Geography Tool Shed : West Virginia Rivers

United States Rivers

West Virginia

River count	229
River miles	7,059

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Name	Length (miles)	Watershed Length (miles)
Abram Creek	19.4	19
Anthony Creek	15.5	59
Anthony Creek - Middle Fork	15.2	15
Anthony Creek - North Fork	11.6	12
Back Creek (Potomac River tributary)	34.3	34
Beech Fork	28.7	29
Big Beaver Creek	17	17
Big Coal River	39.7	98
Big Harts Creek	13	13
Big Sandy Creek (Cheat River tributary)	18.7	33
Big Sandy Creek (Elk River tributary)	25.1	25
Big Sandy River	27.1	308
Big Ugly Creek	18.7	19
Bingamon Creek	15.1	15
Birch River	36.1	54
Black Fork	4.5	168
Blackwater River	34.3	34
Blue Creek	17.3	17
Bluestone River	65.3	82
Bonds Creek	18.7	19
Brush Creek	16.7	17
Brushy Fork	16	16
Buckeye Creek	14.4	14
Buckhannon River	45.4	109
Buckhannon River - Left Fork	17.2	17
Buckhannon River - Right Fork	16.8	29
Buckhannon River - Right Fork - Left Fork	12.2	12
Buffalo Creek (Elk River tributary)	25.7	26
Buffalo Creek (Guyandotte River tributary)	19.1	19
Buffalo Creek (Monongahela River tributary)	29.9	30
Buffalo Creek (Ohio River tributary)	18.5	19
Cabin Creek	21.9	22
Cacapon River	81	201
Cedar Creek	34.8	35
Cheat River	74.7	397
Cherry River	10.7	61
Cherry River - North Fork	17.8	18
Cherry River - South Fork	17	17
Clear Fork (Big Coal River tributary)	23.5	24
Clear Fork (Guyandotte River tributary)	29.6	54
Coal River	18.9	242
Cranberry River	24.9	25
Cross Creek	7.3	7
Davis Creek	15.5	16
Deckers Creek	24.6	25
Deer Creek	19.2	19
Dry Fork (Black Fork tributary)	39.3	129
Dry Fork (Tug Fork tributary)	36	36
Dunloup Creek	16	16
East River	24.1	24
Eighteenmile Creek	32.8	33
Elk Creek	31.8	48
Elk Fork	15.6	16
Elkhorn Creek	23.7	24
Elk River	175.6	442
Elk River - Back Fork	23.2	23
Enlow Fork	1	1
Falling Rock Creek	16.3	16
Fink Creek	20.7	21
Fish Creek	26.9	59
Fish Creek - Pennsylvania Fork	9.5	10
Fish Creek - West Virginia Fork	22.8	23
Fishing Creek	23.3	81
Fishing Creek - North Fork	16.4	16
Fishing Creek - South Fork	21	21
French Creek	17.3	17
Gauley River	106.2	416
Glade Creek	23.3	23
Glady Fork	31.9	32
Goose Creek	25.8	26
Grave Creek	20.9	34
Greenbrier River	154	387
Greenbrier River - East Fork	20.4	20
Greenbrier River - West Fork	19.3	19
Guyan Creek	15.5	16
Guyandotte River	168.7	527
Hackers Creek	25.7	26
Hans Creek	16.4	16
Harmon Creek	7.5	8
Henry Fork	24.5	25
Holly River	3.9	50
Holly River - Left Fork	23.6	24
Holly River - Right Fork	22.4	22
Hominy Creek	24.9	25
Horseshoe Run	16	16
Howard Creek	15.4	15
Huff Creek	20.7	21
Hughes River	14.2	188
Hughes River - North Fork	55.2	74
Hughes River - South Fork	55.2	74
Hurricane Creek	25	25
Indian Creek (Guyandotte River tributary)	20.2	20
Indian Creek (Hughes River - South Fork tributary)	19.1	19
Indian Creek (New River tributary)	33.6	50
Island Creek	18.7	19
Kanawha River	97.5	2,191
Knapp Creek	29.6	30
Laurel Creek (Cherry River tributary)	15.7	16
Laurel Creek (Elk River tributary)	21.2	21
Laurel Fork (Clear Fork (Guyandotte River tributary))	24.4	24
Laurel Fork (Dry Fork (Black Fork tributary))	37.8	38
Laurel Fork (Pigeon Creek tributary)	15.7	16
Laurel Fork (Potomac River - South Branch - North Fork tributary)	1.8	2
Leading Creek (Little Kanawha River tributary)	30.7	51
Leading Creek (Tygart Valley River tributary)	21.3	21
Lee Creek	2.4	36
Lee Creek - North Fork	21.3	21
Lee Creek - South Fork	12	12
Little Birch River	17.7	18
Little Cacapon River	25.1	25
