Geography Tool Shed : North Carolina Rivers

United States Rivers

North Carolina

River count	414
River miles	11,634

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Rivers

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Name	Length (miles)	Watershed Length (miles)
Aarons Creek	14	14
Abbotts Creek	46.3	78
Ahoskie Creek	29.4	29
Alarka Creek	19	19
Ararat River	33.2	81
Ashes Creek	15.3	15
Bachelor Creek	20.6	21
Back Swamp (Cypress Creek tributary)	15.5	16
Back Swamp (Lumber River tributary)	17.6	18
Bawdy Creek	16	16
Bear Creek (Deep River tributary)	21.7	44
Bear Creek (Neuse River tributary)	20.4	20
Bear Creek (Rocky River (Deep River tributary))	25.1	25
Bear Creek (South Yadkin River tributary)	18.1	18
Bear Swamp	16.9	17
Belews Creek	18.7	19
Bennetts Creek	24.9	25
Big Alamance Creek	37.9	109
Big Bear Creek	22.3	22
Big Beaver Island Creek	16	28
Big Bluewing Creek	7.9	8
Big Crabtree Creek	15	15
Big Creek	20.1	20
Big Horse Creek	15.7	16
Big Laurel Creek	33.8	49
Big Laurel Creek	15.4	15
Big Marsh Swamp	25.5	26
Big Mountain Creek	22.8	23
Big Swamp	17.2	17
Big Swamp Canal	30.2	101
Black Creek (Contentnea Creek tributary)	15.2	15
Black Creek (Neuse River tributary)	32.4	32
Black River (Cape Fear River tributary)	67.1	419
Black River (South River tributary)	31.5	32
Blackwater River (Chowan River tributary)	0.2	0
Brasstown Creek	8.7	9
Brice Creek	16.7	17
Broad River (Congaree River tributary)	77.5	422
Brown Creek	43.4	43
Brush Creek (Deep River tributary)	23.4	35
Brush Creek (Little River (New River tributary))	20.9	21
Buck Creek	2.8	3
Buckhorn Creek	16.7	17
Buffalo Creek (Broad River tributary)	36.2	36
Buffalo Creek (Little River (Neuse River tributary))	33.5	34
Buffalo Creek (Reedy Fork tributary)	8.6	48
Buffalo Creek (Yadkin River tributary)	15.2	15
Cabin Creek	22.3	22
Cane Creek (Catawba River tributary)	9.6	10
Cane Creek (French Broad River tributary)	20.8	21
Cane Creek (Haw River tributary)	25.1	25
Cane River	38.9	39
Cape Fear River	193.6	2,186
Caraway Creek	26.3	26
Cashie River	54	79
Catawba Creek	15.6	16
Catawba River	172.3	982
Catawba River - North Fork	22.9	23
Catawba River - South Fork	55.5	209
Catheys Creek	19.2	19
Cedar Creek	21.5	22
Chattooga River (Tugaloo River tributary)	12.3	12
Cheoah River	18.4	75
Chowan River	52.1	238
Clark Creek	21.9	22
Clark Fork	1.3	1
Coddle Creek	27.4	27
Cokey Swamp	16.4	16
Cold Water Creek	20.3	42
Colly Creek	39.4	39
Conetoe Creek	25	25
Conoconnara Swamp	18.9	19
Conoho Creek	37.8	38
Contentnea Creek	98.1	255
Core Creek	22.1	22
Country Line Creek	41.2	55
Cove Creek	19.5	20
Cow Branch	15.8	16
Crabtree Creek	29.6	30
Crane Creek (Little River (Cape Fear River tributary))	23.7	24
Crane Creek (Yadkin River tributary)	19.7	20
Crooked Creek (Catawba River tributary)	17.3	17
Crooked Creek (Great Pee Dee River tributary)	3.7	4
Crooked Creek - North Fork (Rocky River (Pee Dee River tributary))	11.6	12
Crooked Creek (Rocky River (Pee Dee River tributary))	13.2	39
Crooked Creek - South Fork (Rocky River (Pee Dee River tributary))	13.9	14
Crooked Creek (Tar River tributary)	20.4	20
