List of rivers of North Carolina
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries alphabetically indented under each larger stream's name.
Atlantic Ocean
Chowan and lower Roanoke drainage basins
- North Landing River
- Northwest River
- North River
- Pasquotank River
- Little River
- Perquimans River
- Yeopim River
- Chowan River
- Cashie River
Roanoke River
- Roanoke River
- Scuppernong River
- Alligator River
- Long Shoal River
Pamlico and Neuse drainage basins
Pamlico River
Tar River
- Tar River
- Kennedy Creek
- Tranters Creek
- Cherry Run
- Mitchell Branch
- Maple Branch
- Aggie Run
- Pocoson Branch
- Pea Branch
- Poley Branch
- Horsepen Swamp
- Haw Branch
- Briery Swamp
- Great Branch Meadow Branch
- Pinelog Branch
- Turkey Swamp
- Bear Grass Swamp
- Collie Swamp
- Flat Swamp
- Bear Creek
- Chapel Branch
- Chicod Creek
- Juniper Branch
- Bates Branch
- Cow Swamp
- Cabin Branch
- Cross Swamp
- Juniper Branch
- Grindle Creek
- Whichard Branch
- Mill Branch
- Whichard Branch
- Moyes Run
- Cannon Swamp
- Baldwin Swamp
- Phillippi Branch
- Barber Creek
- Hardee Creek
- Meeting House Branch
- Bell Branch
- Meeting House Branch
- Greens Mill Run
- Reedy Branch
- Fomes Branch
- Parker Creek
- Schoolhouse Branch
- Harris Mill Run
- Johnsons Mill Run
- Bryan Creek
- Sains Branch
- Tyson Creek
- Lawrence Run
- Conetoe Creek
- Mitchell Swamp
- Knight Canal
- Lewis Canal
- Crisp Creek
- Fountain Fork Creek
- Mitchell Swamp
- Otter Creek
- Cheeks Mill Creek
- Town Creek
- Bynum Mill Creek
- Cokey Swamp
- Sasnett Mill Branch
- Beaverdam Branch
- Millpond Branch
- Cabin Branch
- Deloach Branch
- Dickson Branch
- Parker Branch
- Little Cokey Swamp
- Corn Creek
- Williamson Branch
- Cattail Swamp
- White Swamp
- Cattail Branch
- White Swamp
- Jerrys Creek
- Cromwell Canal
- Hendricks Creek
- Holly Creek
- East Tarboro Canal
- Tar River
Fishing Creek
- Fishing Creek
- Deep Creek
- Longs Branch
- Savage Mill Run
- Indian Branch
- Marsh Swamp
- Cow Haul Swamp
- Burnt Coat Swamp
- Breeches Swamp
- Jacket Swamp
- Breeches Swamp
- Beaverdam Swamp
- Dog Pond Branch
- Martin Swamp
- Rocky Swamp
- Jack Horse Swamp
- Beaverdam Swamp
- Black Swamp
- Pinelog Branch
- Little Fishing Creek
- Bear Swamp
- Porter Creek
- Reedy Creek
- Bobbitts Branch
- Bens Creek
- Big Branch
- Walkers Creek
- Dowlins Creek
- Crooked Swamp
- White Oak Swamp
- Shocco Creek
- Little Shocco Creek
- Cabin Branch
- Lees Branch
- Buzzard Branch
- Maple Swamp
- Hogpen Branch
- Bobs Branch
- Gunters Creek
- Reedy Branch
- Long Branch
- Buffalo Branch
- Gum Pond Branch
- Mill Branch
- Wolfpit Branch
- Black Branch
- Possumquarter Creek
- Richneck Creek
- Bridle Creek
- Horse Creek
- Phoebes Creek
- Owens Creek
- Rocky Creek
- Matthews Creek
- Deep Creek
- Fishing Creek
Swift Creek
- Swift Creek
- Leggett Canal
- White Oak Swamp
- Moccasin Creek
- Lane Swamp
- Flat Rock Branch
- Gideon Swamp
- Sandy Creek
- Tumbling Run
- Jumping Run
- Terry Branch
- Red Bud Creek
- Shelley Branch
- Deer Branch
- Richland Creek
- Crabtree Creek
- Devils Cradle Creek
- Flatrock Creek
- Buffalo Creek
- Weaver Creek
- Dickies Creek
- Cattail Creek
