This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Washington.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin. Respective tributaries are indented under each larger stream's name and are ordered downstream to upstream.
Fraser River (British Columbia)
- Sumas River
- Saar Creek
- Chilliwack River
- Silesia Creek
- Depot Creek
- Little Chilliwack River
Strait of Georgia, Bellingham Bay, Samish Bay
- Dakota Creek
- California Creek
- Lummi River
- Nooksack River
- Tenmile Creek
- Anderson Creek
- South Fork Nooksack River
- Skookum Creek
- Middle Fork Nooksack River
- North Fork Nooksack River
- Canyon Creek
- Glacier Creek
- Dead Horse Creek
- Wells Creek
- Ruth Creek
- Whatcom Creek
- Padden Creek
- Samish River
Puget Sound
Whidbey Basin
- Skagit River
- Finney Creek
- Grandy Creek
- Baker River
- Thunder Creek
- Rocky Creek
- Swift Creek
- Shannon Creek
- Blum Creek
- Sulphide Creek
- Crystal Creek
- Bald Eagle Creek
- Jackman Creek
- Sauk River
- Suiattle River
- Big Creek
- Buck Creek
- Lime Creek
- Downey Creek
- Sulphur Creek
- Milk Creek
- Dusty Creek
- Chocolate Creek
- Dan Creek
- Clear Creek
- Helena Creek
- White Chuck River
- Pugh Creek
- Camp Creek
- South Fork Sauk River
- Elliott Creek
- North Fork Sauk River
- Lost Creek
- Sloan Creek
- Cadet Creek
- Suiattle River
- Illabot Creek
- Cascade River
- Jordan Creek
- Marble Creek
- Kindy Creek
- North Fork Cascade River
- South Fork Cascade River
- Middle Fork Cascade River
- Diobsud Creek
- Bacon Creek
- Goodell Creek
- Newhalem Creek
- Stetattle Creek
- Thunder Creek
- Colonial Creek
- Ruby Creek
- Canyon Creek
- Slate Creek
- Granite Creek
- Canyon Creek
- Big Beaver Creek
- Devils Creek
- Three Fools Creek
- Little Beaver Creek
- Tulalip Creek
- Stillaguamish River
- Pilchuck Creek
- North Fork Stillaguamish
- Deer Creek
- Boulder River
- Squire Creek
- South Fork Stillaguamish
- Jim Creek
- Canyon Creek
- Snohomish River
- Quilceda Creek
- Pilchuck River
- Little Pilchuck Creek
- French Creek
- Skykomish River
- Woods Creek
- West Fork Woods Creek
- Youngs Creek
- Sultan River
- Chaplain Creek
- South Fork Sultan River
- Wallace River
- Olney Creek
- North Fork Skykomish River
- Salmon Creek
- Silver Creek
- Troublesome Creek
- West Cady Creek
- Goblin Creek
- Quartz Creek
- Pass Creek
- South Fork Skykomish River
- Barclay Creek
- Index Creek
- Money Creek
- Miller River
- West Fork Miller River
- East Fork Miller River
- Camp Robber Creek
- Maloney Creek
- Beckler River
- Rapid River
- Meadow Creek
- North Fork Rapid River
- Fourth of July Creek
- Evergreen Creek
- Rapid River
- Foss River
- West Fork Foss River
- East Fork Foss River
- Tye River
- Martin Creek
- Deception Creek
- Surprise Creek
- Scenic Creek
- Tunnel Creek
- Woods Creek
- Snoqualmie River
- Cherry Creek
- Tolt River
- North Fork Tolt River
- South Fork Tolt River
- Griffin Creek
- Patterson Creek
- Raging River
- Tokul Creek
- South Fork Snoqualmie River
- Boxley Creek
- Hansen Creek
- North Fork Snoqualmie River
- Tate Creek
- Sunday Creek
- Lennox Creek
- Middle Fork Snoqualmie River
- Granite Creek
- Pratt River
- Rainy Creek
- Taylor River
- Quartz Creek
- Dingford Creek
- Burnboot Creek
Central Basin
- Shell Creek
- Shelleberger Creek
- Deer Creek
- Boeing Creek
- Pipers Creek
- Lake Washington Ship Canal/Lake Washington
- Taylor Creek
- Ravenna Creek
- Thornton Creek
- McAleer Creek
- Lyon Creek
- Sammamish River
- Swamp Creek
- Scriber Creek
- North Creek
- Penny Creek
- Mill Creek
- Sitka Creek
- Bear Creek
- Cottage Lake Creek
- Lake Sammamish
- Issaquah Creek
- East Fork Issaquah Creek
- Issaquah Creek
- Swamp Creek
