List of rivers of Pennsylvania
This is a list of streams and rivers in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Susquehanna River
Gulf of Mexico
(via the Mississippi River)
Ohio River
Allegheny River
Monongahela River
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- Monongahela River
- Panther Hollow Run
- Becks Run
- Streets Run
- West Run
- Ninemile Run
- Turtle Creek
- Thompson Run
- Crooked Run
- Youghiogheny River
- Long Run
- Crawford Run
- Rock Run
- Gillespie Run
- Sewickley Creek
- Little Sewickley Creek
- Kelly Run (Sewickley Creek)
- Hunters Run
- Pinkerton Run
- Wilson Run
- Jacks Run
- Cedar Creek
- Jacobs Creek
- Browneller Run
- Washington Run
- Virgin Run
- Furnace Run
- Smiley Run
- Hickman Run
- Dunbar Creek
- Laurel Run
- Indian Creek
- Morgan Run
- Workman Run
- Bear Run
- Meadow Run
- Rock Spring Run
- Drake Run
- Ramcat Run
- Casselman River
- Hen Run
- Tub Run
- Reason Run
- Lewis Run (Monongahela River)
- Peters Creek
- Lewis Run (Peters Creek)
- Beam Run
- Lick Run
- Piney Fork
- Wylie Run
- Fallen Timber Run
- Lobbs Run
- Kelly Run (Monongahela River)
- Bunola Run
- Houston Run
- Mingo Creek
- Dry Run
- Pigeon Creek
- Beckets Run
- Maple Creek
- Speers Run
- Hooders Run
- Little Redstone Creek
- Redstone Creek
- Dunlap Creek
- Tenmile Creek
- Rush Run
- Bates Run
- Muddy Creek
- Wallace Run
- Antram Run
- Middle Run
- Browns Run
- Little Whiteley Creek
- Whiteley Creek
- Cats Run
- Jacobs Creek
- Georges Creek
- Dunkard Creek
- Cheat River
- Camp Run
Alphabetically
- Allegheny Creek
- Allegheny Portage Creek
- Allegheny River
- Alloway Creek
- Anderson Creek
- Angelica Creek
- Antes Creek
- Antietam Creek (Schuylkill River)
- Antietam Creek, Potomac River tributary
- Antram Run
- Apalachin Creek
- Aquashicola Creek
- Armstrong Creek
- Asylum Run
- Aughwick Creek
- Babb Creek
- Back Creek
- Bailey Run
- Bald Eagle Creek (Little Juniata River)
- Bald Eagle Creek (West Branch Susquehanna River)
- Barden Brook
- Bates Run
- Beam Run
- Bear Creek (Allegheny River)
- Bear Creek (Lehigh River)
- Bear Creek (Loyalsock Creek)
- Bear Run (Walnut Creek)
- Bear Run (West Branch Susquehanna River)
- Bear Run (Youghiogheny River)
- Beaver Creek
- Beaver River
- Beaver Run
- Beckets Run
- Becks Run
- Beech Creek
- Bennett Branch
- Bens Creek
- Bentley Creek
- Bermudian Creek
- Big Beaver Creek
- Big Cove Creek
- Big Elk Creek
- Big Mill Creek
- Big Sandy Creek
- Big Spring Creek
- Big Wapwallopen Creek
- Biles Creek
- Black Creek (Lehigh River)
- Black Creek (Nescopeck Creek)
- Black Lake Run
- Black Moshannon Creek
- Black Run
- Blacklegs Creek
- Blacklick Creek
- Blacklog Creek
- Blacks Creek
- Blockhouse Creek
- Bloody Run (Poquessing Creek)
- Bloody Run (Raystown Branch Juniata River)
- Bobs Creek
- Bonnie Brook
- Bow Creek
- Bowman Creek
- Brandywine Creek (Christina River)
- Brandywine Creek (Quittapahilla Creek)
- Breakneck Creek
- Bridge Creek
- Brills Run
- Broad Run
- Brodhead Creek
- Brokenstraw Creek
- Browneller Run
- Browns Creek
- Browns Run
- Brush Creek (Connoquenessing Creek)