Crowders Creek	16.1	16
Cullasaja River	24.6	25
Cutawhiskie Creek	17.1	17
Cypress Creek (Northeast Cape Fear River tributary)	11.2	27
Cypress Creek (Tar River tributary)	14.8	15
Dan River	101	487
Deep Creek (Fishing Creek tributary)	30.3	30
Deep Creek (Roanoke River tributary)	16.1	16
Deep Creek (Tuckasegee River tributary)	17.1	17
Deep Creek (Yadkin River tributary)	3.5	49
Deep River	113.2	413
Deep River - East Fork	9.6	10
Deep River - West Fork	12.6	13
Drowning Creek	43.2	59
Durham Creek	18.7	19
Dutch Buffalo Creek	25.1	25
Dutchman Creek	32.3	32
Dutchmans Creek	8.5	42
Eastatoe Creek	1	1
Elk Creek	22.4	22
Elkin Creek	18.6	19
Elk River (Watauga River tributary)	14.9	15
Eno River	38.1	89
Falling Creek	16	16
First Broad River	64.6	81
Fisher River	42.5	60
Fishing Creek	108.9	244
Flat River	18.8	52
Flat Swamp Creek	19	19
Forbush Creek	15.3	15
Fork Creek	15.3	15
Fourth Creek	30.8	31
French Broad River	115.1	722
French Broad River - East Fork	12	12
French Broad River - North Fork	13.5	14
French Broad River - West Fork	13	13
Gallberry Swamp	7.4	26
Goose Creek	15.9	16
Goshen Swamp	34.5	35
Grants Creek	19.1	19
Grassy Creek	24.2	36
Great Coharie Creek	52.9	94
Green River	59.9	90
Grindle Creek	27.9	28
Grissett Swamp	21.9	22
Gumberry Swamp	17.5	18
Gum Swamp Creek	32.6	48
Gunpowder Creek	19.1	19
Hamby Creek	11.6	32
Hanging Dog Creek	14.9	15
Hannah Creek	22.9	23
Hardison Mill Creek	15.9	16
Harrison Creek	16.3	16
Haw River	99.6	453
Hazel Creek	16.5	17
Helton Creek	11.2	11
Henry Fork	46.9	47
Hitchcock Creek	24.2	24
Hiwassee River	59.3	131
Hogans Creek	29	29
Holly Shelter Creek	26.6	61
Hominy Creek	19.8	33
Horsepasture River	16.3	16
Hungry River	12.5	13
Hunters Creek	16.1	16
Hunting Creek	56.7	96
Hyco Creek	18.1	18
Hyco River	22.4	89
Indian Creek	23.1	23
Irish Buffalo Creek	21.3	21
Irish Creek	13.5	14
Island Creek	8.3	21
Ivy Creek	19.2	19
Jacob Fork	42	42
Joes Creek	15.8	16
Johns River	40.4	80
Jonathans Creek	18.4	18
Jones Creek	12.7	39
Jones Creek - North Fork	11.9	12
Jones Creek - South Fork	14.5	15
Jordan Creek	20.1	20
Juniper Creek	16.6	17
Killian Creek	16.5	17
Kings Creek	6.7	7
Knap of Reeds Creek	17.3	17
Knob Creek	16.5	17
Lanes Creek	54.7	55
Ledge Creek	16.9	17
Leepers Creek	16.5	17
Leith Creek	20.8	21
Lewis Fork	3.6	36
Lewis Fork - North Prong	16.1	16
Lewis Fork - South Prong	16.6	17
Lick Creek	17.8	18
Limestone Creek	14.9	15
Linville River	44.5	45
Little Alamance Creek	12.1	12
Little Alamance Creek	19.2	19
Little Beaver Island Creek	12.3	12
Little Brush Creek	11.5	12
Little Coharie Creek	41.1	41
Little Contentnea Creek	34.2	34
Little Fisher River	17.2	17
Little Fishing Creek	32.8	54
Little Grassy Creek	12.2	12
Little Hunting Creek	15.8	16
Little Island Creek	12.4	12
Little Marsh Swamp	19	19
Little Pocket Creek	12.4	12
Little Raft Swamp	18.9	19
Little River (Cape Fear River tributary)	73.6	97
Little River (Eno River tributary)	13.1	51
Little River (French Broad River tributary)	20.2	20
Little River (Neuse River tributary)	86.1	120
Little River (New River tributary)	32.3	53
