List of rivers in Missouri (U.S. state).
By drainage basin
editThis list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Mississippi River
editArkansas River
editWhite River
edit- Mississippi River
Mississippi River between the White and Missouri rivers
edit- Mississippi River
Missouri River south of the Kansas River
edit- Mississippi River
- Missouri River
- Loutre River
- Quick Creek
- Gasconade River
- Auxvasse Creek
- Middle River
- Osage River
- Moreau River
- Lamine River
- Blackwater River 55 miles (89 km)
- Little Chariton River
- East Fork Little Chariton River 100 miles (160 km)
- Middle Fork Little Chariton River 63 miles (101 km)
- Chariton River
- Grand River
- Crooked River
- Fishing River
- Little Blue River
- Blue River
- Missouri River
Missouri River north of the Kansas River
editMississippi River north of the Missouri River
editAlphabetically
edit- Arapahoe Creek
- Baker Creek
- Bennetts River
- Benton Creek
- Bessen Hollow
- Betsy Branch
- Big Piney River
- Big River (142 miles (229 km))
- Big Sugar Creek
- Billys Branch
- Black Jack Creek
- Black River (300 miles (480 km))
- Blackwater River (55 miles (89 km))
- Blair Branch
- Blairs Creek
- Blue River
- Bobs Creek
- Bogard Creek
- Bollinger Creek
- Boone Creek
- Bourbeuse River (147 miles (237 km))
- Brazil Creek
- Brush Creek (Blue River tributary)
- Brush Creek (Bourbeuse River tributary)
- Buffalo Creek
- Burr Oak Creek
- Cache River (213 miles (343 km))
- Capps Creek
- Carter Creek (Current River tributary)
- Carter Creek (Meramec River tributary)
- Castor River
- Cave Spring Branch
- Cedar Creek (Des Moines River tributary)
- Cedar Creek (Missouri River tributary)
- Cedar Creek (Sac River tributary)
- Chariton River (280 miles (450 km))
- Cherry Valley Creek
- Clear Creek
- Coldwater Creek (Missouri river tributary)
- Coldwater Creek (South Grand River tributary)
- Coldwater Creek (Saline Creek tributary)
- Courtois Creek
- Crane Creek
- Crockett Creek
- Crooked Creek
- Crooked River (60 miles (97 km))
- Cuivre River
- Current River (225 miles (362 km))
- Des Moines River 525 miles (845 km)
- Dugan Branch
- Eleven Point River
- Elk River 80 miles (130 km)
- Elkhorn Creek
- Fabius River 230 miles (370 km)
- Fishing River
- Florida Creek
- Fox River
- Fretwell Branch
- Gal Branch
- Gasconade River 265 miles (426 km)
- Grand River 226 miles (364 km)
- Grandglaize Creek
- Green River
- Greens Creek
- Hamilton Creek
- Harman Creek
- Hickory Creek
- Highly Creek
- Hilbert Branch
- Hobo Branch
- Holmes Creek
- Honey Creek (Fox River tributary)
- Honey Creek (Limestone Creek tributary)
- Honey Creek (Moreau River tributary)
- Huff Creek
- Huzzah Creek
- Indian Creek
- Jacks Fork
- James River
- James Branch
- Jones Branch (Crooked Creek tributary)
- Jones Branch (One Hundred and Two River tributary)
- Kallambah Branch
- Kelley Branch
- Kelly Branch
- Kings River
- Lamine River 70 miles (110 km)
- Lick Creek
- Lincoln Creek
- Little Black River
- Little Blue River
- Little Bourbeuse River
- Little Chariton River
- Little Fabius River
- Little Fox River
- Little Maries River
- Little Meramec River
- Little Niangua River 40 miles (64 km)
- Little Osage River
- Little Platte River
- Little Pomme de Terre River
- Little River (Iowa–Missouri), tributary of Weldon River
- Little River (St. Francis River tributary)
- Little Sac River
- Little St. Francis River
- Little Sugar Creek
- Little Wyaconda River
- Locust Creek
- Lost Creek (Courtois Creek tributary)
- Lost Creek (Cuivre River tributary)
- Lost Creek (Grand River tributary)
- Loutre River
- Marais des Cygnes River 140 miles (230 km)
- Maries River
- Marmaton River
- Martigney Creek
- Meramec River
- Middle River
- Mill Creek
- Mill Rock Creek
- Missouri River
- Mississippi River
- Moreau River
- Mozingo Creek
- Muddy Creek
- Niangua River
- Nishnabotna River
- Nodaway River
- Norris Creek
- North Dry Sac River
- North Fork River
- North River
- One Hundred and Two River
- Old River
- Osage River
- Peach Creek
- Platte River
- Pomme de Terre River 113 miles (182 km)
- Prairie Creek
- Pryors Branch
- Quick Creek
- River des Peres
- Roaring River
- Rock Branch
- Rock Creek
- Roubidoux Creek
- Sac River 107 miles (172 km)
- St. Francis River 470 miles (760 km)
- Saling Branch
- Salt River
- Shoal Creek
- Sink Creek
- Skinner Creek
- South Grand River
- South River
- Spring River (Arkansas), of Missouri and Arkansas 57 miles (92 km)
- Spring River (Missouri), of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma
- Squaw Creek
- Sweet Oak Branch
- Taff Branch
- Tarkio River
- Thompson River
- Troublesome Creek
- Weldon River
- White Cloud Creek
- White River 722 miles (1,162 km)
- Whites Creek
- Whittenburg Creek
- Whitewater River
- Wilsons Creek
- Wolf Branch
- Wyaconda River
See also
edit
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Notes
edit- ^ a b c d The majority of the Castor and Whitewater rivers have been diverted to drain directly to the Mississippi via the Headwater Diversion Channel, but the lower portions of both rivers still drain to the Little River."Headwater Diversion Basin Watershed: Executive Summary". Archived from the original on June 12, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2007.
References
edit- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Missouri (1974)