- Juanita Creek
- Forbes Creek
- Yarrow Creek
- Kelsey Creek
- Coal Creek
- May Creek
- Cedar River
- Taylor Creek
- Rex River
- Duwamish River
- Longfellow Creek
- Black River (historical)
- Cedar River (historical)
- Green River
- White River (historical)
- Big Soos Creek
- Newaukum Creek
- North Fork Green River
- Smay Creek
- Sunday Creek
- Fauntleroy Creek
- Des Moines Creek
- Massey Creek
- McSorley Creek
- Redondo Creek
- Lakota Creek
- Joes Creek
- Hylebos Creek
- Wapato Creek
- Puyallup River
- Swan Creek
- Clear Creek
- Clarks Creek
- Stuck River
- White River
- Clearwater River
- Greenwater River
- West Fork White River
- Huckleberry Creek
- White River
- Carbon River
- Voight Creek
- South Prairie Creek
- Wilkeson Creek
- Kapowsin Creek
- Mowich River
- Puget Creek
South Basin
- Chambers Creek
- Clover Creek
- Sequalitchew Creek
- Nisqually River
- Muck Creek
- Yelm Creek
- Tanwax Creek
- Ohop Creek
- Mashel River
- Little Mashel River
- Busy Wild Creek
- Little Nisqually River
- Mineral Creek
- Big Creek
- Catt Creek
- Kautz Creek
- Paradise River
- Van Trump Creek
- Woodland Creek
- Indian Creek
- Deschutes River
- Kennedy Creek
- Mill Creek
- Goldsborough Creek
- Sherwood Creek
Hood Canal, Admiralty Inlet
- Union River
- Mission Creek
- Tahuya River
- Skokomish River
- North Fork Skokomish River (Lake Cushman)
- South Fork Skokomish River
- Vance Creek
- Dewatto River
- Hamma Hamma River
- Duckabush River
- Dosewallips River
- Big Quilcene River
- Tunnel Creek
- Little Quilcene River
- Chimacum Creek
Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Snow Creek
- Dungeness River
- Gray Wolf River
- Cameron Creek
- Gray Wolf River
- McDonald Creek
- Morse Creek
- Ennis Creek
- Elwha River
- Indian Creek
- Little River
- Lillian River
- Lost River
- Goldie River
- Hayes River
- Lyre River
- East Twin River
- West Twin River
- Deep Creek
- Pysht River
- Clallam River
- Hoko River
- Sekiu River
- Sail River
Pacific Coast
- Waatch River
- Sooes River
- Ozette River
- Big River
- Quillayute River
- Dickey River
- Sol Duc River
- Bear Creek
- North Fork Sol Duc River
- Bogachiel River
- Calawah River
- North Fork Calawah River
- Sitkum River
- Calawah River
- Goodman Creek
- Hoh River
- South Fork Hoh River
- Mount Tom Creek
- Kalaloch Creek
- Queets River
- Clearwater River
- Snahapish River
- Solleks River
- Salmon River
- Matheny Creek
- Sams River
- Thletshy Creek
- Clearwater River
- Raft River
- Quinault River
- Cook Creek
- Ten O'Clock Creek
- North Fork Quinault Creek
- Rustler Creek
- Moclips River
- Joe Creek
- Copalis River
Grays Harbor
- Humptulips River
- Big Creek
- Stevens Creek
- West Fork Humptulips River
- East Fork Humptulips River
- Hoquiam River
- Chehalis River
- Wishkah River
- Wynoochee River
- Satsop River
- East Fork Satsop River
- Decker Creek
- Bingham Creek
- Middle Fork Satsop River
- West Fork Satsop River
- Canyon River
- East Fork Satsop River
- Cloquallum Creek
- Delezene Creek
- Mox Chehalis Creek
- Porter Creek
- Rock Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Garrard Creek
- Black River
- Beaver Creek
- Waddell Creel
- Scatter Creek
- Lincoln Creek (entirely in Lewis County)
- Skookumchuck River
- Hanaford Creek
- Salzer Creek
- Newaukum River
- North Fork Newaukum River
- Middle Fork Newaukum River
- South Fork Newaukum River
- North Fork Newaukum River
- Stearns Creek
- Bunker Creek
- South Fork Chehalis River
- Lake Creek
- Stillman Creek
- Elk Creek
- Crim Creek
- Newskah Creek
- Johns River
- Elk River
Willapa Bay
- Cedar River
- North River
- Lower Salmon Creek
- Little North River
- Vesta Creek