Little River - North Fork (Eno River tributary)	19.7	20
Little River (Pee Dee River tributary)	62.5	86
Little River - South Fork (Eno River tributary)	18.4	18
Little River - West Fork (Pee Dee River tributary)	23.8	24
Little Rockfish Creek	22.9	23
Little Snowbird Creek	15.8	16
Little Sugar Creek	20.4	20
Little Swift Creek	15.1	15
Little Tennessee River	84.2	434
Little Uwharrie River	12.6	13
Little Yadkin River	12.5	13
Livingston Creek	22.5	23
Lockwoods Folly River	25.1	25
Long Creek (Catawba River - South Fork tributary)	19.8	20
Long Creek (Catawba River tributary)	15.3	15
Long Creek (Northeast Cape Fear River tributary)	26.3	26
Long Creek (Rocky River (Pee Dee River tributary))	28	50
Lovills Creek	7.1	7
Lower Creek	22.8	23
Lower Little River	23.5	24
Lumber River	115.7	380
Lyle Creek	18.1	18
Lynches River	6.6	7
Marks Creek	22.1	22
Matrimony Creek	11.6	12
Maxwell Creek	16.7	17
Mayo Creek	16.1	16
Mayo River	15.8	16
McAlpine Creek	20.7	21
McLendons Creek	30	30
Meherrin River	46.2	105
Middle Creek	46.6	47
Middle Little River	24.2	24
Mill Creek	31	54
Mills River	6.2	40
Mills River - North Fork	6.1	6
Mills River - South Fork	27.6	28
Mingo Swamp	22.5	23
Mitchell River	21.8	40
Mitchell River - South Fork	17.8	18
Moccasin Creek (Contentnea Creek tributary)	23.7	24
Moccasin Creek (Neuse River tributary)	23.2	23
Moon Creek	18.8	19
Moores Creek	24	24
Morgan Creek	21.8	22
Mud Creek	18.4	18
Muddy Creek (Old Catawba River tributary)	2	37
Muddy Creek - South Fork (Yadkin River tributary)	14.6	15
Muddy Creek (Yadkin River tributary)	32.3	47
Mulberry Creek (Johns River tributary)	15.8	16
Mulberry Creek (Yadkin River tributary)	19.7	20
Nahunta Swamp	27.8	28
Naked Creek	15.3	15
Nantahala River	47.8	48
Neuse River	253	1,364
New Hope Creek	45.9	84
New River (Atlantic Ocean tributary)	52.2	77
New River (Kanawha River tributary)	8.6	244
New River - North Fork (Kanawha River tributary)	50.3	93
New River - South Fork (Kanawha River tributary)	89.4	89
Nolichucky River	10.1	172
North Buffalo Creek	17.6	18
North Deep Creek	19.9	20
Northeast Cape Fear River	134.7	366
Northeast Creek	16.7	17
North Flat River	15	15
North Little Hunting Creek	23.9	24
North Mayo River	0.2	0
North Muddy Creek	18.3	18
North Pacolet River	18.1	18
North Toe River	75.4	123
Northwest River	0.6	1
Nottely River	18.5	19
Nottoway River	0.4	0
Nutbush Creek	17.7	18
Occoneechee Creek	15	15
Oconaluftee River	18.7	47
Old Catawba River	6	43
Otter Creek	18.3	18
Pamlico River	38.3	929
Pasquotank River	44	44
Pauls Creek	6.5	7
Pee Dee River	58	2,060
Perquimans River	31.4	31
Peters Creek	9.3	9
Pigeon River	43.7	99
Pigeon River - East Fork	18.1	18
Pigeon River - West Fork	18.5	19
Pocket Creek	16.9	29
Polecat Creek	19.3	19
Potecasi Creek	42	59
Pungo River	30.1	30
Quankey Creek	19.3	19
Raft Swamp	35.3	54
Raven Fork	16.7	28
Raven Fork - Straight Fork	11.6	12
Reddies River	15.7	27
Reddies River - North Fork	11.6	12
Reedy Creek (Little Fishing Creek tributary)	21.2	21
Reedy Creek (Rocky River (Pee Dee River tributary))	15.5	16
Reedy Fork	43.8	92
Reems Creek	15.9	16
Richardson Creek	44.5	45
