Geography Tool Shed : Washington Rivers

United States Rivers

Washington

River count	398
River miles	11,807

Large Bodies of Water

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Rivers

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Name	Length (miles)	Watershed Length (miles)
Adler Creek	34.4	54
Ahtanum Creek	24.5	62
Ahtanum Creek - North Fork	21.8	22
Ahtanum Creek - South Fork	15.4	15
Alkali Flat Creek	46.5	47
Alpowa Creek	25.1	25
American River	24.6	25
Andrews Creek	12.4	12
Antoine Creek	20.2	20
Asotin Creek	15.5	58
Asotin Creek - North Fork	18.3	18
Bacon Creek	13.7	14
Beckler River	13.8	27
Big Beaver Creek	17.8	18
Big Creek	12.9	13
Big Muddy Creek	11.1	11
Big Quilcene River	19.8	20
Bingham Creek	14.9	15
Black River	29.7	42
Bogachiel River	48.7	121
Bonaparte Creek	31.8	32
Boulder Creek (Chewuch River tributary)	7.6	18
Boulder Creek (Kettle River tributary)	3.1	22
Boulder Creek - North Fork (Chewuch River tributary)	10.7	11
Boulder Creek - South Fork (Kettle River tributary)	19.3	19
Boulder River	14.4	14
Bumping River	32.7	57
Butter Creek	11.6	12
Buttermilk Creek	2.6	13
Buttermilk Creek - East Fork	10.5	11
Cabin Creek	11.1	11
Calawah River	10.6	73
Calawah River - North Fork	25.1	25
Calawah River - South Fork	22.5	37
Calispell Creek	12.7	27
Calispell Creek - North Fork	14.1	14
Canniwai Creek	30.3	30
Canyon Creek (Lewis River tributary)	18.8	19
Canyon Creek (Nooksack River - North Fork tributary)	16.2	16
Canyon Creek (Stillaguaimish River - South Fork tributary)	11.7	12
Canyon River	20.8	21
Cape Labelle Creek	10.7	11
Carbon River	33.4	71
Caribou Creek	21.3	21
Cascade River	18.8	19
Cedar Creek (Salmon Creek (Cowlitz River tributary))	14.6	15
Cedar River	51.7	52
Chamokane Creek	29.4	29
Chehalis River	141.9	750
Chehalis River - South Fork	33.8	34
Chelan River	55.5	113
Cherry Creek	1.8	43
Chewelah Creek	2.3	23
Chewelah Creek - North Fork	20.7	21
Chewuch River	48.3	110
Chimacum Creek	13.3	13
Chiwana River	42.9	43
Chiwaukum Creek	11.9	12
Cispus River	42.2	86
Cispus River - North Fork	15.3	15
Clallam River	14.5	15
Clear Creek	15.9	16
Clearwater Creek	12.4	12
Clearwater River (Queets River tributary)	39.6	40
Clearwater River (White River (Puyallup River tributary))	71	71
Cle Elum River	38	38
Cloquallum Creek	24	24
Clover Creek	13.9	14
Coal Creek	35.1	35
Coleman Creek	25.5	26
Columbia River	748	7,630
Colville River	57.6	174
Company Creek	11.6	12
Cook Creek	14.7	15
Copalis River	25.3	25
Cottonwood Creek (Colville River tributary)	13.4	13
Cottonwood Creek (Rock Creek (Palouse River tributary))	32.6	33
Cow Creek	52.1	52
Coweeman River	36.7	37
Cowiche Creek	7.9	55
Cowiche Creek - North Fork	19.6	20
Cowiche Creek - South Fork	27.4	27
Cowlitz River	127	595
Cowlitz River - Clear Fork	17.9	18
Cowlitz River - Muddy Fork	14.2	14
Crab Creek	152.4	301
Crow Creek	17.4	17
Day Creek	12.8	13
Deadman Creek (Little Spokane River tributary)	22.7	23