- Brush Creek (Raystown Branch Juniata River)
- Brush Creek (Shaffer Creek)
- Brush Creek (Turtle Creek)
- Brush Creek (Wills Creek)
- Buck Run (Brandywine Creek)
- Buck Run (West Branch Conococheague Creek)
- Buckwha Creek
- Buffalo Creek (Allegheny River)
- Buffalo Creek (Juniata River)
- Buffalo Creek (Ohio River)
- Buffalo Creek (West Branch Susquehanna River)
- Bull Creek
- Bunola Run
- Bush Kill
- Bushkill Creek
- Bushy Run
- Byberry Creek
- Cacoosing Creek
- Caldwell Creek
- Camp Run (Connoquenessing Creek)
- Camp Run (Monongahela River)
- Carley Brook
- Carnahan Run
- Casselman River
- Catasauqua Creek
- Catawissa Creek
- Cats Run
- Cayuta Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Cedar Run
- Chapman Run
- Chartiers Creek
- Chartiers Run (Allegheny River)
- Chartiers Run (Chartiers Creek)
- Cheat River
- Chemung River
- Cherry Creek
- Chest Creek
- Chester Creek
- Chillisquaque Creek
- Chiques Creek, known as Chickies Creek prior to 2002
- Choconut Creek
- Christina River
- Clarion River
- Clark Creek
- Clear Creek
- Clear Shade Creek
- Clearfield Creek
- Clover Creek
- Cobbs Creek
- Cocalico Creek
- Cocolamus Creek
- Codorus Creek
- Coffee Creek
- Cohocksink Creek
- Cohoquinoque Creek
- Colberts Run
- Conemaugh River
- Conestoga River
- Conewago Creek (east), in Lebanon, Dauphin, and Lancaster counties
- Conewago Creek (west), in Adams and York counties
- Conewango Creek
- Conneaut Creek
- Conneaut Outlet
- Conneauttee Creek
- Connoquenessing Creek
- Conococheague Creek
- Conodoguinet Creek
- Conowingo Creek
- Conoy Creek
- Cooks Run
- Cool Spring Creek
- Coon Creek
- Corey Creek
- Cornplanter Run
- Cove Creek
- Cowanesque River
- Cowanshannock Creek
- Coxes Creek
- Crawford Run
- Cresheim Creek
- Crooked Creek (Allegheny River)
- Crooked Creek (Lake Erie)
- Crooked Creek (Little Shenango River)
- Crooked Creek (Tioga River)
- Crooked Run
- Cross Creek
- Cross Fork
- Crum Creek
- Cryder Creek
- Cussewago Creek
- Darby Creek
- Dark Shade Creek
- Deep Creek
- Deep Run
- Deer Creek (Allegheny River)
- Deer Creek (Clarion River)
- Deer Creek (Maryland)
- Delaware River
- Dennison Run
- Dismal Run
- Donegal Creek
- Doubling Gap Creek
- Drake Run
- Driftwood Branch
- Dry Run
- Dunbar Creek
- Dunkard Creek
- Dunkard Fork
- Dunlap Creek
- Dunning Creek
- Dutch Fork
- Dyberry Creek
- East Branch Antietam Creek
- East Branch Brandywine Creek
- East Branch Clarion River
- East Branch Conneaut Creek
- East Branch Oil Creek
- East Branch Perkiomen Creek
- East Branch Sugar Creek
- East Branch Tunkhannock Creek
- East Branch Tunungwant Creek
- East Branch Wallenpaupack Creek
- East Branch Wyalusing Creek
- East Fork Sinnemahoning Creek
- East Hickory Creek
- East Licking Creek
- East Sandy Creek
- Eightmile Creek
- Elk Creek (Clarion River)
- Elk Creek (Lake Erie)
- Elk Creek (Loyalsock Creek)
- Elk Creek (Penns Creek)
- Elk Run
- Elliotts Run
- Elwoods Run
- Enlow Fork
- Equinunk Creek
- Evitts Creek
- Fallen Timber Run
- First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek
- Fishing Creek (Bald Eagle Creek)
- Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)