Rich Fork	20.2	20
Richland Creek	15.5	16
Roanoke River	157.6	870
Roaring River	10.8	47
Roaring River - East Prong	15.2	15
Roaring River - Middle Prong	9.3	9
Roaring River - West Prong	11.9	12
Rockfish Creek (Cape Fear River tributary)	51.6	75
Rockfish Creek (Northeast Cape Fear River tributary)	26.2	26
Rocky Creek	42.8	43
Rocky River (Deep River tributary)	42.9	68
Rocky River (Pee Dee River tributary)	94.8	409
Rocky Swamp	19.2	19
Roquist Creek	25.1	25
Sandy Creek (Deep River tributary)	20.8	21
Sandy Creek (Swift Creek (Tar River tributary))	46.7	47
Sandymush Creek	21.6	22
Sandy Run	23	23
Sandy Run Swamp	15.8	16
Santeetlah Creek	16.8	17
Sapony Creek	22.5	23
Scott Creek	15.1	15
Second Broad River	47.3	67
Second Creek	19.1	19
Seven Creeks	4.3	26
Shaken Creek	18.1	18
Shallotte River	17	17
Shelton Laurel Creek	15.4	15
Shocco Creek	31.1	31
Shoe Heel Creek	31.5	52
Silver Creek	18.2	18
Sixmile Creek	10.3	10
Six Runs Creek	39.3	39
Smith River	5.1	5
Snowbird Creek	24.4	40
Snow Creek	19.8	20
Somerton Creek	4.6	5
South Buffalo Creek	22.1	22
South Country Line Creek	13.6	14
South Creek	19.6	20
South Deep Creek	25.8	26
South Flat River	18	18
South Hominy Creek	13.2	13
South Hyco Creek	24.9	25
South Muddy Creek	16.9	17
South River	83.6	155
South Toe River	32.8	33
Southwest Creek	22.4	22
Southwest Creek	24.4	24
South Yadkin River	75.4	313
Spring Creek	23.2	23
Stewarts Creek	16.7	23
Stinking Quarter Creek	4.9	40
Stinking Quarter Creek - North Prong	19.5	20
Stinking Quarter Creek - South Prong	15.2	15
Stocking Head Creek	10.4	27
Stony Creek (Haw River tributary)	17.6	18
Stony Creek (Tar River tributary)	23.7	24
Stony Fork	16.7	17
Sugar Creek	12.1	53
Swannanoa River	24	36
Swannanoa River - North Fork	12	12
Swearing Creek	18.6	19
Sweetwater Creek	10.8	27
Swift Creek (Neuse River tributary)	50.1	97
Swift Creek (Neuse River tributary)	46.1	61
Swift Creek (Tar River tributary)	50.4	97
Tabbs Creek	21.7	22
Tallulah River	3.5	4
Tar River	198.3	785
Tellico River	5.8	6
Tenmile Swamp	19	19
Third Creek	49	80
Thompson Creek	1.2	1
Toisnot Swamp	34.2	34
Toms Creek	17.6	18
Town Creek (Cape Fear River tributary)	33.2	33
Town Creek (Tar River tributary)	33.5	50
Town Fork Creek	28.2	28
Toxaway River	12.4	36
Tranters Creek	37.9	38
Trent River	88.3	105
Troublesome Creek	25.1	25
Tuckasegee River	65.9	160
Tuckasegee River - West Fork	15.2	15
Turkey Creek	21.9	22
Turnbull Creek	28	28
Twelvemile Creek (Catawba River tributary)	3	39
Twelvemile Creek - East Fork	13.2	13
Twelvemile Creek - West Fork	12.6	13
Upper Broad Creek	23.4	23
Upper Creek	22.4	22
Upper Little River (Cape Fear River tributary)	53.4	53
Upper Little River (Catawba River tributary)	19.5	20
Uwharrie River	62.7	102
Valley River	30	30
Waccamaw River	47.8	115
Walnut Creek	18.3	18
Warrior Fork	5.6	42
Watauga River	27	42
Waxhaw Creek	15.3	15
White Marsh	24.8	25
White Oak Creek	17.1	17
White Oak River	40.5	57
Whitewater River	7.7	8
Wiccacon River	21.3	51
Wilson Creek	23.3	23
Wolf Island Creek	22.6	23
Yadkin River	209.6	1,355

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