List of rivers of Missouri

List of rivers in Missouri (U.S. state).

Contents 1 By Drainage Basin 1.1 Mississippi River 1.1.1 Arkansas River 1.1.2 White River 1.1.3 Mississippi River between the White and Missouri rivers 1.1.4 Missouri River 1.1.5 Mississippi River north of the Missouri River 2 Alphabetically 3 Notes 4 External links 5 References

By Drainage Basin

This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.

Mississippi River

Arkansas River

• Mississippi River
  • Arkansas River (AR,OK)
    • Neosho River (OK)
      • Elk River
        • Indian Creek
        • Big Sugar Creek
        • Little Sugar Creek
      • Spring River
        • Shoal Creek
          • Capps Creek

White River

• Mississippi River
  • White River
    • Cache River
    • Black River
      • Spring River
        • Eleven Point River
      • Current River
        • Little Black River
        • Jacks Fork
    • North Fork River
      • Bennetts River
      • Bryant Creek
    • Little North Fork White River
    • Beaver Creek
    • James River
      • Crane Creek
      • Wilsons Creek
        • Jordan Creek
        • Fassnight Creek
    • Kings River
    • Roaring River

Mississippi River between the White and Missouri rivers

• Mississippi River
  • St. Francis River
    • Little River
      • Castor River ^[1]
      • Whitewater River ^[1]
    • Little St. Francis River
  • Headwater Diversion Channel
    • Whitewater River ^[1]
    • Castor River ^[1]
  • Old River
  • River aux Vases
  • Meramec River
    • Big River
    • Bourbeuse River
      • Little Bourbeuse River
    • Little Meramec River
    • Huzzah Creek
      • Courtois Creek
    • Dry Fork
  • River des Peres

Missouri River

• Mississippi River
  • Missouri River
    • Loutre River
    • Gasconade River
      • Big Piney River
      • Roubidoux Creek
      • Osage Fork Gasconade River
    • Auxvasse Creek
    • Middle River
    • Osage River
      • Maries River
        • Little Maries River
      • Tavern Creek
      • Grandglaize Creek
        • Wet Glaize Creek
        • Dry Auglaize Creek
      • Niangua River
        • Little Niangua River
      • South Grand River
        • Big Creek
      • Pomme de Terre River
        • Little Pomme de Terre River
      • Sac River
        • Little Sac River
          • North Dry Sac River
          • South Dry Sac River
      • Little Osage River
        • Marmaton River
          • Green River
      • Marais des Cygnes River
    • Moreau River
    • Lamine River
      • Blackwater River (55 miles)
    • Little Chariton River
    • Chariton River
    • Grand River
      • Locust Creek
      • Medicine Creek
      • Thompson River
        • Weldon River
          • Little River
    • Crooked River
    • Fishing River
    • Little Blue River
    • Blue River
      • Brush Creek
    • Platte River
      • Little Platte River
      • One Hundred and Two River
    • Nodaway River
    • Squaw Creek
    • Tarkio River
    • Nishnabotna River

Mississippi River north of the Missouri River

• Mississippi River
  • Cuivre River
  • Salt River
  • South River
  • North River
  • Fabius River
    • North Fabius River
      • Middle Fabius River
    • South Fabius River
      • Little Fabius River
  • Wyaconda River
    • Little Wyaconda River
  • Fox River
    • Little Fox River
  • Des Moines River

Alphabetically

• Baker Creek
• Bennetts River
• Big Piney River
• Big River (142 miles)
• Big Sugar Creek
• Black River (300 miles)
• Blackwater River (55 miles)
• Blue River
• Bourbeuse River (147 miles)
• Brush Creek
• Cache River (213 miles)
• Capps Creek
• Castor River
• Chariton River (280 miles)
• Courtois Creek
• Crane Creek
• Crooked River (60 miles)
• Cuivre River
• Current River (225 miles)
• Des Moines River (525 miles)
• Eleven Point River
• Elk River (80 miles)
• Fabius River (230 miles)
• Fishing River
• Fox River
• Gasconade River (265 miles)
• Grand River (226 miles)
• Grandglaize Creek
• Green River
• Huzzah Creek
• Jacks Fork
• James River
• Kings River
• Lamine River (70 miles)
• 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)
• Little Osage River
• Little Platte River
• Little Pomme de Terre River
• Little River (Iowa–Missouri), tributary of Weldon River
• Little River (St. Francis River)
• Little Sac River
• Little St. Francis River
• Little Sugar Creek
• Little Wyaconda River
• Locust Creek
• Loutre River
• Marais des Cygnes River (140 miles)
• Maries River
• Marmaton River
• Meramec River
• Middle River
• Missouri River
• Mississippi River
• Moreau River
• Niangua River
• Nishnabotna River
• Nodaway River
• North Dry Sac River
• North Fork River
• North River
• One Hundred and Two River
• Old River
• Osage River
• Platte River
• Pomme de Terre River (113 miles)
• River des Peres
• Roaring River
• Roubidoux Creek
• Sac River (107 miles)
• St. Francis River (470 miles)
• Salt River
• Shoal Creek
• South Grand River
• South River
• Spring River (Arkansas), of Missouri and Arkansas (57 mile)
• Spring River (Missouri), of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma
• Squaw Creek
• Tarkio River
• Thompson River
• Weldon River
• White River (722 miles)
• Whitewater River
• Wilsons Creek
• Wyaconda River

Notes

1. ^ ^{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.[1]

External links

• Missouri's Watersheds
• Missouri Streamflow Data from the USGS

References

• USGS Geographic Names Information Service
• USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Missouri (1974)

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