- Fishing Creek (Perry County)
- Fishing Creek (Susquehanna River)
- Fishing Creek (York County)
- Fourmile Creek
- Fourmile Run
- Frankford Creek
- Frankstown Branch Juniata River
- Freeman Run
- French Creek (Allegheny River)
- French Creek (Schuylkill River)
- Furnace Run
- Gazzam Run
- Genesee River
- Georges Creek
- Gifford Run
- Gillespie Run
- Girtys Run
- Glade Run
- Glass Run
- Good Spring Creek
- Grassy Meadow Run
- Great Trough Creek
- Green Creek
- Gunpowder River
- Hammer Creek
- Hammersley Fork
- Hammond Creek
- Harmon Creek
- Harveys Creek
- Havice Creek
- Hay Creek
- Hemlock Creek
- Hen Run
- Hickman Run
- Hickory Run
- Hoffer Creek
- Hogestown Run
- Hokendauqua Creek
- Holtz Run
- Honey Creek
- Hooders Run
- Houston Run
- Hunters Run (Ridley Creek)
- Hunters Run (Sewickley Creek)
- Huntington Creek
- Indian Creek (Cobbs Creek)
- Indian Creek (Hokendauqua Creek)
- Indian Creek (Youghiogheny River)
- Indian Run
- Indiantown Run
- Irish Creek
- Iron Run
- Ironstone Creek
- Ithan Creek
- Jacks Creek
- Jacks Run
- Jacobs Creek (Monongahela River)
- Jacobs Creek (Pennsylvania), Youghiogheny River tributary
- Jeans Run
- Johnson Creek
- Jordan Creek
- Juniata River
- Kaufman Run
- Kelly Run (Monongahela River)
- Kelly Run (Sewickley Creek)
- Kettle Creek
- Kings Creek (Elk Creek)
- Kings Creek (Ohio River)
- Kings Gap Hollow Run
- Kinzua Creek
- Kishacoquillas Creek
- Kiskiminetas River
- Kistler Creek
- Kitchen Creek
- Knapp Creek
- Kreutz Creek
- Lackawanna River
- Lackawaxen River
- Lake Creek
- Lamson Run
- Lardintown Run
- Larrys Creek
- Latimore Creek
- Laurel Hill Creek
- Laurel Run (Bennett Branch Sinnemahoning Creek)
- Laurel Run (Sherman Creek)
- Laurel Run (Youghiogheny River)
- LeBoeuf Creek
- Lehigh River
- LeTort Spring Run
- Levitt Branch
- Lewis Run (Monongahela River)
- Lewis Run (Peters Creek)
- Lick Run (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania)
- Lick Run (Cooks Run)
- Licking Creek (Clarion River)
- Licking Creek, Potomac River tributary
- Likens Run
- Lititz Run
- Little Aughwick Creek
- Little Beaver Creek (Pequea Creek)
- Little Beaver Creek, Ohio River tributary
- Little Brokenstraw Creek
- Little Buffalo Creek (Juniata River)
- Little Buffalo Creek, Buffalo Creek tributary
- Little Bull Creek
- Little Chartiers Creek
- Little Chiques Creek
- Little Clearfield Creek
- Little Conemaugh River
- Little Conestoga Creek
- Little Conewago Creek (east), in Lebanon, Dauphin, and Lancaster counties
- Little Conewago Creek (west), in Adams and York counties
- Little Connoquenessing Creek
- Little Creek
- Little Elk Creek (Elk Creek)
- Little Elk Creek, Elk River tributary
- Little Fishing Creek
- Little Genesee Creek
- Little Juniata Creek
- Little Juniata River
- Little Lehigh Creek
- Little Loyalsock Creek
- Little Mahantango Creek
- Little Mahoning Creek
- Little Muddy Creek
- Little Muncy Creek
- Little Neshaminy Creek
- Little Neshannock Creek
- Little Northkill Creek
- Little Pine Creek
- Little Pucketa Creek
- Little Redstone Creek
- Little Sandy Creek (Big Sandy Creek)
