List of rivers of Alabama
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This is a list of rivers in the US state of Alabama. Alabama has over 77,000 miles of rivers and streams with more freshwater biodiversity than any other US state. Alabama's rivers are among the most biologically diverse waterways in the world. 38% of North America's fish species, 43% of its freshwater gill-breathing snails, 51% of its freshwater turtle species, and 60% of its freshwater mussel species are native to Alabama's rivers.
Contents
List by drainage basin
All rivers in Alabama eventually flow into the Gulf of Mexico. This list arranges rivers into drainage basin, which are ordered by the location of the mouth of the main stem from east to west. Tributaries are ordered from mouth to source (subject to being within the borders of Alabama).
Gulf Coast (east)
- Apalachicola River (FL)
- Choctawhatchee River
- Yellow River
- Shoal River (FL)
- Five Runs Creek
- Lightwood Knot Creek
- Blackwater River (Pensacola Bay)
- Escambia River (FL)
- Perdido River
- Blackwater River (Perdido Bay)
- Styx River
- Soldier Creek
- Palmetto Creek
- Hammock Creek
- Wolf Creek
- Portage Creek
Mobile Bay
- Bon Secour River
- Magnolia River
- Fish River
- Blakeley River
- Apalachee River
- Conway Creek
- Mobile River-Tensaw River
- Spanish River
- Threemile Creek
- Chickasaw Creek
- Crab Creek
- Big Bayou Canot
- Big Lizard Creek
- Little Lizard Creek
- Middle River
- Cedar Creek
- Alabama River
- Majors Creek
- Limestone Creek (Alabama River)
- Big Flat Creek
- Cane Creek
- Bear Creek (Alabama River)
- Pursley Creek
- Beaver Creek
- Dixon Creek
- Pine Barren Creek
- Chilatchee Creek
- Bogue Chitto Creek
- Cedar Creek
- Cahaba River
- Soapstone Creek
- Mulberry Creek
- Old Town Creek
- Big Swamp Creek
- Ivy Creek
- Swift Creek
- Tallawassee Creek
- Pintlala Creek
- Catoma Creek
- Autauga Creek
- Tallapoosa River
- Coosa River
- Mortar Creek
- Callaway Creek
- Weoka Creek
- Chestnut Creek
- Hatchet Creek
- Walnut Creek
- Yellow Leaf Creek
- Paint Creek
- Waxahatchee Creek
- Peckerwood Creek
- Yellowleaf Creek
- Tallaseehatchee Creek (Coosa River)
- Talladega Creek
- Kelly Creek (Coosa River)
- Choccolocco Creek
- Cane Creek
- Ohatchee Creek
- Big Canoe Creek
- Big Wills Creek
- Terrapin Creek
- Little River
- Chattooga River
- Tombigbee River
- West River
- Bassetts Creek (west side Tombigbee River)
- Bassett Creek (east side Tombigbee River)
- Jackson Creek
- Santa Bogue Creek
- Turkey Creek
- Okatuppa Creek
- Big Tallawampa Creek
- Bashi Creek
- Wahalak Creek
- Sucarbowa Creek
- Horse Creek
- Tuckabum Creek
- Beaver Creek
- Kinterbish Creek
- Chickasaw Bogue
- Cotohaga Creek
- Sucarnoochee River
- Spring Creek
- Hall Creek
- Black Warrior River
- Brush Creek
- Trussells Creek
- Noxubee River
- Sipsey River
- Lubbub Creek
- Big Creek
- Luxapallila Creek
- Buttahatchee River
- Bull Mountain Creek
- Dog River
- Middle Fork Deer River
- South Fork Deer River
- Fowl River
Gulf Coast (west)
Pascagoula Drainage Basin
Tennessee Drainage Basin
- Pascagoula River (MS)
Mississippi River
- Mississippi River (LA,MS,TN,KY)
- Ohio River (KY)
- Tennessee River
- Bear Creek
- Second Creek
- Mulberry Creek
- Cane Creek
- Little Bear Creek
- Spring Creek
- Cypress Creek
