little West Kill
      • West Kill
        • Hunter Brook
      • East Kill
    • Auries Creek
    • Cayadutta Creek
    • Van Wie Creek
    • Yatesville Creek
    • Lasher Creek
    • Flat Creek
    • Canajoharie Creek
    • Otsquago Creek
      • Otsquene Creek
      • Otstungo Creek
      • Loyal Creek
    • Caroga Creek
      • Peck Creek
      • Sprite Creek
      • Mill Creek
      • Glasgow Creek
      • North Creek
    • East Canada Creek
      • Spruce Creek
      • Sprite Creek
    • Nowadaga Creek
    • West Canada Creek
      • Honnedaga Brook
      • Seabury Brook
      • Big Brook
      • Mill Creek
      • Mad Tom Brook
      • Concklin Brook
      • Cincinnati Creek
      • Shed Brook
      • Mill Brook
      • Indian River
      • Metcalf Brook
      • Betty Green Brook
      • South Branch West Canada Creek
      • Fourmile Brook
      • Mill Creek
      • Cold Brook
      • Oklahoma Creek
      • White Creek
        • Grandpa’s River (White Creek tributary)
      • City Brook
      • Maltanner Creek
      • Stony Creek
      • North Creek
    • Fulmer Creek
      • Flat Creek
      • Day Creek
    • Steele Creek
    • Moyer Creek
    • Sauquoit Creek
    • Oriskany Creek
    • Ninemile Creek
    • Sixmile Creek
    • Hurlbut Glen Brook
    • Wells Creek
    • Tannery Brook
    • Stringer Brook
    • Lansing Kill
    • Haynes Brook
    • Blue Brook
  • Hoosic River
    • Tomhannock Creek
    • Owl Kill
    • Walloomsac River
    • Little Hoosic River
  • Fish Creek
    • Kayaderosseras Creek
      • Glowegee Creek
  • Batten Kill
  • Slocum Creek
  • Moses Kill
    • Dead Creek
  • Snook Kill
  • Champlain Canal
  • Sturdevant Creek
  • Sacandaga River
    • Paul Creek
    • Kennyetto Creek
    • East Stony Creek
    • West Stony Creek
    • West Branch Sacandaga River
      • Hamilton Lake Stream
      • Piseco Outlet
        • Fall Stream
    • East Branch Sacandaga River
    • Kunjamuk River
  • Schroon River
    • Trout Brook
      • Minerva Stream
    • The Branch
  • Patterson Brook
  • North Creek
  • Boreas River
  • Indian River
    • Jessup River
    • Miami River
  • Cedar River
    • Rock River
  • Goodnow River
  • Newcomb River
  • Opalescent River

Delaware River Basin

• Delaware River
  • Neversink River
    • Basher Kill
    • Sheldrake Stream
    • East Branch Neversink River
      • Erts Brook
      • Riley Brook
      • Tray Mill Brook
      • Flat Brook (East Branch Neversink River tributary)
      • Deer Shanty Brook
      • Donovan Brook
    • West Branch Neversink River
      • Fall Brook (West Branch Neversink River tributary)
      • Flat Brook (West Branch Neversink River tributary)
      • High Falls Brook
      • Biscuit Brook
        • Pigeon Brook
  • Mongaup River
    • Black Brook (Mongaup River tributary)
    • West Branch Mongaup River
    • Middle Mongaup River
    • East Mongaup River

      

  • Tenmile River
  • Callicoon Creek
    • East Branch Callicoon Creek
    • North Branch Callicoon Creek
  • Hankins Creek
  • Basket Creek
    • North Branch Basket Creek
    • East Branch Basket Creek
  • Hoolihan Brook
  • Pea Brook
  • Bouchoux Brook
  • Abe Lord Creek
  • Humphries Brook
  • Blue Mill Stream
  • East Branch Delaware River
    • Beaver Kill
      • Willowemoc Creek
        • Little Beaver Kill
        • Fir Brook
      • Jersey Brook
      • Voorhees Brook
      • Shin Creek
      • Mary Smith Brook
      • Upper Beech Hill Brook
      • Alder Creek (Beaver Kill tributary)
      • Scudder Brook
      • Black Brook (Beaver Kill tributary)
      • Gulf of Mexico Brook
    • Tremper Kill
    • Platte Kill
  • West Branch Delaware River
    • Oquaga Creek
    • Little Delaware River

