Geography Tool Shed : Minnesota Rivers

United States Rivers

Minnesota

River count	560
River miles	20,758

Large Bodies of Water

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Rivers

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Name	Length (miles)	Watershed Length (miles)
Ann River	16.8	29
Arrowhead Creek	19	19
Artichoke River	13.5	14
Ashley Creek	28.3	28
Ash River	33.9	51
Badger Creek	15.7	34
Baptism River	8.8	58
Baptism River - East Branch	17.8	18
Baptism River - West Branch	14.9	31
Barber Creek	14.7	15
Battle Brook	22.3	22
Battle River	17.9	72
Battle River - North Branch	13.7	14
Battle River - South Branch	40.7	41
Baudette River	20.3	20
Bear Creek (Root River - Middle Branch tributary)	15.6	16
Bear Creek (Root River - Middle Branch tributary)	28.4	28
Bear Creek (St. Croix River tributary)	33.8	34
Bear Creek (Zumbro River - South Fork tributary)	19.3	19
Bear River (Big Fork River tributary)	34.5	35
Bear River (Leech Lake River tributary)	12	12
Bear River (Sturgeon River (Little Fork River tributary))	40.3	40
Beaver Brook	41.5	42
Beaver Creek (Des Moines River tributary)	57.7	58
Beaver Creek - East Fork (Minnesota River tributary)	27.3	27
Beaver Creek (Minnesota River tributary)	13.3	70
Beaver Creek (Split Rock Creek tributary)	38.6	54
Beaver Creek - West Fork (Minnesota River tributary)	29.4	29
Beaver River (Cloquet River tributary)	16.3	16
Beaver River - East Branch (Lake Superior tributary)	21.9	22
Beaver River (Lake Superior tributary)	23.7	46
Belle Creek	28.6	29
Bevens Creek	30.8	49
Big Fork River	170.6	508
Big Rock Creek	18.6	19
Big Sucker Creek	18.2	18
Big Swamp Creek	15.5	16
Birch Creek	17.3	17
Blackduck River	51.5	175
Black Duck River	16.9	17
Blackhoof River	26.3	26
Black River (Rainy River tributary)	48.4	86
Black River (Red Lake River tributary)	33.8	34
Black River - South Fork (Rainy River tributary)	13.2	13
Black River - West Fork (Rainy River tributary)	24.7	25
Blood Run	5.8	6
Blueberry River	23.1	49
Blue Earth River	108.5	1,158
Blue Earth River - East Branch	59.2	75
Blue Earth River - Middle Branch	8.3	8
Blue Earth River - West Branch	10.6	11
Bluff Creek	17.8	18
Bogus Brook	18.6	19
Boiling Spring Creek	15.7	16
Bois de Sioux River	33.5	236
Bowstring River	42.1	78
Boy River	67.7	80
Brule River	40.6	41
Buckman Creek	17.8	18
Buffalo Creek	86.4	86
Buffalo River	142.1	332
Buffalo River - South Branch	57.2	173
Bug Creek	26.9	27
Bull Run Creek	18.9	19
Burnham Creek	36.6	37
Butterfield Creek	25.1	25
Caldwell Brook	49.7	50
Canby Creek	24.6	25
Canfield Creek	20	20
Cannon River	118.7	354
Canoe Creek	0	0
Caribou River	15	15
Carver Creek	31.5	32
Cascade Creek	20.8	21
Cascade River	19.2	19
Cat River	16.3	16
Cedar Creek (Elm Creek (Blue Earth River tributary))	22.1	22
Cedar Creek (Rum River tributary)	17.9	18
Cedar Creek (Rum River tributary)	28.3	28
Cedar River	54	214
Center Creek	33.7	55
Champepadan Creek	37.9	38
Chanarambie Creek	28.8	29
Chelsey Brook	17.2	17
Chetomba Creek	31.2	31
Chippewa River	153.5	363
Chippewa River - East Branch	67.6	110
Chub Creek	24.8	25
