List of rivers in Kentucky (U.S. state).
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. All rivers in Kentucky flow to the Mississippi River, nearly all by virtue of flowing to its major tributary, the Ohio River. Also listed are some important tributaries to the few Kentucky rivers that originate in, or flow through, other states.
- Mississippi River
- Obion Creek
- Mayfield Creek
- Ohio River
Ohio River Drainage Basin - Goose Creek
- Massac Creek
- Tennessee River
- Cumberland River
Cumberland River Drainage Basin - Tradewater River
- Green River
- Salt River
- Beargrass Creek
- Little Kentucky River
- Kentucky River
Kentucky River Drainage Basin - Taylors Creek
- Licking River
Licking River Drainage Basin - Kinniconick Creek
- Tygarts Creek
- Little Sandy River
- Big Sandy River
Alphabetically
- Banklick Creek
- Barren River
- Beargrass Creek
- Beaver Creek (Kentucky)
- Beech Fork of the Salt River
- Betty Troublesome Creek
- Big Sandy River
- Blackberry Creek
- Blood River
- Cassidy Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Chaplin River
- Clarks River
- Clear Creek (Kentucky)
- Clear Fork
- Cruises Creek
- Cumberland River
- Defeated Creek (Knott County, Kentucky)
- Defeated Creek (Letcher County, Kentucky)
- Dix River
- Dreaming Creek
- Dry Creek (Kentucky)
- Drennon Creek
- Eddy Creek
- Elkhorn Creek
- Floyds Fork of the Salt River
- Gasper River
- Green River
- Hickman Creek
- Kentucky River
- Laurel River
- Lawrence Creek (Kentucky)
- Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River
- Licking River
- Little Barren River
- Little Kentucky River
- Little River
- Little Sandy River
- Lynn Camp Creek
- Massac Creek
- Middle Fork Kentucky River
- Mississippi River
- Mistaken Creek
- Mud River
- Nolin River
- North Fork Kentucky River
- Ohio River
- Paint Creek
- Pond River
- Red Bird River
- Red River (eastern Kentucky)
- Red River (western Kentucky)
- Rockcastle River
- Rolling Fork of the Salt River
- Rough River
- Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River
- Salt Lick Creek (Kentucky)
- Salt River
- Sap Branch
- Silver Creek
- Sinking Creek (Breckinridge County, Kentucky)
- Sinking Creek (Jessamine County, Kentucky)
- South Fork Kentucky River
- Squabble Creek
- Tearcoat Creek
- Tennessee River
- Tradewater River
- Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River
- Tygarts Creek
- Wolf River
References
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Kentucky (1974)