- Fall River
- Smith Creek
- Elkhorn Creek
- Willapa River
- South Fork Willapa River
- Wilson Creek
- Mill Creek
- Fork Creek
- Bone River
- Niawiakum River
- Palix River
- Canon River
- North Nemah River
- Williams Creek
- South Nemah River
- Middle Nemah River
- Naselle River
- South Naselle River
- Salmon Creek
- Bear River
Columbia River
- Columbia River
Lower Columbia Basin
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- Wallacut River
- Chinook River
- Deep River
- Grays River
- Skamokawa Creek
- Elochoman River
- Abernethy Creek
- Germany Creek
- Coal Creek
- Cowlitz River
- Coweeman River
- Ostrander Creek
- Arkansas Creek
- Toutle River
- South Fork Toutle River
- North Fork Toutle River
- Green River
- Hoffstadt Creek
- Olequah Creek
- Lacamas Creek
- Salmon Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Winstron Creek
- Tilton River
- Cispus River
- Quartz Creek
- Iron Creek
- Yellowjacket Creek
- North Fork Cispus River
- East Canyon Creek
- Adams Creek
- Muddy Fork
- Walupt Creek (Walupt Creek Falls)
- Kiona Creek
- Silver Creek
- Johnson Creek
- Skate Creek
- Butter Creek
- Lake Creek (Packwood Lake)
- Muddy Fork Cowlitz River
- Ohanapecosh River
- Summit Creek
- Clear Fork Cowlitz River
- Kalama River
- Lewis River
- East Fork Lewis River
- Cedar Creek
- Canyon Creek
- Siouxou Creek
- Pine Creek
- Muddy River
- Clear Creek
- Clearwater Creek
- Clear Creek
- Quartz Creek
- Gee Creek
- Lake River
- Salmon Creek
- Woodin Creek / Weaver Creak
- Burnt Bridge Creek
- Salmon Creek
- Washougal River
- Lacamas Creek
- Little Washougal River
- West Fork Washougal River
- Rock Creek
- Wind River
- Panther Creek
- Trout Creek
- Falls Creek
- Little White Salmon River
- White Salmon River
- Rattlesnake Creek
- Trout Lake Creek
- Cascade Creek
- Klickitat River
- Swale Creek
- Little Klickitat River
- Bowman Creek
- Mill Creek
- Butler Creek
- Summit Creek
- White Creek
- Brush Creek
- Outlet Creek
- Trout Creek
- Big Muddy Creek
- Surveyors Creek
- West Fork
- Diamond Fork
- Rock Creek
Walla Walla and Snake River Basins
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- Walla Walla River
- Touchet River
- Patit Creek
- South Fork Touchet River
- North Fork Touchet River
- Wolf Fork
- Robinson Fork
- Wolf Fork
- Mud Creek
- Dry Creek
- Mill Creek
- Cottonwood Creek
- Touchet River
- Snake River
- Palouse River
- Cow Creek
- Union Flat Creek
- Rock Creek
- Imbler Creek
- Cottonwood Creek
- Kamiache Creek
- Pleasant Valley Creek
- Pine Creek
- Thorn Creek
- Rebel Flat Creek
- South Fork Palouse River
- Tucannon River
- Pataha Creek
- Tumalum Creek
- Cummings Creek
- Alkali Flat Creek
- Meadow Creek
- Deadman Creek
- Penawawa Creek
- Alpowa Creek
- Asotin Creek
- George Creek
- Charley Creek
- South Fork Asotin Creek
- Lick Creek
- Grande Ronde River
- Joseph Creek
- Menatchee Creek
- Crooked Creek
- Wenaha River (North Fork)
- Palouse River
- Walla Walla River
Central Columbian Basin
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- Yakima River
- Amon Creek
- Logy Creek
- Toppenish Creek
- Simcoe Creek
- Ahtanum Creek
- Wide Hollow Creek
- Naches River
- Cowiche Creek
- Tieton River
- Rimrock Lake
- South Fork Tieton River
- North Fork Tieton River
- Rimrock Lake
- Rattle Snake Creek
- Little Rattle Snake Creek
- Nile Creek
- Bumping River
- American River
- Deep Creek
- Crow Creek
- Little Naches River
- Wenas Creek
- Lmuma Creek
- Umtanum Creek
- Wilson Creek
- Cherry Creek
- Cooke Creek
- Caribou Creek
- Park Creek
- Naneum Creek
- Coleman Creek
- Cherry Creek
- Reever Creek
- Manastash Creek
- Robinson Creek
- Dry Creek
- Taneum Creek
- Swauk Creek