Clearwater River (Mississippi River tributary)	43.4	43
Clearwater River (Red Lake River tributary)	148.7	390
Cloquet River	105.3	192
Cloquet River - West Branch	21	21
Coal Mine Creek	18.8	19
Cobb Creek	1.9	2
Cobb River	85.3	140
Coon Creek (Big Fork River tributary)	18.3	18
Coon Creek (Mississippi River tributary)	24	24
Coon Creek (Redwood River tributary)	42.7	43
Cottonwood River	150.7	436
Crane Creek	16.9	17
Credit River	21.8	22
Crooked Creek	8.7	48
Crooked Creek - East Fork	21	21
Crooked Creek - West Fork	18.6	19
Cross River (Lake Superior tributary)	23.6	24
Cross River (Little Fork River tributary)	20	20
Crow Creek (Lost Creek (Lac qui Parle River - West Branch tributary))	10.5	11
Crown Creek	16.3	16
Crow River	24.8	506
Crow River - Middle Fork	45.1	45
Crow River - North Fork	160.9	260
Crow River - South Fork	116.3	222
Crow Wing River	115.3	859
Daggett Brook	23.2	23
Dark River	19.2	19
Darrigans Creek	16.4	16
Day Brook	24.7	25
Dead Moose River	15.1	15
Dead River	14.8	15
Deer Creek (Cedar River tributary)	8.3	8
Deer Creek (Root River - Middle Branch tributary)	39.1	61
Deerhorn Creek	21.7	22
Deer River	18.7	19
Dempsey Creek	15.9	16
Des Moines River	121.2	522
Des Moines River - East Fork	169.5	170
Dinner Creek	25.4	25
Dobbins Creek	18.1	18
Dodge Center Creek	31	31
Dry Weather Creek	17.4	17
Dumbbell River	18.7	19
Dutch Charley Creek	48	92
Eagle Creek	27.1	27
East Indian Creek	16.3	16
East River	21.6	22
East Savanna River	15.5	16
East Split Rock River	14.1	14
East Swan River	24.3	97
East Two River	26.1	26
Egg River	17	17
Eightmile Creek	18.9	19
Elk Creek (Okabena Creek tributary)	21.3	21
Elk Creek (Rock River tributary)	29.4	29
Elk River	84	241
Elm Creek (Blue Earth River tributary)	89.5	129
Elm Creek (Mississippi River tributary)	22.3	39
Elm Creek - South Fork (Blue Earth River tributary)	17.7	18
Embarrass River	50.5	51
Estes Brook	20.5	21
Farnham Creek	17.4	17
Felton Creek	31.7	32
Fishhook River	11.2	36
Flandreau Creek	27.9	47
Flint Creek	23.4	23
Floodwood River	35.7	51
Floodwood River - West Branch	15.2	15
Florida Creek	34.3	36
Fort Ridgely Creek	29	29
Foster Creek	15.5	16
French River	13	13
Gale Brook	16.6	17
Garvin Brook	19.4	37
Getchell Creek	19	19
Gilbert Creek	15.3	15
Gooseberry River	22.9	23
Goose Creek (Shell Rock River tributary)	11.4	11
Goose Creek (St. Croix River tributary)	28.9	29
Grand Marais Creek	37.4	37
Grant Creek	20.8	21
Grindstone River	6.7	33
Grindstone River - North Branch	9	9
Grindstone River - South Branch	17.4	17
Groundhouse River	39.8	59
Groundhouse River - South Fork	19.2	19
Gull River	20	20
Hawk Creek	61.7	93
Hay Creek (Buffalo River tributary)	17.6	18
Hay Creek (Lower Tamarack River tributary)	21.5	22
Hay Creek (Mississippi River tributary)	25.1	25
Hay Creek (Redeye River tributary)	18.9	19
Hay Creek (Red Lake River tributary)	32.8	33
Hay Creek (Stony Creek (Buffalo River - South Branch tributary))	25.2	25
Heron Lake Outlet	14	146
High Island Creek	67.8	68
Highwater Creek	44.2	44
Hilda Creek	16.6	17
Hillman Creek	17.1	17
Hill River	60.8	61
