List of rivers of New York facts for kids

The Raquette River, in Colton, New York.

This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of New York.

By drainage basin

This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented by order of confluence with their main stem, from mouth to source.

Long Island Sound (northern side)

Long Island Sound is shown highlighted in pink between Connecticut (to the north) and Long Island (to the south)

• Housatonic River (CT)
  • Tenmile River
    • Swamp River
      • Mill River
    • Webatuck Creek
  • Green River
• Norwalk River (CT)
  • Silvermine River
• Rippowam River
  • Mill River
• Mianus River
• Byram River
  • Wampus River
• Mamaroneck River
  • Sheldrake River
• Hutchinson River

Long Island

Long Island Sound

• Nissequogue River
• Wading River

Block Island Sound

• Peconic River
  • Little River

Atlantic Ocean

• Carmans River 10 miles
• Connetquot River 6 miles
• Forge River 3.2 miles
• Swan River 2 miles
• Patchogue River 1 mile

• Carlls River
• Massapequa Creek
• Cedar Swamp Creek
• Mill River
• Aspatuck River
• Speonk River

New York Harbor

New York City waterways: 1. Hudson River, 2. East River, 3. Long Island Sound, 4. Newark Bay, 5. Upper New York Bay, 6. Lower New York Bay, 7. Jamaica Bay, 8. Atlantic Ocean

• Arthur Kill (tidal strait)
  • Fresh Kills
    • Richmond Creek
• Passaic River (NJ)
  • Saddle River
  • Pompton River (NJ)
    • Pequannock River (NJ)
      • Wanaque River
        • Ringwood River
    • Ramapo River
      • Mahwah River
• Hackensack River
  • Pascack Brook
• Kill Van Kull (tidal strait)
• East River (tidal strait)
  • Newtown Creek
  • Harlem River (tidal strait)
  • Bronx Kill (tidal strait)
  • Bronx River
  • Flushing River
  • Westchester Creek

Hudson River Basin

Hudson Drainage Basin

• Hudson River (Also known as the North River)
  • Saw Mill River
    • Rum Brook (Saw Mill River)
    • Mine Brook (Saw Mill River)
    • Nanny Hagen Brook
    • Tertia Brook
  • Wickers Creek
  • Sparkill Creek
  • Pocantico River
    • Caney Brook
    • Rockefeller Brook
    • Gory Brook
  • Sing Sing Brook
  • Croton River
    • Kisco River
    • Muscoot River
    • Cross River
      • Stone Hill River
      • Waccabuc River
    • Titicus River
    • East Branch Croton River
    • West Branch Croton River
  • Annsville Creek
    • Peekskill Hollow Creek
    • Sprout Brook
      • Canopus Creek
  • Broccy Creek
  • Popolopen Creek
    • Hemlock Brook
  • Highland Brook
    • Stoney Lonesome Brook
  • Arden Brook
  • Indian Brook
  • Crows Nest Brook
  • Foundry Brook
  • Breakneck Brook
  • Moodna Creek
    • Silver Stream
    • Woodbury Creek
      • Mineral Spring Brook
    • Cromline Creek
    • Otter Kill
      • Black Meadow Creek
  • Gordons Brook
    • Wades Brook
    • Squirrel Hollow Creek
  • Fishkill Creek
    • Clove Creek
    • Sprout Creek
      • Jackson Creek
    • Whortlekill Creek
  • Quassaick Creek
    • Bushfield Creek
    • Gedneytown Creek
  • Wappinger Creek
    • Little Wappinger Creek
  • Lattintown Creek
  • Casperkill
    • Fonteyn Kill
  • Fall Kill
  • Twaalfskill Creek
  • Maritje Kill
  • Crum Elbow Creek
    

