This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Washington.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin. Respective tributaries are indented under each larger stream's name and are ordered downstream to upstream.
Strait of Georgia / Salish Sea
Bellingham Bay
Puget Sound
Whidbey Basin
- Skagit River
- Stillaguamish River
- Snohomish River
Central Basin
- Boeing Creek
- Pipers Creek
- Lake Washington Ship Canal/Lake Washington
- Duwamish River
- Longfellow Creek
- Black River (historical)
- Cedar River (historical)
- Green River
- White River (historical)
- Soos Creek
- Fauntleroy Creek
- Hylebos Creek
- Wapato Creek
- Puyallup River
- Puget Creek
South Basin
- Chambers Creek
- Sequalitchew Creek
- Nisqually River
- Yelm Creek
- Ohop Creek
- Mashel River
- Little Nisqually River
- Kautz Creek
- Paradise River
- Van Trump Creek
- Indian Creek
- Deschutes River
- Kennedy Creek
- Sherwood Creek
Hood Canal, Admiralty Inlet
- Union River
- Tahuya River
- Skokomish River
- Dewatto River
- Hamma Hamma River
- Duckabush River
- Dosewallips River
- Big Quilcene River
- Little Quilcene River
Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Dungeness River
- Elwha River
- Indian Creek
- Little River
- Lillian River
- Lost River
- Goldie River
- Hayes River
- Lyre River
- East Twin River
- West Twin River
- Pysht River
- Clallam River
- Hoko River
- Sekiu River
- Sail River
Pacific Coast
- Waatch River
- Sooes River
- Ozette River
- Quillayute River
- Dickey River
- Sol Duc River
- Bogachiel River
- Calawah River
- North Fork Calawah River
- Sitkum River
- Calawah River
- Goodman Creek
- Hoh River
- Queets River
- Raft River
- Quinault River
- Moclips River
- Copalis River
Grays Harbor
Willapa Bay
- Cedar River
- North River
- Willapa River
- Bone River
- Niawiakum River
- Palix River
- Canon River
- North Nemah River
- South Nemah River
- Middle Nemah River
- Naselle River
- Bear River
Columbia River
Lower Columbia Basin
- Wallacut River
- Chinook River
- Deep River
- Grays River
- Elochoman River
- Germany Creek
- Coal Creek
- Cowlitz River
- Kalama River
- Lewis River
- Gee Creek
- Lake River
- Washougal River
- Wind River
- Little White Salmon River
- White Salmon River
- Klickitat River
Walla Walla and Snake River Basins
Central Columbian Basin
Lake Chelan to Coulee Dam
- Chelan River (Lake Chelan)
- Methow River
- Twisp River
- Chewuch River
- Lost River
- Okanogan River
- Nespelem River
Upper Columbia Basin
- Sanpoil River
- Spokane River
- Cable Creek
- Little Spokane River
- Deep Creek
- Latah Creek (Hangman Creek)
- Colville River
- Kettle River
- Pend Oreille River (mouth just across Canada–United States border)
- Priest River (itself in Idaho, but Western tributaries in Washington)
Alphabetically
- American River
- Amon Creek
- Ashnola River
- Baker River
- Bear River
- Beckler River
- Big Quilcene River
- Black River (historical)
- Black River
- Boeing Creek
- Bogachiel River
- Bone River
- Bumping River
- Calawah River
- Canyon River
- Cape Labelle Creek
- Carbon River
- Cedar River (Lake Washington)
- Cedar River (Willapa Bay)
- Chaplain Creek
- Chehalis River
- Chelan River
- Chewuch River
- Chilliwack River
- Chinook River
- Chiwaukum Creek
- Chiwawa River
- Chumstick Creek
- Cispus River
- Clallam River
- Cle Elum River
- Clear Creek
- Clearwater River (Queets River)
- Clearwater River (White River)
- Clover Creek
- Coal Creek
- Columbia River
- Colville River
- Coulee Creek
- Couse Creek
- Coweeman River
- Cowlitz River
- Crab Creek
- Deep Creek
- Depot Creek
- Deschutes River
- Dewatto River
- Dickey River
- Dosewallips River
- Duckabush River
- Dungeness River
- Duwamish River
- East Fork Miller River
- East Twin River
- Edwards Creek
- Elk River
- Elwha River
- Entiat River
- Fauntleroy Creek
- Foss River
- Gray Wolf River
- Grays River
- Green River (Duwamish River tributary)
- Green River (Toutle River tributary)
- Greenwater River
- Hamma Hamma River
- Hoh River
- Hoko River
- Humptulips River
- Icicle Creek
- Indian Creek (Elwha River)
- Issaquah Creek
- Juanita Creek
- Kachess River
- Kalama River
- Kelsey Creek
- Kettle River
- Klickitat River
- Lacamas Creek
- Lewis River
- Little Chilliwack River
- Little Pend Oreille River
- Little Quilcene River
- Little River
- Little Spokane River
- Little Wenatchee River
- Little White Salmon River
- Lyon Creek
- Mad River
- Mashel River
- McAleer Creek
- Methow River
- Middle Fork Snoqualmie River
- Miller River
- Muddy River
- Naches River
- Napeequa River
- Naselle River
- Nason Creek
- Newaukum River
- Niawiakum River
- Nisqually River
- Nooksack River
- North Creek
- North Fork Skykomish River
- North Fork Snoqualmie River
- North River
- Okanogan River
- Palouse River
- Paradise River
- Pend Oreille River
- Pilchuck River
- Pratt River
- Puyallup River
- Queets River
- Quillayute River
- Quinault River
- Raging River
- Rapid River
- Rex River
- Rock Creek (Latah Creek)
- Rock Creek (Palouse River)
- Sail River
- Samish River
- Sammamish River
- Satsop River
- Sauk River
- Silesia Creek
- Skagit River
- Skokomish River
- Skookumchuck River
- Skykomish River
- Sloan Creek
- Snahapish River
- Snake River
- Snohomish River
- Snoqualmie River
- Sol Duc River
- South Fork Skykomish River
- South Fork Snoqualmie River
- South Fork Sultan River
- Spokane River
- Stehekin River
- Stillaguamish River
- Stuck River
- Sultan River
- Swamp Creek
- Tahuya River
- Taylor Creek
- Teanaway River
- Thornton Creek
- Tieton River
- Tilton River
- Tolt River
- Touchet River
- Toutle River
- Tucannon River
- Twisp River
- Tye River
- Union River
- Van Trump Creek
- Walla Walla River
- Wallace River
- Washougal River
- Waatch River
- Wells Creek
- Wenatchee River
- West Fork Miller River
- West Twin River
- White River (Puyallup River tributary)
- White River (Wenatchee Lake tributary)
- White Salmon River
- Wilder Creek
- Willapa River
- Wishkah River
- Wynoochee River
- Yakima River
See also
References
- USGS Streamflow Data for Washington
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Washington (1974)