Isabella River	18.8	130
Island River	13.9	52
Jack Creek	63.8	64
Kabekona River	30.9	31
Kanaranzi Creek	47.6	64
Kanaranzi Creek - East Branch	16	16
Kawishiwi River	49.1	69
Keene Creek	15	15
Kettle River (Blueberry River tributary)	26	26
Kettle River (St. Croix River tributary)	83.6	292
Kettle River - West Branch	17.2	17
Kittleson Creek	17	17
Knife River (Lake Superior tributary)	23.8	43
Knife River (Snake River (St. Croix River tributary))	27.4	27
Knife River - West Branch (Lake Superior tributary)	19.6	20
Lac qui Parle River	119.3	337
Lac qui Parle River - West Branch	55.5	113
Langley River	11.8	12
Lazarus Creek	48.3	73
Leaf River	43.6	236
Leech Lake River	52.6	247
Lester River	19.4	19
Le Sueur Creek	26.4	26
Le Sueur River	110.6	359
Lily Creek	21.4	21
Lime Creek (Des Moines River tributary)	27.1	27
Lime Creek (Winnebago River tributary)	6.2	6
Little Ann River	12.4	12
Little Badger Creek	17.8	18
Little Beaver Creek	15.2	15
Little Cannon River	30.6	31
Little Cedar River	14.6	15
Little Chippewa River	30.7	31
Little Cobb River	36.1	55
Little Cottonwood River	82.2	82
Little Elk River	29.4	47
Little Elk River - South Branch	17.9	18
Little Fork River	161.5	584
Little Indian Sioux River	33.2	33
Little Isabella River	33	33
Little Minnesota River	5	5
Little Mississippi River	23.2	44
Little Net River	12	12
Little Nokasippi River	13.8	14
Little Partridge River	21.3	21
Little Pine River	30.1	54
Little Rock Creek (Little Rock River tributary)	17	17
Little Rock Creek (Mississippi River tributary)	33.5	34
Little Rock Creek (Red Lake River tributary)	15.9	16
Little Rock River	21.8	43
Little Sand Creek	16.8	17
Little Sioux River	16.9	37
Little Sioux River - West Fork	11.3	11
Little Tamarac River	14.2	14
Little Two River	16.2	16
Little Willow River	21.5	22
Lone Tree Creek	19.2	19
Long Prairie River	96	190
Lost Creek (Lac qui Parle River - West Branch tributary)	9.9	20
Lost River (Clearwater River (Red Lake River tributary))	76.2	215
Lost River (Nett Lake River tributary)	15.2	15
Lost River (Tamarac River (Red Lake River tributary))	24.5	25
Lower Tamarack River	39	95
Malone Creek	21.3	21
Manitou River	25.7	37
Manitou River - South Branch	11.5	12
Manomin Creek	24.8	25
Maple River	80.4	108
Marsh Creek	35.5	36
Marsh River	49.4	49
Mashaug Creek	17.6	18
Mayhew Creek	26.7	27
McDermott Creek	19	19
Meadow Creek	25.5	26
Medary Creek	14.3	14
Middle Branch Rush River	36.1	36
Middle River	96.1	96
Midway River	19.2	19
Mill Creek	15.1	15
Milliken Creek	20.7	21
Minnehaha Creek	36.8	37
Minneopa Creek	20.3	20
Minnesota River	356.9	4,166
Minnesota Slough	6	30
Mission Creek	25.2	25
Mississippi River	671.4	13,045
Mitawan Creek	15.5	16
Money Creek (Root River tributary)	15.8	16
Money Creek (Root River tributary)	26.3	26
Monighan Creek	1.2	1
Moose Brook	15.4	15
Moose Horn River	36.7	51
Moose Horn River - West Fork	13.8	14
Moose River (Thief River tributary)	23.3	23
Moose River (Willow River (Mississippi River tributary))	23.8	24
Moran Creek	23.2	23
Mosquito Creek	20.9	21
Mound Creek	24.7	25
Mud Brook	23.5	24