Little Clear Creek	15.3	15
Little Coal River	27.6	125
Little Fishing Creek	20.6	21
Little Huff Creek	15.8	16
Little Kanawha River	172	757
Little Kanawha River - West Fork	46	87
Little Kanawha River - West Fork - Left Fork	16.7	17
Little Mill Creek	11.4	11
Little Sandy Creek (Big Sandy Creek (Cheat River tributary))	12.7	13
Little Sandy Creek (Big Sandy Creek tributary)	1.3	1
Little Sandy Creek (Elk River tributary)	18.4	18
Little Tenmile Creek	13.1	13
Little Wheeling Creek	10.4	22
Loop Creek	20.4	20
Lost River	31.1	31
Lunice Creek	7.3	31
Lunice Creek - North Fork	12.7	13
Lunice Creek - South Fork	11.1	11
Marrowbone Creek	15.2	15
Marsh Fork	35	35
McElroy Creek	20.2	20
McKim Creek	17.9	18
Meadow Branch	16.6	17
Meadow Creek	16.3	16
Meadow River	62	77
Meathouse Fork	19.9	20
Middle Fork	15.1	15
Middle Fork River	35.4	51
Middle Fork River - Right Fork	15.4	15
Middle Grave Creek	12.8	13
Middle Island Creek	75.8	148
Middle Wheeling Creek	11.2	11
Mill Creek (Ohio River tributary)	29.7	72
Mill Creek (Potomac River - South Branch tributary)	2.5	30
Mill Creek (Tygart Valley River tributary)	16.3	16
Monongahela River	37.9	1,175
Muddlety Creek	23.5	24
Muddy Creek (Cheat River tributary)	16	16
Muddy Creek (Greenbrier River tributary)	21.9	22
Mud River	82.8	108
Mud River - Trace Fork	25	25
New Creek	18.3	18
New River (Kanawha River tributary)	89.6	708
North Mill Creek	13.4	13
North River	52.5	71
Ohio River	276.1	6,028
Oldtown Creek	23.7	24
Opequon Creek	34.1	34
Paint Creek	42	42
Parchment Creek	15.1	15
Patterson Creek	51.2	51
Peters Creek	19.1	19
Pigeon Creek	32	48
Piney Creek	35.4	35
Pinnacle Creek	27.4	27
Pocatalico Creek	10.2	25
Pocatalico River	72.6	98
Pond Creek	17.3	17
Pond Fork	35.8	53
Pond Fork - West Fork	16.9	17
Potomac River	116	1,031
Potomac River - North Branch	103.4	219
Potomac River - South Branch	127.2	318
Potomac River - South Branch - North Fork	43.5	65
Potomac River - South Branch - South Fork	64.5	65
Red Creek	19.8	20
Reedy Creek	17.1	51
Reedy Creek - Left Fork	16.9	29
Reedy Creek - Middle Fork	12.4	12
Reedy Creek - Right Fork	4.1	4
Roaring Creek	15	15
Saltlick Creek	20.4	20
Sand Fork	20.9	21
Sandy Creek - Left Fork (Ohio River tributary)	16	16
Sandy Creek (Ohio River tributary)	12.3	40
Sandy Creek - Right Fork (Ohio River tributary)	11.8	12
Sandy Creek (Tygart Valley River tributary)	15.8	16
Second Creek	25.5	26
Seneca Creek	19.2	19
Shavers Fork	89.6	90
Shenandoah River	20.1	20
Simpson Creek	29	29
Sixteenmile Creek	17	17
Slab Fork	15.7	16
Sleepy Creek	36.1	63
Sleepy Creek - Middle Fork	10.7	11
South Mill Creek	14	14
Spring Creek (Greenbrier River tributary)	23.3	23
Spring Creek (Little Kanawha River tributary)	24.3	24
Spruce Fork	26.2	45
Spruce Laurel Fork	18.6	19
Steer Creek	6.3	57
Steer Creek - Left Fork	26.9	27
Steer Creek - Right Fork	23.4	23
Stony River	26.6	27
Straight Fork	0.4	0
Strange Creek	15.5	16
Tear Coat Creek	18.2	18
Tenmile Creek	26.8	40
Teter Creek	16.4	16
Thirteenmile Creek	30.6	31
Three Fork Creek	18.7	19
Tommy Creek	11.3	11
Trout Run	18.5	19
Tug Fork	158.5	281
Twelvepole Creek	32.5	166
Twelvepole Creek - East Fork	50.2	50
Twelvepole Creek - West Fork	54.9	55
Twentymile Creek	28.7	29
Tygart Creek	16.1	16
Tygart Valley River	135.4	399
Walker Creek	17.6	18
West Fork River	103.7	261
Wheeling Creek	28.1	51
Whiteday Creek	19.7	20
Williams River	33.2	33
Winding Gulf	15.6	16
Worthington Creek	17	17
Youghiogheny River	6.4	6

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