Deadman Creek (Snake River tributary)	13.1	48
Decker Creek	16.5	17
Deep Creek (Columbia River tributary)	13.5	26
Deep Creek - South Fork (Columbia River tributary)	12.1	12
Deep Creek (Spokane River tributary)	23.6	24
Deep River	11.7	12
Deer Creek (Lewis River tributary)	24.1	24
Deer Creek (Little Spokane River tributary)	16.1	16
Deer Creek (Stillaguaimish River - North Fork tributary)	24.4	24
Deschutes River	53.6	54
Diamond Fork	13.8	14
Dickey River	8.3	28
Dickey River - East Fork	19.4	19
Diobsud Creek	11.7	12
Dosewallips River	30	30
Douglas Creek	51.2	51
Downey Creek	10.9	11
Dragoon Creek	31.5	32
Dry Creek (Satus Creek tributary)	25.8	26
Dry Creek (Walla Walla River tributary)	35.2	35
Duckabush River	25.7	26
Dungeness River	31.5	49
Duwamish River	5.4	107
Early Winters Creek	16.8	17
East Foster Creek	24.5	25
Eightmile Creek	18.3	18
Elk Creek	19.1	19
Elwha River	44.2	44
Entiat River	56.8	84
Eureka Creek	11.5	12
Finney Creek	25.5	26
Foster Creek	1.9	43
George Creek	24.5	25
Germany Creek	13.6	14
Glade Creek	45.1	72
Glade Creek - East Branch	26.5	27
Gold Creek	14.8	15
Goodell Creek	13.3	13
Goodman Creek	15.6	16
Grande Ronde River	38.3	59
Granite Creek	13.2	23
Granite Creek - West Fork	9.3	9
Grays River	31.9	32
Gray Wolf River	17.1	17
Green River (Duwamish River tributary)	85.8	101
Green River (Toutle River - North Fork tributary)	37.3	37
Greenwater River	24.4	24
Hall Creek	24.9	25
Hamma Hamma River	17.8	18
Hangman Creek	58.4	89
Hanson Creek	13.3	13
Hawk Creek	26.8	27
Hoh River	57.4	78
Hoh River - South Fork	20.9	21
Hoko River	25.5	26
Hoquiam River	15.8	40
Hoquiam River - East Fork	24.1	24
Huckleberry Creek	15.3	15
Humptulips River	38.8	107
Humptulips River - East Fork	32.3	32
Humptulips River - West Fork	35.4	35
Icicle Creek	32.8	44
Illobot Creek	16.4	16
Imbler Creek	18.2	18
Ingalls Creek	15.1	15
Iron Creek	11.2	11
Jack Creek	11.6	12
Jackman Creek	11.9	12
Jim Creek	14.9	15
Johnson Creek	13.9	14
Joseph Creek	8.5	9
Kalama River	45.2	45
Kettle River	33.8	56
Klickitat River	95.1	231
Lacamas Creek (Cowlitz River tributary)	22.2	22
Lacamas Creek (Washougal River tributary)	16.7	17
Lake River	13.9	41
Le Clerc Creek	1.3	17
Le Clerc Creek - East Branch	15.4	15
Lewis River	90.5	254
Lewis River - East Fork	43.3	43
Lightning Creek	12.5	13
Lincoln Creek	13.3	13
Little Beaver Creek	14.5	15
Little Klickitat River	26.5	43
Little Naches River	14.2	32
Little North River	16.6	17
Little Pend Oreille River	35.3	35
Little Quilcene River	13.3	13
Little Rattlesnake Creek	13.4	13
Little Spokane River	52.3	123
Little Wenatchee River	24.7	25
Little White Salmon River	21.3	21
Lmuma Creek	22.6	23
Logy Creek	18.5	19
Lost Creek	23.3	23
Lost River	21.8	33
Loup Loup Creek	20	20
Lower Crab Creek	48.6	350
Lower Salmon Creek	14.5	15
Mad River	27.2	27
Manastash Creek	8.7	30
Manastash Creek - South Fork	21	21
Mashel River	23.4	23
Matheny Creek	20.9	21
McDonald Creek	15.5	16