- Martin Creek
- Pounder Branch
- Tumbling Run
- Penders Mill Run
- Raccoon Branch
- Key Branch
- Walnut Creek
- Beech Branch
- Falling Run
- Buck Swamp
- Gay Branch
- Hornbeam Branch
- Compass Creek
- Cowlick Branch
- Goose Branch
- Stony Creek
- Pig Basket Creek
- Little Peachtree Creek
- Big Peachtree Creek
- Back Swamp
- Beaverdam Branch
- Bear Creek
- Wildcat Branch
- Maple Creek
- Polecat Branch
- Hicks Branch
- Polecat Branch
- Grape Branch
- Sapony Creek
- Big Branch
- Little Sapony Creek
- Henry Branch
- Gabe Branch
- Bear Branch
- Jacob Branch
- Long Branch
- Turkey Creek
- Coker Creek
- White Creek
- Biddie Toe Creek
- Cypress Creek
- Long Branch
- Crooked Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Big Branch Creek
- Camping Creek
- Brandy Creek
- Jumping Run
- Wolfpen Branch
- Sycamore Creek
- Fox Creek
- Coole Creek
- Bear Swamp Creek
- Buffalo Creek
- Lynch Creek
- Billys Creek
- Kings Creek
- Buffalo Creek
- Tabbs Creek
- Taylors Creek
- McGee Creek
- Middle Creek
- Ford Creek
- Gibbs Creek
- Sand Creek
- Fishing Creek
- Coon Creek
- Hachers Run
- Aycock Creek
- Johnson Creek
- Bollens Creek
- Boulding Creek
- Cattail Creek
- Jackson Creek
- Rocky Creek
- Owen Creek
- North Fork Tar River
- Shelton Creek
- Fox Creek
- Cub Creek
- Moore Swamp
- Swift Creek
Neuse River
- Neuse River
- Swan Creek
- Broad Creek
- Brown Creek
- Brown Creek
- Orchard Creek
- South River
- Hardy Creek
- Big Creek
- Mulberry Creek
- Old House Creek
- Dixon Creek
- Coffee Creek
- Royal Creek
- Little Creek
- Eastman Creek
- Southwest Creek
- Doe Creek
- Buck Creek
- Duck Creek
- Neal Creek
- Elishu Creek
- Miry Gut
- West Fork
- East Fork
- Rich Island Gut
- Pierce Creek
- Berrys Creek
- Garbacon Creek
- Whittaker Creek
- Greens Creek
- Camp Creek
- Smith Creek
- Morris Creek
- Smith Creek
- Kershaw Creek
- Camp Creek
- Adams Creek
- Godfrey Creek
- Delamar Creek
- Sandy Huss Creek
- Dumpling Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Jonaquin Creek
- Cullie Creek
- Kellum Creek
- Kearney Creek
- Issac Creek
- Back Creek
- Courts Creek
- Great Neck Creek
- Long Creek
- Dawson Creek
- Tarkiln Creek
- Granny Gut
- Deep Run
- Wheeler Gut
- Fork Run
- Clubfoot Creek
- Mitchell Creek
- Big Branch
- Snake Branch
- Gulden Creek
- Mortens Mill Pond
- East Prong
- West Prong
- Mitchell Creek
- Gatlin Creek
- Sassafras Branch
- King Creek
- Cherry Branch
- Alligator Gut
- Gum Branch
- Handcock Creek
- Still Gut
- Reeds Gut
- Cohooque Creek
- Still Gut
- Barney Branch
- Spe Branch
- Little John Creek
- Jacks Branch
- Dolls Gut
- Shop Branch
- Deep Branch
- Moebucks Branch
- Still Gut
- Mill Creek
- Beard Creek
- Caraway Creek
- Purifoy Gut
- Cedar Gut
- East Prong
- Slocum Creek
- Anderson Creek
- Tucker Creek
- Sandy Run
- Miry Branch
- Goodwin Creek
- Daniels Branch
- Sandy Run
- Mill Creek
- Hunters Branch
- Alligator Gut
- Cedar Creek
- East Prong
- Sandy Branch
- Caps Branch
- Southwest Prong
- Wolf Pit Branch
- Black Swamp Creek
- East Branch
- West Branch
- Lower Duck Creek
- Otter Creek
- Crooked Run
- Goose Creek
- Cypress Creek
- Alexander Swamp
- Black Creek
- Simmons Branch
- Deep Run Branch