- Little Sandy Creek (Redbank Creek)
- Little Sandy Creek (Sandy Creek)
- Little Schuylkill River
- Little Sewickley Creek
- Little Shenango River
- Little Spring Creek
- Little Swatara Creek
- Little Toby Creek
- Little Tonoloway Creek
- Little Whiteley Creek
- Little Wiconisco Creek
- Little Wills Creek
- Little Yellow Creek
- Lizard Creek
- Lobbs Run
- Long Run
- Lost Creek
- Lower Little Swatara Creek
- Loyalhanna Creek
- Loyalsock Creek
- Lycoming Creek
- Lyman Run
- Lynch Run
- Mahanoy Creek
- Mahantango Creek (east bank Susquehanna River)
- Mahantango Creek (Snyder County) (west bank Susquehanna River)
- Mahoning Creek (Lehigh River)
- Mahoning Creek, Allegheny River tributary
- Mahoning River
- Maiden Creek
- Manada Creek
- Manatawny Creek
- Maple Creek
- Marsh Creek (Bald Eagle Creek)
- Marsh Creek (Monocacy River)
- Marsh Creek (Pine Creek)
- Martins Creek (Delaware River)
- Martins Creek (Tunkhannock Creek)
- Marvin Creek
- Matthews Run
- Mauch Chunk Creek
- McDowell Run
- McKee Run
- McMichael Creek
- Meadow Run
- Medix Run
- Mehoopany Creek
- Merrybrook Run
- Meshoppen Creek
- Middle Branch Brodhead Creek
- Middle Creek (Lackawaxen River)
- Middle Creek (Penns Creek)
- Middle Creek (Toms Creek)
- Middle Run
- Middle Spring Creek
- Mill Creek (Clarion River)
- Mill Creek (Conestoga River)
- Mill Creek (Juniata River)
- Mill Creek (Lake Erie)
- Mill Creek (Loyalhanna Creek)
- Mill Creek (Loyalsock Creek)
- Mill Creek (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania)
- Mill Creek (Philadelphia)
- Mill Creek (Port Carbon, Pennsylvania)
- Mill Creek (Sandy Lick Creek)
- Mill Creek (Tioga River)
- Mill Creek (White Clay Creek)
- Millstone Creek
- Mingo Creek (Monongahela River)
- Mingo Creek (Schuylkill River)
- Monocacy Creek (Schuylkill River)
- Monocacy Creek, Lehigh River tributary
- Monongahela River
- Morgan Run
- Moshannon Creek
- Mosquito Creek
- Mountain Creek (Georges Creek)
- Mountain Creek (Yellow Breeches Creek)
- Muckinipattis Creek
- Mud Run (Bermudian Creek)
- Mud Run (Lehigh River)
- Muddy Creek (Conestoga River)
- Muddy Creek (French Creek)
- Muddy Creek (Monongahela River)
- Muddy Creek (Slippery Rock Creek)
- Muddy Creek (Susquehanna River)
- Muddy Run (Conodoguinet Creek)
- Muncy Creek
- Naamans Creek
- Naylors Run
- Nescopeck Creek
- Neshaminy Creek
- Neshannock Creek
- Nesquehoning Creek
- Newtown Creek
- Nine Partners Creek
- Ninemile Run
- North Branch Bear Creek
- North Branch Blacklick Creek
- North Branch Mahantango Creek
- North Branch Plum Creek
- North Branch Susquehanna River
- North Deer Creek
- North Fork Cowanesque River
- North Fork Dunkard Fork
- North Fork Little Beaver Creek
- North Fork Redbank Creek, Redbank Creek tributary
- Northkill Creek
- Norwegian Creek
- Octoraro Creek
- Ohio River
- Oil Creek
- Ontelaunee Creek
- Opossum Creek
- Oswayo Creek
- Otter Creek
- Panther Creek
- Panther Hollow Run
- Paper Mill Run
- Paradise Creek
- Park Creek
- Patterson Creek
- Paxton Creek
- Penns Creek
- Pennsylvania Fork Fish Creek
- Pennypack Creek
- Pequea Creek
- Perkiomen Creek
- Peters Creek