- Shoal Creek
- Town Creek
- Bluewater Creek
- Big Nance Creek
- Second Creek
- Elk River
- Flint Creek
- Limestone Creek
- Cotaco Creek
- Indian Creek
- Flint River
- Paint Rock River
- Big Spring Creek
- Short Creek
- Town Creek
- South Sauty Creek
- North Sauty Creek
- Mud Creek
- Coon Creek
- Crow Creek
- Widows Creek
- Long Island Creek
- Jones Creek
- Lookout Creek
- Tennessee River
- Ohio River (KY)
Alphabetically
- Abbie Creek
- Alabama River
- Alamuchee Creek
- Alligator Bayou
- Anderson Creek
- Apalachee River
- Autauga Creek
- Barbour Creek
- Bashi Creek
- Bassett Creek (east side Tombigbee River)
- Bassetts Creek (west side Tombigbee River)
- Bates Creek
- Bay Minette Creek
- Bayou Coden
- Bayou la Batre
- Bayou Sara
- Bayou Sullivan
- Bear Creek (Alabama River)
- Bear Creek (Bogue Chitto Creek)
- Bear Creek (Lubbub Creek)
- Bear Creek (Pine Barren Creek)
- Bear Creek (Tennessee River)
- Beaver Creek (Alabama River)
- Beaver Creek (Tombigbee River)
- Bennett Creek
- Benson Creek
- Big Bayou Canot
- Big Black Creek
- Big Brush Creek
- Big Canoe Creek
- Big Coldwater Creek
- Big Coon Creek
- Big Creek
- Big Escambia Creek
- Big Flat Creek
- Big Juniper Creek
- Big Lizard Creek
- Big Nance Creek
- Big Prairie Creek
- Big Sandy Creek
- Big Spring Creek
- Big Swamp Creek
- Big Tallawampa Creek
- Big Wills Creek
- Big Yellow Creek
- Bilbo Creek
- Black Warrior River
- Blackburn Fork Little Warrior River
- Blackwater Creek
- Blackwater River (Pensacola Bay)
- Blackwater River (Perdido Bay)
- Blakeley River
- Blevens Creek
- Blue Creek
- Blue Spring Creek
- Bluewater Creek
- Bodka Creek
- Bogue Chitto (Tuckabum Creek)
- Bogue Chitto Creek, Alabama River tributary
- Bolton Branch
- Bon Secour River
- Borden Creek
- Brier Fork Flint River
- Broglan Branch
- Broglen River
- Brush Creek
- Brushy Creek
- Buck Creek
- Bull Mountain Creek
- Burnt Corn Creek
- Butler Creek
- Buttahatchee River
- Buxahatchee Creek
- Buzzard Roost Creek
- Cahaba River
- Calebee Creek
- Callaway Creek
- Calvert Prong Little Warrior River
- Cane Creek (Alabama River)
- Cane Creek (Coosa River)
- Cane Creek (Lost Creek)
- Cane Creek (Mulberry Fork)
- Cane Creek (Tennessee River)
- Caney Creek
- Capsey Creek
- Catoma Creek
- Cedar Creek (Alabama River)
- Cedar Creek (Bear Creek)
- Cedar Creek (Chattahoochee River)
- Cedar Creek (Mobile River)
- Chaney Creek
- Chatahospee Creek
- Chattahoochee River
- Chattooga River
- Cheaha Creek
- Cheneyhatchee Creek
- Chestnut Creek
- Chewalla Creek
- Chickasaw Bogue
- Chickasaw Creek
- Chilatchee Creek
- Choccolocco Creek
- Choctawhatchee River
- Chubbehatchee Creek
- Claybank Creek
- Clear Creek
- Clear Fork (Big Nance Creek)
- Conecuh River
- Conway Creek
- Coon Creek
- Coosa River
- Cornhouse Creek
- Cotaco Creek
- Cotohaga Creek
- Cottonford Creek
- Cowikee Creek
- Cowpen Creek
- Crab Creek
- Crooked Creek (Rock Creek)
- Crooked Creek (Tallapoosa River)
- Crow Creek
- Cubahatchee Creek
- Cypress Creek
- Davis Creek
- Dixon Creek
- Dog River
- Double Bridges Creek
- Dry Creek (Chickasaw Bogue)
- Dry Creek (Santa Bogue Creek)
- Duck River
- Dykes Creek
- East Fork Choctawhatchee River
- East Fork Little River
- East Fowl River
- Eightmile Creek (Broglen River)
- Eightmile Creek (Flat Creek)