- East Fork
- West Fork
- Upper Broad Creek
- Deep Run
- Sasses Branch
- Mill Swamp
- Morgan Swamp
- Possum Swamp
- Savannah Bridge Swamp
- Northwest Creek
- Duck Creek
- Scotts Creek
- Trent River
- Lawson Creek
- Brice Creek
- East Prong
- West Prong
- Great Branch
- Lees Branch
- Black Branch
- Georges Branch
- Hoods Creek
- Wilson Creek
- Reedy Branch
- Rocky Run
- Miry Hole Branch
- Island Creek
- Scott Creek
- West Prong Raccoon Creek
- Mill Creek
- Goshen Branch
- Little Hell Creek
- Mill Run
- Long Branch
- Beaverdam Creek
- Jumping Creek
- French Branch
- Crooked Run
- Musselshell Branch
- Resolution Branch
- Beaver Creek
- Chinquapin Branch
- Poplar Branch
- Pocoson Branch
- Little Chinquapin Branch
- Jack Cabin Branch
- Mill Branch
- Cypress Creek
- Reedy Branch
- Black Swamp
- Tuckahoe Creek
- Joshua Creek
- Beaverdam Swamp
- Horse Branch
- Running Branch
- Smith Creek
- Mills Branch
- Rennys Creek
- Bachelor Creek
- Caswell Branch
- Round Tree Branch
- Beech Tree Branch
- Jumping Run
- Beaverdam Branch
- Deep Branch
- Rollover Creek
- Hollis Branch
- Swift Creek
- Little Swift Creek
- Fisher Swamp
- Beaverdam Swamp
- Pine Tree Swamp
- Bushy Fork
- Fisher Swamp
- Bear Branch
- Mauls Swamp
- Palmetto Swamp
- Clayroot Swamp
- Creeping Swamp
- Polland Swamp
- Indian Well Swamp
- Thorofare Swamp
- Creeping Swamp
- Fork Swamp
- Simmon Branch
- Horsepen Swamp
- Gum Swamp
- Little Swift Creek
- Pinetree Creek
- Taylor Creek
- Turkey Quarter Creek
- Core Creek
- Flat Swamp
- Mill Branch
- Grape Creek
- Village Creek
- Halfmoon Creek
- Grinnel Creek
- Alum Springs Branch
- Contentnea Creek
- Eagle Swamp
- Little Contentnea Creek
- Middle Swamp
- Sandy Run
- Pinelog Branch
- Oldwoman Branch
- Jacob Branch
- Black Swamp
- Langs Mill Run
- Black Swamp
- Thompson Swamp
- Lighter Knot Swamp
- Ward Run
- Middle Swamp
- Polecat Branch
- Wheat Swamp
- Hallam Branch
- Mussel Run
- Beaverdam Run
- Rainbow Creek
- Sowell Run
- Horsepen Branch
- Shepherd Run
- Poorhouse Run
- Panther Swamp Creek
- Tyson Marsh
- Spring Branch
- Reedy Branch
- Mink Point Branch
- Jacks Fork
- Mill Run
- Washington Branch
- Fort Run
- Lewis Branch
- Lang Branch
- Nahunta Swamp
- Appletree Swamp
- Cow Branch
- Beaver Branch
- Mill Branch
- Button Branch
- Buzzard Branch
- Hams Prong
- Beaver Dam
- The Slough
- Exum Mill Branch
- Jimmy Prong
- Mocassin Run
- Long Branch
- Exum Mill Branch
- Poplar Branch
- Buck Meadow Branch
- Perkins Old Mill Branch
- Beaman Run
- Howell Swamp
- Water Branch
- Watery Branch
- Toisnot Swamp
- Goss Swamp
- Whiteoak Swamp
- Buck Branch
- Mill Branch
- Little Swamp
- Beaverdam Creek
- Whiteoak Swamp
- Black Creek
- Aycock Swamp
- Mill Run
- Great Swamp
- Juniper Swamp
- White Oak Swamp
- Brandy Branch Swamp
- Juniper Swamp
- Cedar Creek
- Lee Swamp
- Robin Swamp
- Hominy Swamp
- Bloomery Swamp
- Shepard Branch
- Mill Branch
- Little Swamp
- Marsh Swamp
- Buckhorn Branch
- Little Creek
- Mill Branch
- Turkey Creek
- Haw Branch
- Camp Branch
- Big Branch
- Driving Branch
- Press Prong
- Wolfharbor Branch
- Haw Branch
- Moccasin Creek
- Bull Branch
- Little Creek
- Beaverdam Creek
- Mosley Creek