- Phipps Run
- Pickering Creek
- Pigeon Creek (Monongahela River)
- Pigeon Creek (Schuylkill River)
- Pine Creek (Allegheny River)
- Pine Creek (Armstrong County, Pennsylvania)
- Pine Creek (Little Schuylkill River)
- Pine Creek (Mahantango Creek)
- Pine Creek (Oil Creek)
- Pine Creek (Penns Creek)
- Pine Creek (Pennsylvania), West Branch Susquehanna River tributary
- Pine Run
- Piney Creek (Clarion River)
- Piney Creek (Frankstown Branch Juniata River)
- Piney Fork
- Pinkerton Run
- Pithole Creek
- Pleasant Stream
- Plum Creek (Allegheny River)
- Plum Creek (Crooked Creek)
- Plum Run
- Plunketts Creek
- Pocono Creek
- Pohopoco Creek
- Poquessing Creek
- Potato Creek
- Powell Creek
- Pucketa Creek
- Pymatuning Creek
- Quakake Creek
- Quemahoning Creek
- Quittapahilla Creek
- Raccoon Creek (Beaver County, Pennsylvania)
- Raccoon Creek (Erie County, Pennsylvania)
- Raccoon Creek (Juniata River)
- Rachel Carson Run
- Ramcat Run
- Rattling Creek
- Rattling Run
- Rauchtown Run
- Rausch Creek
- Raystown Branch Juniata River
- Reason Run
- Red Clay Creek
- Redbank Creek
- Redstone Creek
- Riddle Run
- Ridley Creek
- Roaring Brook
- Roaring Creek
- Robinson Fork
- Rock Creek
- Rock Run
- Rock Spring Run
- Rocky Run
- Ruff Creek
- Rush Run
- Sacony Creek
- Saddler Creek
- Salmon Creek
- Salt Lick Creek
- Sandy Creek
- Sandy Lick Creek
- Sandy Run
- Saucon Creek
- Schrader Creek
- Schuylkill River
- Schwaben Creek
- Scott Run
- Scotts Creek
- Scotts Run
- Scrubgrass Creek
- Seeley Creek
- Sevenmile Creek
- Sewickley Creek
- Shade Creek (Blacklog Creek)
- Shade Creek, Stony Creek tributary
- Shadigee Creek
- Shaffer Creek
- Shamokin Creek
- Shaver Creek
- Shawnee Branch
- Shenandoah Creek
- Shenango River
- Sherman Creek
- Shickshinny Creek
- Shohola Creek
- Sideling Hill Creek (Aughwick Creek)
- Sideling Hill Creek (Potomac River)
- Silver Creek (Bear Creek)
- Silver Creek (Schuylkill River)
- Sinking Creek
- Sinking Run
- Sinnemahoning Creek
- Sinnemahoning Portage Creek
- Sixmile Creek
- Sixteenmile Creek
- Skippack Creek
- Slab Cabin Run
- Slate Run
- Slippery Rock Creek
- Slotznick Run
- Smiley Run
- Snake Creek
- Snare Run
- Snitz Creek
- South Branch Bear Creek
- South Branch Blacklick Creek
- South Branch Codorus Creek
- South Branch Conewago Creek
- South Branch French Creek
- South Branch Glade Run
- South Branch Kinzua Creek
- South Branch Plum Creek
- South Branch Roaring Creek
- South Branch Slippery Rock Creek
- South Branch Tionesta Creek
- South Branch Towanda Creek
- South Branch Tunkhannock Creek
- South Creek
- South Fork Dunkard Fork
- South Fork Little Conemaugh River
- South Fork Tenmile Creek
- South Sandy Creek
- Speers Run
- Spring Brook
- Spring Creek (Bald Eagle Creek)
- Spring Creek (Clarion River)
- Spring Creek (Little Lehigh Creek)
- Spring Creek (Susquehanna River)
- Spring Creek (Swatara Creek)
- Spring Run
- Spruce Creek
- Standing Stone Creek
- Starrucca Creek
- Stevens Run
- Stillwater Creek
- Stony Brook
- Stony Creek (Pennsylvania), Susquehanna River tributary
- Stony Creek (Schuylkill River)
- Stony Fork Creek