    Rondout Drainage Basin
  • Bard Rock Creek
  • Indian Kill
  • North Staatsburg Creek
  • Black Creek (Hudson River)
  • Fallsburg Creek
  • Landsman Kill
    • Rhinebeck Kill
  • Rondout Creek
    • Wallkill River
      • Shawangunk Kill
        • Dwaar Kill (Shawangunk Kill)
        • Pakasink Creek
        • Verkeerder Kill
        • Platte Kill (Shawangunk Kill)
        • Little Shawangunk Kill
      • Dwaar Kill (Wallkill River)
      • Tin Brook
      • Muddy Kill
      • Mannayunk Kill
      • Monhagen Brook
      • Pochuck Creek
        • Wawayanda Creek
      • Rutgers Creek
        • Catlin Creek
          • Joe Creek
        • Indigot Creek
    • Cottekill Brook
    • Coxing Kill
    • Kripplebush Creek
    • Peters Kill
    • Stony Kill
      • Sanders Kill
    • Rochester Creek
      • Mill Brook (Rochester Creek)
      • Vly Brook
      • Mettacahonts Creek
    • Ver Nooy Kill
    • Beer Kill Creek
      • Fantine Kill
    • Brandy Brook
    • Trout Creek (Rondout Creek)
    • Chestnut Creek (Rondout Creek)
    • Sugarloaf Brook
    • Sundown Creek
    • High Falls Brook
    • Stone Cabin Brook
    • Bear Hole Brook
    • Buttermilk Falls Brook
    • Picket Brook
  • Mudder Kill
  • Saw Kill
  • Stony Creek
  • Esopus Creek
    • Plattekill Creek (Esopus Creek)
    • Saw Kill (Esopus Creek)
    • Bush Kill (Esopus Creek)
      • Maltby Hollow Brook
        • Wittenberg Brook
      • South Hollow Brook
      • Kanape Brook
    • Little Beaver Kill (Esopus Creek)
    • Beaver Kill (Esopus Creek)
    • Woodland Creek
      • Muddy Brook (Woodland Creek)
      • Panther Kill
      • Dougherty Branch
    • Stony Clove Creek
      • Hollow Tree Brook
    • Bushnellsville Creek
      • Angle Creek (Bushnellsville Creek)
    • Birch Creek (Esopus Creek)
    • Elk Bushkill
  • Sawyer Kill
  • Roeliff Jansen Kill
    • Shekomeko Creek
      • Bean River
    • Bash Bish Brook
  • Catskill Creek
    • Kaaterskill Creek
    • Potic Creek
      • Cob Creek
    • Jan De Bakkers Kill
    • Basic Creek
      • Wolf Fly Creek
    • Bowery Creek
    • Tenmile Creek
      • Eightmile Creek
    • Fox Creek
    • Lake Creek
  • Stockport Creek
    • Claverack Creek
      • Taghkanic Creek
    • Kinderhook Creek
      • Valatie Kill
      • Kline Kill
      • Stony Kill
      • Black River
  • Coxsackie Creek
  • Mill Creek
  • Hannacrois Creek
  • Coeymans Creek
    • Mosher Brook
    • Onesquethaw Creek
  • Schodack Creek
    • Muitzes Kill
  • Vloman Kill
    • Dowers Kill
    • Phillipin Kill
  • Moordener Kill
  • Normans Kill
    • Bozen Kill
  • Wynants Kill
  • Poesten Kill
    • Quacken Kill
  • Mohawk River
    • Alplaus Kill
    • Plotter Kill
    • North Chuctanunda Creek
    • South Chuctanunda Creek
    • Schoharie Creek
      • Cobleskill Creek
        • West Creek
      • Fox Creek
        • Switz Kill
      • Batavia Kill
      • Little West Kill
      • West Kill
        • Hunter Brook
      • East Kill
    • Cayadutta Creek
    • Canajoharie Creek
    • Caroga Creek
    • East Canada Creek
      • Spruce Creek
      • Sprite Creek
    • Nowadaga Creek
    • West Canada Creek
      • Cold Brook
      • Cincinnati Creek
      • Black Creek
      • South Branch West Canada Creek
      • Indian River
    • Fulmer Creek
    • Steele Creek
    • Moyer Creek
    • Sauquoit Creek
    • Oriskany Creek
    • Ninemile Creek
    • Lansing Kill
  • Hoosic River
    • Tomhannock Creek
    • Owl Kill
    • Walloomsac River
    • Little Hoosic River
  • Fish Creek
    • Kayaderosseras Creek
      • Glowegee Creek
  • Batten Kill
  • Slocum Creek
  • Moses Kill
    • Dead Creek
  • Snook Kill
  • Champlain Canal
  • Sturdevant Creek
  • Sacandaga River
    • Paul Creek
    • Kennyetto Creek
    • East Stony Creek
    • West Stony Creek
    • West Branch Sacandaga River
      • Hamilton Lake Stream
      • Piseco Outlet
        • Fall Stream
    • East Branch Sacandaga River
    • Kunjamuk River
  • Schroon River
    • Trout Brook
      • Minerva Stream
    • The Branch
  • Patterson Brook
  • North Creek
  • Boreas River
  • Indian River
    • Jessup River
    • Miami River
  • Cedar River
    • Rock River
  • Goodnow River
  • Newcomb River
  • Opalescent River