- Alligator Branch
- Snake Hole Branch
- Little Snake Hole Branch
- Harrys Branch
- Folley Branch
- Beaverdam Branch
- Bone Gray Branch
- Stonyton Creek
- Jericho Run
- Briery Run
- Taylors Branch
- Southwest Creek
- Heath Branch
- Mill Branch
- Strawberry Branch
- Mott Swamp
- Spring Branch
- Clarks Branch
- Hornpipe Branch
- Horse Branch
- Turkey Branch
- Deep Run
- Toms Branch
- Gray Branch
- Deep Run
- Adkin Branch
- Peter Creek
- Falling Creek
- Gum Swamp Creek
- White Marsh Run
- Moseley Creek
- Groundnut Creek
- Jumping Run
- Whitleys Creek
- Squirrel Creek
- Manley Branch
- Vernon Branch
- Belch Branch
- Bear Creek
- Mill Branch
- Meeting House Branch
- West Bear Creek
- Peters Branch
- Old Mill Branch
- Little Marsh Run
- Mill Run
- Hullett Branch
- Drew Branch
- Hinson Branch
- Drew Branch
- Seneca Branch
- Hardy Mill Run
- Trotters Creek
- Frank Nunn Branch
- Bens Branch
- Tar River
- Jacks Branch
- Dalys Creek
- Panther Creek
- John Benton Branch
- Trotters Creek
- Cox Creek
- South Prong
- West Prong
- Mill Creek
- Still Creek
- Walnut Creek
- Walker Mill Run
- Powell Run
- Sleepy Creek
- Cabin Branch
- Tommy Reed Creek
- Burnt Mill Branch
- Pine Level Branch
- Green Branch
- Fellows Branch
- Stoney Creek
- Billy Branch
- Reedy Branch
- Howell Branch
- Stoney Run
- Carroway Creek
- Poplar Branch
- Little River
- Walnut Creek
- Crabtree Creek
- Ellerbe Creek
- Eno River
- Flat River
- North River
- Newport River
- White Oak River
- New River
Cape Fear River
Cape Fear River
- Cape Fear River
- Elizabeth River
- Brunswick River
- Northeast Cape Fear River
- Black River
- South River
- Black River
- Great Coharie Creek
- Little Coharie Creek
- Six Runs Creek
- South River
- Donoho Creek
- Bandeau Creek
- Hammonds Creek
- Pemberton Creek
- Mulford Creek
- Turnbull Creek
- Browns Creek
- Ellis Creek
- Bakers Creek
- Harrison Creek
- Phillips Creek
- Georgia Branch
- Willis Creek
- Grays Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Rockfish Creek (Cape Fear River tributary)
- Cross Creek (Cape Fear River tributary)
- Little River
- Juniper Creek
- Upper Little River
- Thorntons Creek
- Buies Creek
- Poorhouse Creek
- Dry Creek
- Neills Creek
- Hector Creek
- Fish Creek
- Little Creek
- Avents Creek
- Camels Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Parkers Creek
- Daniels Creek
- Fall Creek
- Buckhorn Creek
- Bush Creek
- Gulf Creek
- Lick Creek
- Little Shaddox Creek
- Wombles Creek
- Deep River
- Rocky Branch
- Rocky River
- Little Buffalo Creek
- Georges Creek
- Big Buffalo Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Patterson Creek
- Pocket Creek
- Indian Creek
- Smiths Creek
- Line Creek
- Big Governors Creek
- McLendons Creek
- Lick Creek
- Tysons Creek
- Scotchman Creek
- Buffalo Creek
- Falls Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Bear Creek
- Grassy Creek
- Fork Creek
- Flat Creek
- Brush Creek
- Richland Creek
- Back Branch
- Broad Mouth Branch
- Millstone Creek
- Mill Creek
- Reed Creek
- Sandy Creek
- Bush Creek
- Gabriels Creek
- Hasketts Creek
- Polecat Creek
- Muddy Creek
- Hickory Creek
- Richland Creek
- Copper Branch
- Bull Run