Mud Creek (Chippewa River - East Branch tributary)	18.6	19
Mud Creek (Chippewa River - East Branch tributary)	24	24
Mud Creek (Rock River tributary)	14.7	15
Mud Creek (Snake River (St. Croix River tributary))	28.9	29
Mud Creek (Yellow Medicine River tributary)	28.3	28
Muddy Creek	31.6	32
Mud Hen Creek	21.3	46
Mud River	34.2	34
Murphy Creek	16.1	16
Mustinka River	69.2	171
Necktie River	28.1	28
Nemadji River	35.1	110
Nemadji River - South Fork	12	49
Net River	24.6	37
Nett Lake River	45.8	61
Ninemile Creek	16	16
Nokasippi River	46.9	84
North Cormorant River	39.2	39
North Turtle River	23.4	23
North Two River	24.5	25
Oak Creek	20.8	21
O'Brien Creek	20.1	37
Ocheyedan River	8.6	9
Okabena Creek	46.9	68
Otter Creek (Cedar River tributary)	13.8	14
Otter Creek (Crow River - South Fork tributary)	18.9	19
Otter Creek (Little Rock River tributary)	3.9	4
Otter Creek (St. Louis River tributary)	18.8	19
Otter Tail River	182.2	321
Paleface River	26	26
Partridge River (Crow Wing River tributary)	32.6	54
Partridge River (St. Louis River tributary)	37	37
Pelican Creek	18.8	19
Pelican River (Otter Tail River tributary)	85.3	85
Pelican River (Vermilion River tributary)	36.4	36
Pell Creek	23.4	23
Peppermint Creek	15.3	15
Perch Creek	38.7	57
Perry Creek	16.4	16
Pigeon River	35.4	67
Pike Creek	23.5	24
Pike River	46.1	59
Pine Creek (Mississippi River tributary)	23.9	24
Pine Creek (Rush Creek (Root River tributary))	23.6	24
Pine Creek (Upper Iowa River tributary)	4.9	5
Pine River (Kettle River (St. Croix River tributary))	23	23
Pine River (Mississippi River tributary)	58.2	133
Pine River - South Fork (Mississippi River tributary)	20.9	21
Pine River (St. Louis River tributary)	18	18
Pipestone Creek	21.4	50
Pipestone Creek - North Branch	28.2	28
Platte River	61.8	134
Plouff Creek	15.4	15
Plum Creek (Big Fork River tributary)	18.6	19
Plum Creek (Cottonwood River tributary)	31.6	32
Pokegama Creek	22.5	23
Pokegama River	2	2
Pomme de Terre River	130.6	181
Poplar Creek	19	19
Poplar River (Lake Superior tributary)	27.1	42
Poplar River (Lost River (Clearwater River (Red Lake River tributary)))	58.8	59
Popple River	35.9	36
Porter Creek	27.3	27
Prairie Creek (Cannon River tributary)	29.5	30
Prairie Creek (Little Fork River tributary)	19	19
Prairie River (Mississippi River tributary)	63.1	126
Prairie River (Sandy River (Mississippi River tributary))	37.1	65
Prairie River - West Fork (Mississippi River tributary)	16.6	17
Purgatory Creek	16.1	16
Rabbit River	31.5	32
Rainy River	85.2	387
Ramsey Creek	15.7	16
Rapid River	71.7	140
Rapid River - East Fork	24.4	24
Rapid River - North Branch	44.3	44
Rat Root River	66.6	109
Rat Root River - East Branch	42.7	43
Redeye River	66.9	86
Red Lake River	229.5	1,280
Red River of the North	400	3,731
Redwood River	126.6	234
Reilly Brook	39.9	40
Rice Creek (Elk River tributary)	8	29
Rice Creek (Maple River tributary)	27.6	28
Rice Creek (Mississippi River tributary)	28.7	29
Riceford Creek	32	32
Rice River (Big Fork River tributary)	14.9	32
Rice River (Little Fork River tributary)	53.2	53