Meadow Creek	16.7	17
Menatchee Creek	11.8	12
Methow River	91.7	316
Mill Creek (Colville River tributary)	18.7	19
Mill Creek (Little Klickitat River tributary)	16.4	16
Mill Creek (Walla Walla River tributary)	36.6	37
Mineral Creek	15.7	16
Mission Creek	18.8	19
Moclips River	12.2	27
Moclips River - North Fork	15.1	15
Mox Chehalis Creek	17.2	17
Muck Creek	21.9	22
Muddy River	18.4	47
Mule Dry Creek	27.6	28
Naches River	45.6	302
Naneum Creek	34.5	60
Napeequa River	17.9	18
Naselle River	29.8	30
Nason Creek	27.2	27
Nespelem River	25.5	26
Newaukum	11.9	63
Newaukum Creek	15.3	15
Newaukum - North Fork	20.8	21
Newaukum - South Fork	30.3	30
Nile Creek	13.9	14
Ninemile Creek	23.4	23
Nisqually River	77.2	152
Nooksack River	39.5	174
Nooksack River - Middle Fork	19.8	20
Nooksack River - North Fork	41.9	58
Nooksack River - South Fork	41.7	42
North Nemah River	13.7	14
North River	60.4	92
Ohanapecosh River	16.1	16
Okanogan River	83	308
Olequa Creek	18.8	34
Omak Creek	25.8	26
Palouse River	123	503
Palouse River - South Fork	46	46
Park Creek	19.9	41
Pataha Creek	55.6	56
Penawawa Creek	18.1	18
Pend Oreille River	71.1	171
Peshastin Creek	18.5	34
Pilchuck Creek	23.7	24
Pilchuck River	41.3	41
Pine Creek (Columbia River tributary)	30.5	31
Pine Creek (Lewis River tributary)	11.4	11
Pine Creek (Rock Creek (Palouse River tributary))	54	54
Pine Creek (Walla Walla River tributary)	4.8	5
Priest River - Lower West Branch	5.9	6
Puyallup River	46.9	320
Pysht River	17.2	17
Queets River	55	160
Quillayute River	5.9	223
Quinault River	70.5	104
Quinault River - North Fork	18.3	18
Raft River	10.5	28
Raft River - North Fork	17.3	17
Raging River	16.1	16
Railroad Creek	20.6	21
Rapid River	13.2	13
Rattlesnake Creek	25.6	39
Rebel Flat Creek	31.5	32
Reecer Creek	17	17
Rock Creek (Chehalis River tributary)	13	13
Rock Creek (Columbia River tributary)	28.1	28
Rock Creek (Columbia River tributary)	16.1	16
Rock Creek (Crab Creek tributary)	24.7	25
Rock Creek (Hangman Creek tributary)	30.8	31
Rock Creek (Palouse River tributary)	56.2	161
Rock Island Creek	20.2	20
Salmon Creek (Cowlitz River tributary)	32.1	47
Salmon Creek (Lake River tributary)	27.4	27
Salmon Creek - North Fork (Okanogan River tributary)	14.8	15
Salmon Creek (Okanogan River tributary)	17	32
Salmon River	14.8	15
Samish River	30.6	31
Sams River	16.7	17
Sanpoil River	72.5	169
Sanpoil River - West Fork	24.8	74
Satsop River	5.8	152
Satsop River - East Fork	15.1	81
Satsop River - Middle Fork	34.7	35
Satsop River - West Fork	44.4	65
Satus Creek	55.1	127
Sauk River	39.1	154
Sauk River - North Fork	18.3	18
Sauk River - South Fork	13.6	14
Scatter Creek	22.9	23
Sheep Creek	13.1	13
Sherman Creek	22	34
Sherman Creek - South Fork	11.8	12
Simcoe Creek	18.2	18
Similkameen River	27.5	79
Sinking Creek	20.8	21
Sinlahekin Creek	31.6	51
Siouxon Creek	19.6	20
Sitkum River	14.5	15
Sixprong Creek	19.8	20
Skagit River	124.2	447