- First Creek
- Teanaway River
- Cle Elum River
- Cooper River
- Waptus River
- Little Creek
- Big Creek
- Kachess River
- Cabin Creek
- Keechelus Lake
- Hanson Creek
- Lower Crab Creek
- Potholes Reservoir / Moses Lake
- Rocky Ford Creek (Grand Coulee)
- Upper Crab Creek
- Potholes Reservoir / Moses Lake
- Johnson Creek
- Whiskey Dick Creek
- Tekison Creek
- Lynch Coulee
- Tarpiscan Creek
- Douglas Creek
- Colockum Creek
- Rock Island Creek
- Beaver Creek
- Squilchuck Creek
- Wenatchee River
- Mission Creek
- Peshastin Creek
- Ingalls Creek
- Chumstick Creek
- Eagle Creek
- Icicle Creek
- Snow Creek (Enchantment Lakes)
- Eightmile Creek
- Mountaineer Creek
- Jack Creek
- French Creek
- Chiwaukum Creek
- Chiwawa River
- Big Meadow Creek
- Phelps Creek
- Fish Lake Run
- Nason Creek
- Whitepine Creek
- Lake Wenatchee
- Little Wenatchee River
- White River
- Napeequa River
- Indian Creek
- Swakane Creek
- Entiat River
- Mad River
- Mud Creek
- North Fork Entiat
- Yakima River
Lake Chelan to Coulee Dam
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- Chelan River (Lake Chelan)
- Twentyfive Mile Creek
- Prince Creek
- Railroad Creek
- Stehekin River
- Company Creek
- Agnes Creek
- Bridge Creek
- Flat Creek
- Methow River
- Gold Creek
- South Fork Gold Creek
- Foggy Dew Creek
- Libby Creek
- Beaver Creek
- Frazer Creek
- Twisp River
- Little Bridge Creek
- Buttermilk Creek
- War Creek
- Bear Creek
- Chewuch River
- Cub Creek
- Boulder Creek
- Eightmile Creek
- Falls Creek
- Twenty Miles creek
- Andrews Creek
- Wolf Creek
- Goat Creek
- Early Winters Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Lost River
- Eureka Creek
- Robinson Creek
- Gold Creek
- Swamp Creek
- Okanogan River
- Loup Loup Creek
- Salmon Creek (Conconully Reservoir)
- West Fork Salmon
- North Fork Salmon
- Omak Creek
- No Name Creek (Omak Lake)
- Kartar Creek
- No Name Creek (Omak Lake)
- Wanacut Creek
- Johnson Creek
- Tunk Creek
- Bonaparte Creek
- Siwash Creek
- Antoine Creek
- Similkameen River
- Palmer Creek (Palmer Lake)
- Sinlahekin Creek
- Chopaka Creek (Chopaka Lake)
- Toats Coulee Creek
- Cecil Creek
- Sinlahekin Creek
- Ashnola River
- Pasayten River
- East Fork Pasayten
- West Fork Pasayten
- Middle Fork Pasayten
- Chuchuwanteen Creek
- Castle Creek
- Palmer Creek (Palmer Lake)
- Tomasket Creek
- Osoyoos Lake
- Foster Creek
- Coyote Creek
- Nespelem River
- Little Nespelem River
- North Star Creek
- Stepstone Creek
- Chelan River (Lake Chelan)
Upper Columbia Basin
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- Sanpoil River
- Twentythree Mile Creek
- Seventeenmile Creek
- West Fork Sanpoil River
- Gold Creek
- Lost Creek
- Cape Labelle Creek
- Granite Creek
- O'Brien Creek
- Hawk Creek
- Spokane River
- Spring Creek
- Chamokane Creek
- Little Spokane River
- Deadman Creek
- Dragoon Creek
- Deer Creek
- West Branch Little Spokane (Eloika Lake)
- Deep Creek
- Latah Creek (Hangman Creek)
- California Creek
- Rock Creek
- Little Hangman Creek
- Ninemile Creek
- Wilmont Creek
- Stranger Creek
- Hall Creek
- Lynx Creek
- Barnaby Creek
- Sherman Creek
- Colville River
- Mill Creek
- Haller Creek
- Little Pend Oreille River
- Bear Creek
- Stranger Creek
- Stensgar Creek
- Chewelah Creek
- Cottonwood Creek
- Huckleberry Creek
- Grouse Creek
- Deer Creek
- Sheep Creek
- Kettle River
- Deadman Creek
- Boulder Creek
- East Deer Creek
- West Deer Creek
- Lon Alec Creek
- Curlew Creek (Curlew Lake)
- Lambert Creek
- Trout Creek
- Tonata Creek
- Toroda Creek
- Myers Creek
- Mary Ann Creek
- Onion Creek
- Big Sheep Creek
- Deep Creek
- Pend Oreille River (mouth just across Canadaâ€"United States border)