- West Fork Deep River
- East Fork Deep River
- Haw River
- Shaddox Creek
- New Hope River (submerged)
- Stinking Creek
- Roberson Creek
- Pokeberry Creek
- Brooks Creek
- Wilkinson Creek
- Dry Creek
- Terrells Creek (Left Bank)
- Terrells Creek (Right Bank)
- Collins Creek
- Big Branch
- Cane Creek (Right Bank)
- Cane Creek (Left Bank)
- Marys Creek
- Motes Creek
- Meadow Creek
- Varnals Creek
- Haw Creek
- Big Alamance Creek
- Back Creek
- Boyds Creek
- Service Creek
- Stony Creek
- Travis Creek
- Reedy Fork
- Giles Creek
- Rose Creek
- Little Troublesome Creek
- Troublesome Creek
- Candy Creek
- Benaja Creek
- Mears Fork
- Rock Branch
- Lockwood Folly River
- Shallotte River
- Calabash River
- Little River
Pee Dee River
- Pee Dee River
- Waccamaw River
- Little Pee Dee River (SC)
- Lumber River
- Drowning Creek
- Hills Creek
- Little Creek
- Mountain Creek
- Quewhiffle Creek
- Aberdeen Creek
- Horse Creek
- Deep Creek
- Big Branch
- Naked Creek
- Jackson Creek
- Drowning Creek
- Lumber River
- Lynches River
- Little River
- Brown Creek
- Rocky River
- Uwharrie River
- Yadkin River
- Dutch John Creek
- Abbotts Creek
- South Yadkin River
- Little Yadkin River
- Ararat River
- Fisher River
- Mitchell River
- Elkin Creek
- Little Elkin Creek
- Grays Creek
- Roaring River
- Mulberry Creek
- Reddies River
- Hoopers Branch
- Lousy Creek
- Kilby Branch
- Tumbling Shoals Creek
- Quarry Branch
Santee drainage basin
- Santee River (SC)
- Wateree River (SC)
Catawba River
- Catawba River
- South Fork Catawba River
- Henry Fork
- Jacob Fork River
- Lower Little River
- Middle Little River
- Upper Little River
- Johns River
- Linville River
- South Fork Catawba River
- Catawba River
- Congaree River (SC)
- Broad River
- Pacolet River (SC)
- Bowens River
- First Broad River
- Second Broad River
- Green River
- Hungry River
- Little Hungry River
- Hungry River
- Broad River
- Savannah River (SC and GA)
- Seneca River (SC)
- Keowee River (SC)
- Toxaway River
- Whitewater River
- Thompson River
- Keowee River (SC)
- Tugaloo River (SC and GA)
- Seneca River (SC)
- Adams Branch (Richardson Creek tributary)
Gulf of Mexico
French Broad drainage basin
- Mississippi River
- Ohio River (KY, WV)
- Tennessee River (KY,TN)
- Hiwassee River
- Nottely River
- Valley River
- Little Tennessee River
- French Broad River
- Nolichucky River
- Pigeon River
- Swannanoa River
- Mills River
- Little River
- Davidson River
- Ivy River (Creek)
- Holston River (TN)
New River drainage basin- South Fork Holston River (TN)
- Hiwassee River
- Kanawha River (WV)
- New River
- Little River
- North Fork New River
- South Fork New River
- New River
- Tennessee River (KY,TN)
- Ohio River (KY, WV)
Alphabetically
- Adams Creek
- Afton Run
- Alligator River
- Ararat River
- Back Creek (Rocky River tributary)
- Barkers Branch
- Beaverdam Creek (Lanes Creek tributary)
- Big Branch (Lanes Creek tributary)
- Black River
- Black Run Creek
- Black Jack Branch (Brown Creek tributary)
- Blackwell Branch
- Bluewing Creek
- Bowes Branch
- Brice Creek
- Broad River
- Brown Creek (Pee Dee River tributary)
- Caddle Creek (Ararat River tributary)