Rice River (Mississippi River tributary)	57.5	58
Ripple River	42.6	43
Rock Creek	18.8	19
Rock River	91.2	345
Rock River - East Branch	17.2	17
Rollingstone Creek	17.4	17
Root River	81.8	599
Root River - Middle Branch	11.6	116
Root River - North Branch	68.6	69
Root River - South Branch	63	120
Root River - South Fork	52.4	102
Roseau River	118.3	168
Roseau River - South Fork	50.1	50
Rose Creek	27	27
Roy Lake Creek	15.7	16
Ruffy Brook	26.4	26
Rum River	160.2	402
Rum River - West Branch	56.4	77
Rush Creek (Elm Creek (Mississippi River tributary))	16.9	17
Rush Creek (Root River tributary)	27.6	51
Rush Creek (St. Croix River tributary)	26.2	26
Rush Creek (Straight River (Cannon River tributary))	15.2	15
Rush River	13	90
Rush River - North Branch	6.8	43
Rush River - South Branch	34.2	34
Salem Creek	23.7	24
Sand Creek (Minnesota River tributary)	37.5	65
Sand Creek (St. Croix River tributary)	43.3	60
Sand Hill River	105.2	122
Sand River	13.2	13
Sandy River (Mississippi River tributary)	36.9	102
Sandy River (Red Lake River tributary)	37.9	38
Sauk River	122.6	170
Schoolcraft River	35.9	36
Seelye Brook	15.8	16
Sevenmile Creek	18	18
Shakopee Creek	50.8	51
Shannon River	21.7	22
Shell River	49	135
Shell Rock River	20	38
Shingobee River	21	21
Shotley Brook	18.7	19
Silver Creek (Bevens Creek tributary)	18	18
Silver Creek (Lost River (Clearwater River (Red Lake River tributary)))	19.5	20
Sixmile Brook	16.1	16
Skunk River	37.2	72
Sleepy Eye Creek	50.3	50
Snake River (Isabella River tributary)	11.3	11
Snake River (Red River of the North tributary)	91	215
Snake River - South Branch (Red River of the North tributary)	27.5	28
Snake River (St. Croix River tributary)	104.2	314
South Bluff Creek	19.5	20
South Cormorant River	31.2	48
South Creek	39.8	40
South Kawishiwi River	19.8	20
South Two River	22.9	23
Split Rock Creek	33.7	137
Split Rock River	20.5	21
Spring Branch Creek	18.6	19
Spring Creek (Big Sioux River tributary)	12.7	13
Spring Creek (Minnesota River tributary)	20.6	21
Spring Creek (Mississippi River tributary)	17.4	17
Spring Creek (Wild Rice River tributary)	19.6	20
Spring Creek (Yellow Medicine River tributary)	39.9	40
Spring Valley Creek	21.6	22
Spruce Creek	15.8	16
Spunk Creek	24.2	24
Stanchfield Creek	30.2	30
St. Croix River	129.2	1,141
Steamboat River	5.7	34
Stewart River	16.9	17
St. Francis River	79.1	101
St. James Creek	29	54
St. Louis River	193.1	1,011
Stoney Brook	16.2	16
Stony Brook	20.7	21
Stony Creek (Buffalo River - South Branch tributary)	37	62
Stony Creek (St. Louis River tributary)	19.7	20
Stony River	43.2	43
Stony Run	15.3	15
Straight River (Cannon River tributary)	55.6	103
Straight River (Fishhook River tributary)	25.2	25
Stump River	15.1	15
Sturgeon River (Big Fork River tributary)	26.2	52
Sturgeon River - East Branch (Little Fork River tributary)	13.3	13
Sturgeon River (Little Fork River tributary)	51.5	146
Sucker Creek	17.5	18
Sunrise River	44.1	87
Sunrise River - North Branch	25	25
Sunrise River - West Branch	17.6	18
Swamp River	16.3	16
Swan Creek	21.2	21
Swan Lake Outlet	17.7	18
