- List of rivers of West Virginia
This is a list of rivers in the
U.S. state ofWest Virginia .List of West Virginia rivers includes streams formally designated as
rivers . There are also smaller streams (i.e., branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in the state. Exclusive of major tributaries, there are about 46 named rivers inWest Virginia . Though relatively few in number, rivers have traditionally provided easy avenues of transportation through the rough terrain of the Mountain State, first by Native Americans and later byEurope an settlers. Even today, the larger rivers transport large volumes of commercial goods, while the smaller ones provide recreational opportunities such ascanoe ing, fishing, swimming, and white-water rafting.Alphabetically
*Back Creek
*Big Coal River
*Big Sandy Creek
*Big Sandy River
*Birch River
*Black Fork
*Blackwater River
*Bluestone River
*Buckhannon River
*Buffalo Creek
*Bull River
*Cacapon River
*Cheat River
*Cherry River
*Coal River
*Cranberry River
*Dillons Run
*Dry Fork, Cheat River tributary
*Dry Fork, Tug Fork tributary
*East River
*Elk Creek
*Elk River
*Elkhorn Creek
*Fourpole Creek
*Gauley River
*Glady Fork
*Greenbrier River
*Guyandotte River
*Hackers Creek
*Holly River
*Hughes River
*Kanawha River
*Knapps Creek
*Laurel Fork
*Little Birch River
*Little Blackwater River
*Little Bluestone River
*Little Cacapon River
*Little Coal River
*Little Kanawha River
*Little River (tributary of East Fork Greenbrier River)
*Little River (tributary of West Fork Greenbrier River)
*Lost River
*Lunice Creek
*Meadow Branch
*Meadow River
*Middle Fork River
*Middle Island Creek
*Mill Creek
*Monongahela River
*Mud River
*New Creek
*New River
*North Branch Potomac River
*North Fork Little Cacapon River
*North Fork South Branch Potomac River
*North River
*Ohio River
*Opequon Creek
*Pattersons Creek
*Pocatalico River
*Potomac River
*Sandy Creek
*Shavers Fork
*Shenandoah River
*Simpson Creek
*Sleepy Creek
*South Branch Potomac River
*South Fork Little Cacapon River
*South Fork South Branch Potomac River
*Stonecoal Creek
*Stony River
*Tenmile Creek
*Tug Fork
*Tuscarora Creek
*Twelvepole Creek
*Tygart Valley River
*West Fork River
*Wheeling Creek
*Williams River
*Worthington Creek
*Youghiogheny River By tributary
Ohio River *
Monongahela River
**Tygart Valley River
***Middle Fork River
***Buckhannon River
**West Fork River
***Stonecoal Creek
***Hackers Creek
***Elk Creek
***Simpson Creek
***Tenmile Creek
**Cheat River
***Shavers Fork
***Black Fork
****Dry Fork
*****Laurel Fork
*****Glady Fork
****Blackwater River
*****Little Blackwater River
***Big Sandy Creek
**Youghiogheny River
*Wheeling Creek
*Middle Island Creek
*Little Kanawha River
**Bull River
**Hughes River
*Sandy Creek
*Mill Creek
*Kanawha River
**New River
***East River
***Bluestone River
****Little Bluestone River
***Greenbrier River
****Knapps Creek
****Little River (tributary of East Fork)
****Little River (tributary of West Fork)
**Gauley River
***Williams River
***Cranberry River
***Cherry River
***Meadow River
**Elk River
***Holly River
***Birch River
****Little Birch River
**Coal River
***Big Coal River
***Little Coal River
**Pocatalico River
*Guyandotte River
**Mud River
*Twelvepole Creek
*Big Sandy River
**Tug Fork River
***Dry Fork
***Elkhorn Creek
***Fourpole CreekPotomac River *South Branch Potomac River
**Big Run
**Buffalo Creek
**Lunice Creek
**Mill Creek
**Mill Run
**North Fork South Branch Potomac River
***Mill Creek
***Seneca Creek
**South Fork South Branch Potomac River
***Kettle Creek
*North Branch Potomac River
**Abram Creek
**Dans Run
**Green Spring Run
**Limestone Run
**New Creek
**Patterson Creek
***Mill Creek
**Stony River
*Little Cacapon River
**North Fork Little Cacapon River
**South Fork Little Cacapon River
*Cacapon River
**Capon Springs Run
**Dillons Run
**Edwards Run
**Lost River
**Mill Branch
**North River
***Grassy Lick Run
***Tearcoat Creek
****Bearwallow Creek
**Trout Run
*Sir Johns Run
*Warm Spring Run
*Sleepy Creek
**Meadow Branch
*Cherry Run
*Back Creek
**Tilhance Creek
*Opequon Creek
**Middle Creek
**Mill Creek
**Tuscarora Creek
*Shenandoah River ee also
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List of rivers in the United States
*Teays River
*List of islands in West Virginia (with islands in rivers)External links
* [http://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/wv/nwis/rt Current stream flow conditions in West Virginia]
* [http://www.nps.gov/blue/ Bluestone National Scenic River]
* [http://www.cheat.org/ Friends of the Cheat]
* [http://www.nps.gov/neri/home.htm New River Gorge National River]
* [http://www.wvrivers.org/ West Virginia Rivers Coalition]
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