Delaware River Basin

Delaware Drainage Basin

• Delaware River
  • Neversink River
    • Basher Kill
    • Sheldrake Stream
    • East Branch Neversink River
      • Erts Brook
      • Riley Brook
      • Tray Mill Brook
      • Flat Brook (East Branch Neversink River)
      • Deer Shanty Brook
      • Donovan Brook
    • West Branch Neversink River
      • Fall Brook (West Branch Neversink River)
      • Flat Brook (West Branch Neversink River)
      • High Falls Brook
      • Biscuit Brook
        • Pigeon Brook
  • Mongaup River
    • Black Brook (Mongaup River)
    • West Branch Mongaup River
    • Middle Mongaup River
    • East Mongaup River
      

      Neversink Drainage Basin
  • Tenmile River
  • Callicoon Creek
    • East Branch Callicoon Creek
    • North Branch Callicoon Creek
  • East Branch Delaware River
    • Beaver Kill
      • Willowemoc Creek
        • Little Beaver Kill
        • Fir Brook
      • Jersey Brook
      • Voorhees Brook
      • Shin Creek
      • Mary Smith Brook
      • Upper Beech Hill Brook
      • Alder Creek (Beaver Kill)
      • Scudder Brook
      • Black Brook (Beaver Kill)
      • Gulf of Mexico Brook
    • Tremper Kill
    • Platte Kill
  • West Branch Delaware River
    • Little Delaware River

Susquehanna River Basin

Susquehanna Drainage Basin

• Susquehanna River
  • Chemung River
    • Baldwin Creek
    • Bentley Creek
    • Seeley Creek
      • South Creek
      • Mudlick Creek
    • Newtown Creek
    • Post Creek
    • Cohocton River
      • Meads Creek
      • Mud Creek
      • Campbell Creek
      • Fivemile Creek
      • Goff Creek
    • Tioga River
      • Canisteo River
        • Tuscarora Creek
          • North Branch Tuscarora Creek
        • Colonel Bills Creek
        • Bennetts Creek
          • Purdy Creek
        • Crosby Creek
        • Canacadea Creek
      • Cowanesque River
        • Troups Creek
        • North Fork Cowanesque River
  • Cayuta Creek
  • Wappasening Creek
  • Pipe Creek
  • Owego Creek
    • Catatonk Creek
      • Willseyville Creek
    • East Branch Owego Creek
    • West Branch Owego Creek
  • Apalachin Creek
  • Nanticoke Creek
  • Choconut Creek
  • Chenango River
    • Page Brook
    • Tioughnioga River
      • Otselic River
        • Merrill Creek
        • Mud Creek
      • Dudley Creek
      • Hunts Creek
      • Labrador Creek
      • East Branch Tioughnioga River
      • West Branch Tioughnioga River
    • Genegantslet Creek
    • Bowman Creek
    • Mill Brook
    • Canasawacta Creek
    • Sangerfield River
  • Little Snake Creek
  • Snake Creek
  • Wylie Brook
  • Unadilla River
    • Butternut Creek
    • Wharton Creek
    • Beaver Creek
  • Ouleout Creek
    • Treadwell Creek
  • Otego Creek
  • Charlotte Creek
  • Schenevus Creek
  • Cherry Valley Creek
  • Oaks Creek