Swan River (Mississippi River tributary)	73.8	74
Swan River (Mississippi River tributary)	38.6	39
Swift River	12.4	12
Tait River	14.8	15
Tamarack River	28	28
Tamarac River (Red Lake River tributary)	31.2	70
Tamarac River (Red River of the North tributary)	79.1	79
Temperance River	41.1	57
Tenmile Creek	31.7	32
Thief River	43.2	67
Third River	34.8	35
Threemile Creek	48.6	49
Tibbetts Brook	17	17
Toad River	21.6	22
Tom Creek	0.8	1
Trott Brook	15.3	15
Trout Brook	24.9	25
Trout Run	17.2	17
Turtle Creek (Cedar River tributary)	25	25
Turtle Creek (Long Prairie River tributary)	28.2	28
Turtle Creek (Straight River (Cannon River tributary))	15.6	16
Turtle River	50	73
Twelvemile Creek	55.1	102
Twelvemile Creek - West Branch	27.1	27
Twelvemile Creek - West Fork	19.3	19
Twin Creek	17.1	17
Two Island River	15.9	16
Two River	5.6	53
Two Rivers	28	203
Two Rivers - Middle Branch	33.7	34
Two Rivers - North Branch	63.5	64
Two Rivers - South Branch	78.2	78
Upper Iowa River	23.5	28
Upper Tamarack River	8.9	9
Us-Kab-Wan-Ka River	21	21
Valley River	24.9	25
Vermilion River	47.7	101
Vermillion River	59.2	71
Vermillion River - South Branch	11.9	12
Vermillion Slough	6.6	78
Wabasha Creek	24.1	24
Wapsipinicon River	4.4	4
Warroad River	3.4	36
Warroad River - East Branch	32.4	32
Washington Creek	21.3	21
Watab River	9.9	24
Watab River - South Fork	13.8	14
Water Hen Creek	24.9	25
Watonwan River	112.1	339
Watonwan River - North Fork	39.2	39
Watonwan River - South Fork	76.6	77
Watson Creek	21.3	21
Wells Creek	28.4	28
West Split Rock River	15.6	30
West Swan River	42.3	42
West Two River	28	28
Whisky Creek	31.4	31
Whisky Creek	20.8	21
White Earth River	30.4	30
Whiteface River	66.6	167
Whiteface River - North Branch	25.5	26
Whiteface River - South Branch	22.2	22
Whitewater River	18.2	110
Whitewater River - Middle Fork	22.5	23
Whitewater River - North Fork	34.1	34
Whitewater River - South Fork	35.1	35
Wild Rice River	185.3	414
Wild Rice River - South Branch	61.4	61
Willow Creek (Flandreau Creek tributary)	19.4	19
Willow Creek (Root River - South Branch tributary)	15.8	16
Willow River (Kettle River (St. Croix River tributary))	31.4	31
Willow River (Little Fork River tributary)	33.2	33
Willow River (Mississippi River tributary)	77.3	101
Wing River	48.4	48
Winnebago Creek	24	24
Winter Road River	39.1	54
Wisel Creek	17.6	18
Wolf Creek	18.4	18
Wolverton Creek	20.4	20
Woodbury Creek	15.1	15
Yellow Bank River	12	47
Yellow Bank River - North Fork	9.1	9
Yellow Bank River - South Fork	25.9	26
Yellow Medicine River	108.1	259
Yellow Medicine River - North Branch	37.1	37
Yellow Medicine River - South Branch	45.1	45
Zumbro River	64.7	451
Zumbro River - Middle Fork	52.9	182
Zumbro River - Middle Fork - North Branch	31.1	31
Zumbro River - Middle Fork - South Branch	46.6	78
Zumbro River - North Fork	57.6	83
Zumbro River - South Fork	57.6	121

Note: Lengths are for the part of the river/watershed within the boundary of this state.

Note: Mostly rivers/streams 15+ miles in length.

Data from United States Geological Survey