- Slate Creek
- Sullivan Creek
- Harvey Creek (Sullivan Lake)
- Ruby Creek
- Le Clerc Creek
- Tacoma Creek
- Calispell Creek
- Small Creek
- Winchester Creek
- Skookum Creek
- Priest River (itself in Idaho, but Western tributaries in Washington)
- Lower West Branch Priest River
- Upper West Branch Priest River
- Kalispell Creek
- Granite Creek
- Sanpoil River
Alphabetically
- American River
- Amon Creek
- Ashnola River
- Baker River
- Bear River
- Beckler River
- Big Quilcene River
- Black River (historical)
- Black River
- Boeing Creek
- Bogachiel River
- Bone River
- Bumping River
- Calawah River
- Canyon River
- Carbon River
- Cedar River (Lake Washington)
- Cedar River (Willapa Bay)
- Chaplain Creek
- Chehalis River
- Chelan River
- Chewuch River
- Chilliwack River
- Chinook River
- Chiwaukum Creek
- Chiwawa River
- Chumstick Creek
- Cispus River
- Clallam River
- Cle Elum River
- Clear Creek
- Clearwater River (Queets River)
- Clearwater River (White River)
- Clover Creek
- Coal Creek
- Columbia River
- Colville River
- Cowlitz River
- Crab Creek
- Deep River
- Depot Creek
- Deschutes River
- Dewatto River
- Dickey River
- Dosewallips River
- Duckabush River
- Dungeness River
- Duwamish River
- East Fork Miller River
- East Twin River
- Elk River
- Elwha River
- Entiat River
- Fauntleroy Creek
- Foss River
- Gray Wolf River
- Grays River
- Green River (Duwamish River tributary)
- Green River (Toutle River tributary)
- Greenwater River
- Hamma Hamma River
- Hoh River
- Hoko River
- Humptulips River
- Icicle Creek
- Indian Creek (Elwha River)
- Issaquah Creek
- Juanita Creek
- Kachess River
- Kelsey Creek
- Kettle River
- Klickitat River
- Lacamas Creek
- Lewis River
- Little Chilliwack River
- Little Pend Oreille River
- Little Quilcene River
- Little River
- Little Spokane River
- Little Wenatchee River
- Little White Salmon River
- Lyon Creek
- Mad River
- Mashel River
- McAleer Creek
- Methow River
- Middle Fork Snoqualmie River
- Miller River
- Muddy River
- Naches River
- Napeequa River
- Naselle River
- Nason Creek
- Newaukum River
- Niawiakum River
- Nisqually River
- Nooksack River
- North Creek
- North Fork Skykomish River
- North Fork Snoqualmie River
- North River
- Okanogan River
- Palouse River
- Paradise River
- Pend Oreille River
- Pilchuck River
- Pratt River
- Puyallup River
- Queets River
- Quillayute River
- Quinault River
- Raging River
- Rapid River
- Rex River
- Rock Creek (Latah Creek)
- Rock Creek (Palouse River)
- Sail River
- Samish River
- Sammamish River
- Satsop River
- Sauk River
- Silesia Creek
- Skagit River
- Skokomish River
- Skookumchuck River
- Skykomish River
- Sloan Creek
- Snahapish River
- Snake River
- Snohomish River
- Snoqualmie River
- Sol Duc River
- South Fork Skykomish River
- South Fork Snoqualmie River
- South Fork Sultan River
- Spokane River
- Stehekin River
- Stillaguamish River
- Stuck River
- Sultan River
- Swamp Creek
- Tahuya River
- Taylor Creek
- Teanaway River
- Thornton Creek
- Tieton River
- Tilton River
- Tolt River
- Touchet River
- Toutle River
- Tucannon River
- Twisp River
- Tye River
- Union River
- Van Trump Creek
- Walla Walla River
- Wallace River
- Washougal River
- Waatch River
- Wells Creek
- Wenatchee River
- West Fork Miller River
- West Twin River
- White River (Puyallup River tributary)
- White River (Wenatchee Lake tributary)
- White Salmon River
- Willapa River
- Wishkah River
- Wynoochee River
- Yakima River
See also
- List of rivers in the United States
References
- USGS Streamflow Data for Washington
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Washington (1974)
