Geography Tool Shed : New Jersey Rivers

United States Rivers

New Jersey

River count	109
River miles	2,371

Large Bodies of Water

Atlantic Ocean
Delaware Bay

Rivers

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Name	Length (miles)	Watershed Length (miles)
Alloway Creek	24.8	25
Arthur Kill	13.6	41
Assiscunk Creek	18.6	19
Assunpink Creek	23	23
Batsto River	22.9	23
Beaver Brook	14.2	14
Beden Brook	11.3	11
Big Flat Brook	16.5	17
Big Timber Creek	6.1	28
Big Timber Creek - North Branch	10.1	10
Big Timber Creek - South Branch	11.4	11
Blacks Creek	13	13
Bound Brook	13	27
Cedar Creek (Atlantic Ocean tributary)	18.9	19
Cedar Creek (Delaware Bay tributary)	16.9	17
Clove Brook	12	12
Cohansey River	34.4	34
Cooper River	16.1	16
Crafts Creek	12.7	13
Cranbury Brook	14.3	14
Crosswicks Creek	25.4	44
Deep Run	11.7	12
Delaware River	183.4	756
Dennis Creek	25.4	25
Dividing Creek	25.2	25
Doctors Creek	18.4	18
Flat Brook	11.6	41
Forked River	0.7	11
Forked River - North Branch	10.2	10
Great Egg Harbor River	54.9	87
Green Brook	13.7	14
Green Pond Brook	11.6	12
Greenwood Branch	9.2	21
Hackensack River	20.2	30
Hohokus Brook	12.2	12
Hospitality Branch	15.9	16
Hudson River	27.2	411
Lamington River	30.3	48
Lawrence Brook	15.4	15
Little Flat Brook	12.7	13
Lockatong Creek	15.7	16
Long House Creek	5.8	6
Lopatcong Creek	11.9	12
Mahwah River	0.8	1
Manalapan Brook	22.3	22
Manasquan River	26.6	27
Mantua Creek	19.6	20
Matchaponix Brook	11.8	12
Maurice River	51.5	93
Metedeconk River	6.5	52
Metedeconk River - North Branch	22.4	22
Metedeconk River - South Branch	22.7	23
Mill Creek	12.6	13
Millstone River	43.3	93
Muddy Run	16.1	16
Mulhockaway Creek	9.3	23
Mullica River	49	143
Musconetcong River	50.3	50
Nantuxent Creek	12.1	12
Oldmans Creek	23.3	23
Oranoaken Creek	19.3	19
Oswego River	23.6	24
Papakating Creek	20.2	32
Pascack Brook	10	10
Passaic River	87	279
Paulins Kill	41.6	42
Pennsauken Creek	3.8	26
Pennsauken Creek - North Branch	10.1	10
Pennsauken Creek - South Branch	12	12
Pequannock River	32.5	51
Pequest River	35.8	50
Pochuck Creek	4.7	14
Pohatcong Creek	30.7	31
Pole Bridge Branch	12.1	12
Pompton River	6.7	73
Raccoon Creek	22.6	23
Rahway River	27.1	27
Ramapo River	14.9	16
Rancocas Creek	8.3	94
Rancocas Creek - North Branch	28.6	50
Rancocas Creek - South Branch	21.8	36
Rancocas Creek - South Branch - Southwest Branch	13.8	14
Raritan River	30.9	371
Raritan River - North Branch	23.8	72
Raritan River - South Branch	53.3	76
Rockaway Creek	17.6	18
Rockaway River	41.2	74
Saddle River	19.3	32
Salem River	36.6	37
Scotland Run	13.6	14
Shark River	11.7	12
Sleeper Branch	14.3	14
South River (Great Egg Harbor River tributary)	16.3	16
South River (Raritan River tributary)	11.6	57
Spruce Run	13.7	14
Still Run	12.2	12
Stony Brook	24.1	24
Stow Creek	20.7	21
Third River	13.3	13
Toms River	41.7	42
Tuckahoe River	27.6	28
Wading River	10	56
Wading River - West Branch	22.7	23
Wallkill River	28.9	75
Wanaque River	18.3	18
Wawayanda Creek	3.7	10
West Creek	28.5	29
Whippany River	20.8	21
Wickecheoke Creek	15.1	15

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