- Cane Creek (Hyco River tributary)
- Cane River
- Canebreak Branch
- Cape Fear River
- Carolina Creek
- Cashie River
- Castle Creek
- Catawba River
- Cedar Branch (Lanes Creek tributary)
- Cheoah River
- Chowan River
- Clarks Creek
- Cobbs Creek
- Cold Water Creek
- Coleman River
- Coneys Creek
- Cool Spring Branch
- Cub Creek
- Cullasaja River
- Dan River
- Davidson River
- Deep River
- Doby Creek
- Double Creek
- Elk River
- Eno River
- First Broad River
- Fisher River
- French Broad River
- Great Pee Dee River
- Ghent Creek
- Gold Branch
- Gourdvine Creek
- Great Coharie Creek
- Green River
- Haw River
- Henry Fork
- Hoods Creek
- Hungry River
- Hyco Creek
- Hyco River
- Irish Buffalo Creek
- Jacob Fork
- Jennie Wolf Creek
- Johns River
- Jones Creek
- Kilgore Creek
- Lacey Branch
- Lick Branch
- Lick Branch (Lanes Creek tributary)
- Linville River
- Little Buffalo Creek
- Little Coharie Creek
- Little Duck Creek
- Little Fisher River
- Little Hungry River
- Little Meadow Creek
- Little River (Albemarle Sound)
- Little River (Cape Fear River tributary)
- Little River (Eno River tributary)
- Little River (French Broad River tributary)
- Little River (Horry County, South Carolina)
- Little River (Jacob Fork)
- Little River (Neuse River tributary)
- Little River (North Carolina-Virginia)
- Little River (Pee Dee River tributary)
- Little River (Roanoke River tributary)
- Little Tennessee River
- Little Uwharrie River
- Lockwood Folly River
- Lower Little River
- Lumber River
- Lynch Creek
- Lynches River
- Mallard Creek
- Mayo River
- Meherrin River
- Middle Little River
- Mill Creek (Lanes Creek tributary)
- Mill Creek (Trent River tributary)
- Mills River
- Mill Run (Trent River tributary)
- Mitchell River
- Nantahala River
- Negro Creek
- Neuse River
- New Hope River
- New River – western North Carolina
- New River – southeastern North Carolina
- Nolichucky River
- Norkett Branch
- North Toe River
- Nottely River
- North Pacolet River
- Panther Branch
- Pine Log Creek
- North River
- Northeast Cape Fear River
- Pamlico River
- Panther Branch
- Pasquotank River
- Pee Dee River
- Perquimans River
- Pigeon River
- Powells Creek
- Reddies River
- Reedy Fork (Haw River tributary)
- Reedy Fork (Hyco Creek tributary)
- Richland Creek
- Roanoke River including Staunton River
- Roaring River
- Rocky River
- Rough Butt Creek
- Salem Creek
- Sargents Creek
- Scuppernong River
- Second Broad River
- Shallotte River
- Six Run Creek
- South Fork Catawba River
- South Hyco Creek
- South River
- South River (Neuse River estuary)
- South Toe River
- South Yadkin River
- Stegall Branch
- Stony Creek
- Storys Creek
- Sugartree Creek
- Swannanoa River
- Tar River
- Toby Creek
- Trent River
- Tuckasegee River
- Upper Little River
- Uwharrie River
- Waccamaw River
- Watauga River
- Water Branch
- Waxhaw Branch
- White Oak River
- Whitewater River
- Wicker Branch
- Wide Mouth Branch
- Wilson Creek
- Wiccacon River
- Wolf Meadow Branch
- Yadkin River
See also
References
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of North Carolina (1974)
External links
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