Susquehanna River Basin

• Susquehanna River
  • Chemung River
    • Baldwin Creek
    • Bentley Creek
    • Seeley Creek
      • South Creek
      • Mudlick Creek
    • Newtown Creek
    • Post Creek
    • Cohocton River
      • Meads Creek
      • Mud Creek
      • Campbell Creek
      • Fivemile Creek
      • Goff Creek
    • Tioga River
      • Canisteo River
        • Tuscarora Creek
          • North Branch Tuscarora Creek
        • Colonel Bills Creek
        • Bennetts Creek
          • Purdy Creek
        • Crosby Creek
        • Canacadea Creek
      • Cowanesque River
        • Troups Creek
        • North Fork Cowanesque River
  • Cayuta Creek
  • Wappasening Creek
  • Pipe Creek
  • Owego Creek
    • Catatonk Creek
      • Willseyville Creek
    • East Branch Owego Creek
    • West Branch Owego Creek
  • Apalachin Creek
  • Nanticoke Creek
  • Choconut Creek
  • Chenango River
    • Page Brook
    • Tioughnioga River
      • Otselic River
        • Merrill Creek
        • Mud Creek
      • Dudley Creek
      • Hunts Creek
      • Labrador Creek
      • East Branch Tioughnioga River
      • West Branch Tioughnioga River
    • Genegantslet Creek
    • Bowman Creek
    • Mill Brook
    • Canasawacta Creek
    • Sangerfield River
  • Little Snake Creek
  • Snake Creek
  • Tuscarora Creek
  • Hotchkins Creek
  • Sanford Creek
  • Occanum Creek
  • Sage Creek
  • Ouaquaga Creek
  • Watersnake Creek
  • Belden Brook
  • Wylie Brook
  • Reed Creek
  • Cornell Creek
  • Kelsey Brook
  • Landers Creek
  • Osborn Brook
  • Newton Brook
  • Yaleville Creek
  • Unadilla River
    • Butternut Creek
    • Wharton Creek
    • Beaver Creek
  • Carrs Creek
  • Martin Brook
  • Ouleout Creek
    • Treadwell Creek
  • Sand Hill Creek
  • Brier Creek
  • Flax Island Creek
  • Otsdawa Creek
  • Mill Creek
  • Otego Creek
  • Charlotte Creek
  • Schenevus Creek
    • Elk Creek
  • Cherry Valley Creek
  • Burditt Brook
  • Black Brook
  • Chase Creek
  • Oaks Creek
    • Fly Creek
      • Muskrat Pond Outlet
    • Lidell Creek
    • Phinney Creek
  • Red Creek

St. Lawrence River Basin

Lake Champlain

• Great Chazy River
  • Beaver Creek
  • North Branch Great Chazy River
• Little Chazy River
• Saranac River
  • North Branch Saranac River
• Salmon River
• Little Ausable River
• Ausable River
  • East Branch Ausable River
  • West Branch Ausable River
    • Black Brook
    • Chubb River
• Boquet River
  • North Branch Boquet River
  • Black River
• La Chute
  • Northwest Bay Brook
• East Bay
  • Poultney River
• Mettawee River
  • Wood Creek (Champlain Canal)
    • Halfway Creek
    • Big Creek
  • Indian River

St. Lawrence River

• Saint Lawrence River
  • English River
  • Chateauguay River
    • Marble River
  • Trout River
    • Little Trout River
  • Salmon River
    • Pike Creek
    • Little Salmon River
      • Farrington Brook
  • St. Regis River
    • Deer River
      • Trout Brook (Deer River tributary)
      • West Branch Deer River
    • West Branch St. Regis River
      • Trout Brook (St. Regis River tributary)
      • Stony Brook
      • Long Pond Outlet
      • Windfall Brook
    • Lake Ozonia Outlet
    • East Branch St. Regis River
      • Osgood River
    • Onion River

      

  • Raquette River
    • Plum Brook
    • Trout Brook (Raquette River tributary)
    • Jordan River
    • Bog River
      • Round Lake Stream
    • Ampersand Brook
    • Moose Creek
    • Cold River
    • Big Brook
    • Salmon River
    • Marion River
    • South Inlet
  • Grass River
    • Little River
    • Harrison Creek
      • Tanner Creek (Grass River tributary)
    • North Branch Grass River
    • Middle Branch Grass River
    • South Branch Grass River
  • Brandy Brook
  • Sucker Brook
  • Oswegatchie River
    • Indian River
      • Black Creek
      • Otter Creek
      • West Creek
      • Bonaparte Creek
    • Indian Creek
    • West Branch Oswegatchie River
      • Big Creek
      • Middle Branch Oswegatchie River
        • Palmer Creek
    • Little River
    • Robinson River
  • Chippewa Creek
  • Crooked Creek
  • Cranberry Creek
  • Mullet Creek
  • French Creek