St. Lawrence River Basin

Lake Champlain

Lake Champlain Drainage Basin

• Great Chazy River
  • Beaver Creek
  • North Branch Great Chazy River
• Little Chazy River
• Saranac River
  • North Branch Saranac River
• Salmon River
• Little Ausable River
• Ausable River
  • East Branch Ausable River
  • West Branch Ausable River
    • Black Brook
    • Chubb River
• Boquet River
  • North Branch Boquet River
  • Black River
• La Chute
  • Northwest Bay Brook
• East Bay
  • Poultney River
• Mettawee River
  • Wood Creek (Champlain Canal)
    • Halfway Creek
    • Big Creek
  • Indian River

St. Lawrence/Great Lakes Drainage Basin

St. Lawrence River

• Saint Lawrence River
  • English River
  • Chateauguay River
    • Marble River
  • Trout River
    • Little Trout River
  • Salmon River
    • Pike Creek
    • Little Salmon River
      • Farrington Brook
  • St. Regis River
    • Deer River
      • Trout Brook (Deer River)
      • West Branch Deer River
    • West Branch St. Regis River
      • Trout Brook (St. Regis River)
      • Stony Brook
      • Long Pond Outlet
      • Windfall Brook
    • Lake Ozonia Outlet
    • East Branch St. Regis River
      • Osgood River
    • Onion River
      

      Raquette Drainage Basin
  • Raquette River
    • Plum Brook
    • Trout Brook (Raquette River)
    • Jordan River
    • Bog River
      • Round Lake Stream
    • Ampersand Brook
    • Moose Creek
    • Cold River
    • Big Brook
    • Salmon River
    • Marion River
    • South Inlet
  • Grass River
    • Little River
    • Harrison Creek
      • Tanner Creek (Grass River)
    • North Branch Grass River
    • Middle Branch Grass River
    • South Branch Grass River
  • Brandy Brook
  • Sucker Brook
  • Oswegatchie River
    • Indian River
      • Black Creek
      • Otter Creek
      • West Creek
      • Bonaparte Creek
    • Indian Creek
    • West Branch Oswegatchie River
      • Big Creek
      • Middle Branch Oswegatchie River
        • Palmer Creek
    • Little River
    • Robinson River
  • Chippewa Creek
  • Crooked Creek
  • Cranberry Creek
  • Mullet Creek
  • French Creek

Lake Ontario

Black Drainage Basin

• Chaumont River
• Perch River
• Black River
  • Deer River
    • West Branch Deer River
  • Beaver River
    • Black Creek
  • Crystal Creek
  • Independence River
  • Roaring Brook
  • Otter Creek
  • Moose River
    • Pine Creek
    • Middle Branch Moose River
      • North Branch Moose River
    • South Branch Moose River
      • Red River
      • Indian River
        • Cobblestone Creek
      • Otter Brook
  • Sugar River
    • Moose Creek
    • White River
  • Woodhull Creek
    • Little Woodhull Creek
  • Little Black Creek
• Mill Creek
• Stony Creek
• Sandy Creek (Jefferson County, New York)
  • South Sandy Creek
    • Abijah Creek
    • Grunley Creek
  • North Branch Sandy Creek
  • Gulf Stream
• Little Sandy Creek
• Salmon River
  • North Branch Salmon River
    • Mad River
  • East Branch Salmon River
• Little Salmon River
  • North Branch Little Salmon River
  • South Branch Little Salmon River