- Stonycreek River
- Streets Run
- Sugar Creek (French Creek)
- Sugar Creek (Susquehanna River)
- Sugar Run (Allegheny River)
- Sugar Run Creek
- Sugar Run, Susquehanna River tributary
- Sullivan Run
- Susquehanna River
- Swamp Creek
- Swatara Creek
- Tacony Creek
- Tangascootack Creek
- Temple Creek
- Templeton Fork
- Tenmile Creek
- Texas Creek
- Thompson Creek
- Thompson Run
- Thorn Creek
- Tidioute Creek
- Tioga River
- Tionesta Creek
- Toby Creek (Clarion River)
- Toby Creek (Susquehanna River)
- Tobyhanna Creek
- Tohickon Creek
- Tomhicken Creek
- Toms Creek
- Tonoloway Creek
- Towamencin Creek
- Towanda Creek
- Town Creek
- Treaster Run
- Trindle Spring Run
- Troups Creek
- Trout Run (Bennett Branch Sinnemahoning Creek)
- Trout Run (Erie County, Pennsylvania)
- Tub Run
- Tucquan Creek
- Tulpehocken Creek
- Tunkhannock Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)
- Tunkhannock Creek (Tobyhanna Creek)
- Tunungwant Creek
- Turkey Creek
- Turkey Run
- Turtle Creek
- Tuscarora Creek (Juniata River)
- Tuscarora Creek (Penns Creek)
- Tuscarora Creek (Susquehanna River)
- Twelvemile Creek
- Twentymile Creek
- Two Lick Creek
- Unami Creek
- Upper Little Swatara Creek
- Valley Creek
- Van Auken Creek
- Vernon Run
- Virgin Run
- Wallace Run
- Wallenpaupack Creek
- Wallis Run
- Walnut Creek
- Waltons Run
- Wappasening Creek
- Warrior Run
- Washington Run
- West Branch Antietam Creek
- West Branch Brandywine Creek
- West Branch Clarion River
- West Branch Codorus Creek
- West Branch Conneaut Creek
- West Branch Conococheague Creek
- West Branch Delaware River
- West Branch Fishing Creek
- West Branch French Creek
- West Branch Lackawaxen River
- West Branch Little Neshannock Creek
- West Branch Mahantango Creek
- West Branch Pine Creek
- West Branch Schuylkill River
- West Branch Susquehanna River
- West Branch Tionesta Creek
- West Branch Tunungwant Creek
- West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek
- West Creek (West Branch Schuylkill River)
- West Creek, Sinnemahoning Creek tributary
- West Run
- West West Branch Schuylkill River
- White Bear Creek
- White Clay Creek
- White Deer Creek
- White Deer Hole Creek
- Whiteley Creek
- Wiconisco Creek
- Willoughby Run
- Wills Creek
- Wilson Creek
- Wilson Run
- Wilsons Run
- Wingohocking Creek
- Wissahickon Creek
- Wolf Creek (Northkill Creek)
- Wolf Creek (Pennsylvania), Slippery Rock Creek tributary
- Wolfe Run
- Woodcock Creek
- Wooden Bridge Creek
- Workman Run
- Wyalusing Creek
- Wylie Run
- Wyomissing Creek
- Wysox Creek
- Yellow Breeches Creek
- Yellow Creek (Cool Spring Creek)
- Yellow Creek (Juniata River)
- Yellow Creek (Two Lick Creek)
- Youghiogheny River
- Young Womans Creek
See also
References
- USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Pennsylvania (1974)
- Shaw, Lewis C. (June, 1984). Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams Part II (Water Resources Bulletin No. 16). Prepared in Cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey (1st ed.). Harrisburg, PA: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Resources (no ISBN).