Lake Ontario

• Chaumont River
• Perch River
• Black River
  • Deer River
    • West Branch Deer River
  • Beaver River
    • Black Creek
  • Crystal Creek
  • Independence River
  • Roaring Brook
  • Otter Creek
  • Moose River
    • Pine Creek
    • Middle Branch Moose River
      • North Branch Moose River
    • South Branch Moose River
      • Red River
      • Indian River
        • Cobblestone Creek
      • Otter Brook
  • Sugar River
    • Moose Creek
    • White River
  • Woodhull Creek
    • Little Woodhull Creek
  • Little Black Creek
• Mill Creek
• Stony Creek
• Sandy Creek (Jefferson County, New York)
  • South Sandy Creek
    • Abijah Creek
    • Grunley Creek
  • North Branch Sandy Creek
  • Gulf Stream
• Little Sandy Creek
• Salmon River
  • North Branch Salmon River
    • Mad River
  • East Branch Salmon River
• Little Salmon River
  • North Branch Little Salmon River
  • South Branch Little Salmon River

• Oswego River
  • Oneida River
    • Caughdenoy Creek
    • Oneida Lake:
      • Scriba Creek
      • Chittenango Creek
        • Limestone Creek
          • Butternut Creek
      • Oneida Creek
      • Fish Creek
        • Wood Creek
        • East Branch Fish Creek
          • Point Rock Creek
        • West Branch Fish Creek
          • Little River (Fish Creek tributary)
          • Mad River
            • Little River (Mad River tributary)
  • Seneca River
    • Onondaga Lake:
      • Ninemile Creek
      • Ley Creek
      • Onondaga Creek
    • Skaneateles Creek
    • Owasco Outlet
    • Clyde River
      • Canandaigua Outlet
        • Flint Creek
        • Canandaigua Lake:
          • West River
      • Ganargua Creek
        • Mud Creek
      • Sucker Brook
    • Cayuga Lake:
      • Trumansburg Creek
      • Taughannock Creek
      • Salmon Creek
      • Fall Creek
        • Virgil Creek
      • Cayuga Inlet
        • Six Mile Creek
          • Enfield Creek
          • Buttermilk Creek
    • Seneca Lake:
      • Keuka Lake Outlet
      • Catharine Creek
• Ninemile Creek
• Sterling Creek
• Irondequoit Creek

• Genesee River
  • Black Creek (Genesee River-Monroe County, New York)
  • Oatka Creek
  • Honeoye Creek
  • Canaseraga Creek
  • Wiscoy Creek
  • Rush Creek
  • Cold Creek
  • Caneadea Creek
  • Black Creek (Genesee River-Allegany County, New York)
  • Angelica Creek
    • Baker Creek
    • Black Creek (Angelica Creek tributary)
  • Van Campen Creek
  • Vandermark Creek
  • Dyke Creek
  • Chenunda Creek
  • Cryder Creek
• Salmon Creek
  • Otis Creek
• Sandy Creek (Monroe County, New York)
• Oak Orchard Creek
• Johnson Creek
• Eighteen Mile Creek
• Niagara River
  • Fish Creek
  • Bloody Run
  • Gill Creek
  • Cayuga Creek
  • Woods Creek
  • Burnt Ship Creek
  • Gun Creek
  • Little Sixmile Creek
  • Big Sixmile Creek
  • Spicer Creek
  • Tonawanda Creek
    • Ellicott Creek
  • Two Mile Creek
  • Scajaquada Creek

Lake Erie

• Buffalo River
  • Cazenovia Creek
    • East Branch Cazenovia Creek
    • West Branch Cazenovia Creek
  • Cayuga Creek (Erie County, New York)
  • Buffalo Creek
    • Hunters Creek
• Eighteen Mile Creek
  • South Branch Eighteenmile Creek
• Cattaraugus Creek
  • South Branch Cattaraugus Creek
    • Mansfield Creek
  • Buttermilk Creek
• Canadaway Creek
• Chautauqua Creek
• Twentymile Creek
• Silver Creek
• Big Sister Creek

Mississippi River Basin

• Mississippi River
  • Ohio River
    • Allegheny River
      • French Creek
      • Brokenstraw Creek
      • Conewango Creek
        • Stillwater Creek
        • Cassadaga Creek
          • Chadakoin River
      • Red House Brook
      • Little Valley Creek
      • Great Valley Creek
        • Wrights Creek
        • Forks Creek
        • Beaver Meadows Creek
        • Devereaux Branch
      • Tunungwant Creek
        • Rice Brook
          • Irish Brook
        • Bailley Brook
        • Leonard Brook
        • Limestone Brook
        • Nichols Run
      • Olean Creek
        • Ischua Creek
          • Gates Creek
        • Oil Creek
      • Haskell Creek
      • Dodge Creek
      • Oswayo Creek
        • Little Genesee Creek

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See also

• List of waterways
• List of canals in the United States
• List of rivers of the United States

External links

• New York Streamflow Data from the USGS

References

• USGS Geographic Names Information Service
• USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of New York (1974)