Skokomish River	7.9	73
Skokomish River - North Fork	34.9	35
Skokomish River - South Fork	30.3	30
Skookumchuck River	42.6	43
Skykomish River	29.1	168
Skykomish River - North Fork	29.1	29
Skykomish River - South Fork	20	47
Smith Creek	31.2	31
Snake River	175.6	1,069
Snohomish River	20.4	453
Snoqualmie River	42.7	223
Snoqualmie River - Middle Fork	39.6	50
Snoqualmie River - North Fork	27.2	27
Snoqualmie River - South Fork	30.8	31
Sol Duc River	67.9	68
South Deadman Creek	17.8	18
South Prairie Creek	17.8	18
Spokane River	99.6	377
Spring Creek	12.8	13
Squilchuck Creek	11.8	12
Stehekin River	25	37
Stillaguaimish River	23.1	215
Stillaguaimish River - North Fork	50.1	89
Stillaguaimish River - South Fork	53	80
Stillwater Creek	15.4	15
Stranger Creek	12.8	13
Suiattle River	47.7	59
Sullivan Creek	25.4	25
Sultan River	29.8	30
Swakane Creek	11.7	12
Swale Creek	33.3	33
Swauk Creek	24.9	25
Tacoma Creek	25.3	25
Tahuya River	21.2	21
Taneum Creek	13.5	26
Taneum Creek - North Fork	12.6	13
Tanwax Creek	14.2	14
Taylor River	10.6	11
Teanaway River	12.3	64
Teanaway River - Middle Fork	16.8	17
Teanaway River - North Fork	19.4	19
Teanaway River - West Fork	15.7	16
Tenmile Creek (Nooksack River tributary)	14.8	15
Tenmile Creek (Snake River tributary)	18	18
Tieton River	21.8	60
Tieton River - North Fork	15.3	15
Tieton River - South Fork	22.8	23
Tilton River	30.8	31
Toats Coulee Creek	5.2	20
Toats Coulee Creek - South Fork	14.4	14
Tokul Creek	13.7	14
Tolt River	8.4	43
Tolt River - North Fork	17.3	17
Tolt River - South Fork	16.9	17
Toppenish Creek	76.7	95
Touchet River	65.1	130
Touchet River - North Fork	19.6	20
Touchet River - South Fork	16.2	16
Toutle River	16.5	123
Toutle River - North Fork	37.1	74
Toutle River - South Fork	31.8	32
Trout Creek	14	14
Trout Lake Creek	21.9	22
Tshletshy Creek	12.6	13
Tucannon River	62.3	118
Tunk Creek	16.3	16
Twentymile Creek	12.8	13
Twisp River	34	47
Union Flat Creek	67.2	67
Voight Creek	20.2	20
Waddell Creek	12.4	12
Wallace River	16.3	16
Walla Walla River	44.8	252
Ward Creek	10.9	24
Washougal River	33.5	50
Wenas Creek	23	36
Wenas Creek - North Fork	13.1	13
Wenatchee River	54.4	307
West Foster Creek	16.4	16
Whetstone Creek	29.3	29
White Chuck River	24.6	25
White Creek	20.6	21
White River (Puyallup River tributary)	71	202
White River (Wenatchee River tributary)	30.7	49
White River - West Fork (Puyallup River tributary)	20.2	20
White Salmon River	44.7	67
Willapa River	48	96
Willapa River - South Fork	23.5	24
Willow Creek	22.5	23
Wilmont Creek	22.9	23
Wilson Creek (Crab Creek tributary)	37.8	59
Wilson Creek (Ward Creek tributary)	13.3	13
Wilson Creek (Yakima River tributary)	18.7	122
Wind River	33.9	34
Winson Creek	15.6	16
Wishkah	40	58
Wishkah - East Fork	17.5	18
Wolf Creek	16.9	17
Woods Creek	16.9	17
Wynoochee River	67	67
Yakima River	217.7	1,208
Yellowjacket Creek	16.8	17

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