Oswego River Drainage Basin

Butternut Creek, Onondaga County

• Oswego River
  • Oneida River
    • Caughdenoy Creek
    • Oneida Lake:
      • Scriba Creek
      • Chittenango Creek
        • Limestone Creek
        • Butternut Creek
      • Oneida Creek
      • Fish Creek
        • Wood Creek
        • East Branch Fish Creek
          • Point Rock Creek
        • West Branch Fish Creek
          • Little River (Fish Creek)
          • Mad River
            • Little River (Mad River)
  • Seneca River
    • Onondaga Lake:
      • Ninemile Creek
      • Ley Creek
      • Onondaga Creek
    • Skaneateles Creek
    • Owasco Outlet
    • Clyde River
      • Canandaigua Outlet
        • Flint Creek
        • Canandaigua Lake:
          • West River
      • Ganargua Creek
        • Mud Creek
      • Sucker Brook
    • Cayuga Lake:
      • Trumansburg Creek
      • Taughannock Creek
      • Salmon Creek
      • Fall Creek
        • Virgil Creek
      • Cayuga Inlet
        • Six Mile Creek
          • Enfield Creek
          • Buttermilk Creek
    • Seneca Lake:
      • Keuka Lake Outlet
      • Catharine Creek
• Ninemile Creek
• Sterling Creek
• Irondequoit Creek

Genesee Drainage Basin

• Genesee River
  • Black Creek (Genesee River-Monroe County, New York)
  • Oatka Creek
  • Honeoye Creek
  • Canaseraga Creek
  • Wiscoy Creek
  • Rush Creek
  • Cold Creek
  • Caneadea Creek
  • Black Creek (Genesee River-Allegany County, New York)
  • Angelica Creek
    • Baker Creek
    • Black Creek (Angelica Creek)
  • Van Campen Creek
  • Vandermark Creek
  • Dyke Creek
  • Chenunda Creek
  • Cryder Creek
• Salmon Creek
  • Otis Creek
• Sandy Creek (Monroe County, New York)
• Oak Orchard Creek
• Johnson Creek
• Eighteen Mile Creek
• Niagara River
  • Fish Creek
  • Bloody Run
  • Gill Creek
  • Cayuga Creek
  • Woods Creek
  • Burnt Ship Creek
  • Gun Creek
  • Little Sixmile Creek
  • Big Sixmile Creek
  • Spicer Creek
  • Tonawanda Creek
    • Ellicott Creek
  • Two Mile Creek
  • Scajaquada Creek

Lake Erie

• Buffalo River
  • Cazenovia Creek
    • East Branch Cazenovia Creek
    • West Branch Cazenovia Creek
  • Cayuga Creek (Erie Co., New York)
  • Buffalo Creek
    • Hunters Creek
• Eighteen Mile Creek
  • South Branch Eighteenmile Creek
• Cattaraugus Creek
  • South Branch Cattaraugus Creek
    • Mansfield Creek
  • Buttermilk Creek
• Canadaway Creek
• Chautauqua Creek
• Twentymile Creek

Mississippi River Basin

• Mississippi River
  • Ohio River
    • Allegheny River
      • French Creek
      • Brokenstraw Creek
      • Conewango Creek
        • Stillwater Creek
        • Cassadaga Creek
          • Chadakoin River
      • Red House Brook
      • Little Valley Creek
      • Great Valley Creek
        • Wrights Creek
        • Forks Creek
        • Beaver Meadows Creek
        • Devereaux Branch
      • Tunungwant Creek
      • Olean Creek
        • Ischua Creek
          • Gates Creek
        • Oil Creek
      • Haskell Creek
      • Dodge Creek
      • Oswayo Creek
        • Little Genesee Creek

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