- Elk River
- Emauhee Creek
- Emuckfaw Creek
- Enitachopco Creek
- Escambia River
- Escatawpa River
- Eslava Creek
- Estill Fork
- Fish River
- Five Runs Creek
- Fivemile Creek (Black Warrior River)
- Fivemile Creek (Locust Fork)
- Flat Creek
- Flint Creek
- Flint River
- Fowl River
- Goose Creek
- Grant Creek
- Gum Creek
- Gunnison Creek
- Gurley Creek
- Halawakee Creek
- Hall Creek
- Halls Mill Creek
- Hammock Creek
- Harbuck Creek
- Hatchechubbee Creek
- Hatchet Creek
- Heron Bayou
- High Pine Creek
- Hill Creek
- Hillabahatchee Creek
- Hillabee Creek
- Hollinger Creek
- Holmes Creek
- Horse Creek
- Huntsville Spring Branch
- Hurricane Creek (Black Warrior River)
- Hurricane Creek (Flint River)
- Hurricane Creek (Paint Rock River)
- Hurricane Creek (Terrapin Creek)
- Indian Creek (Tennessee River)
- Indian Creek (Wolf Creek)
- Ivy Creek
- Jackson Creek
- Jones Creek
- Judy Creek
- Kelly Creek (Cheaha Creek)
- Kelly Creek (Coosa River)
- Kinterbish Creek
- Kirby Creek
- Lightwood Knot Creek
- Limestone Creek
- Lindsey Creek
- Line Creek
- Little Bear Creek (Bear Creek)
- Little Bear Creek (Tennessee River)
- Little Cahaba River (Bibb County, Alabama)
- Little Cahaba River (Jefferson County, Alabama)
- Little Choctawhatchee River
- Little Creek
- Little Cypress Creek
- Little Hillabee Creek
- Little Lizard Creek
- Little Mulberry Creek
- Little New River
- Little River, Coosa River tributary
- Little River (Portersville Bay)
- Little Tallapoosa River
- Little Tallawampa Creek
- Little Uchee Creek
- Little Warrior River
- Little Weoka Creek
- Locust Fork
- Long Island Creek
- Lookout Creek
- Lost Creek (Mulberry Fork)
- Lost Creek (Spring Creek)
- Lower Crab Creek
- Lubbub Creek
- Luxapallila Creek
- Magnolia River
- Mahan Creek
- Majors Creek
- Mayo Mill Creek
- Middle Fork Cowikee Creek
- Middle Fork Deer River
- Middle River
- Miflin Creek
- Mill Creek
- Mills Creek
- Minter Creek
- Mobile River
- Moore Creek
- Mortar Creek
- Mountain Fork
- Mud Creek
- Mud Creek (Tennessee River)
- Mud Creek (Town Creek)
- Mud Creek (Valley Creek)
- Muddy Fork
- Mulberry Creek (Alabama River)
- Mulberry Creek (Tennessee River)
- Mulberry Fork
- Murder Creek
- Muscadine Creek
- Mush Creek
- Nances Creek
- New River
- No Business Creek
- North Fork Cowikee Creek
- North Fork Deer River
- North River
- North Sauty Creek
- Noxubee River
- Oak Bayou
- Oakmulgee Creek
- Ohatchee Creek
- Okatuppa Creek
- Old Town Creek
- Omusee Creek
- Osanippa Creek
- Oseligee Creek
- Paint Creek
- Paint Rock River
- Palmetto Creek
- Patsaliga Creek
- Patton Creek
- Pea River
- Peckerwood Creek
- Perch Creek
- Perdido River
- Pine Barren Creek
- Piney Creek
- Piney Woods Creek
- Pintlala Creek
- Pond Creek (Little Creek)
- Pond Creek (Shoal River)
- Portage Creek
- Pursley Creek
- Puss Cuss Creek
- Rabbit Creek
- Raft River
- Rambo Branch
- Rattlesnake Bayou
- Right Fork Clear Creek
- Robinson Bayou
- Robinson Creek
- Rock Creek
- Rush Creek
- Ryan Creek
- Sand Creek
- Sandy Creek (Abbie Creek)
- Sandy Creek (Wolf Creek)
- Santa Bogue Creek
- Scarham Creek
- Schultz Creek
- Second Creek (Pickwick Lake)
- Second Creek (Wheeler Lake)
- Sepulga River
- Shades Creek
- Shirtee Creek
- Shoal Creek (Little Cahaba River)
- Shoal Creek (Tennessee River)
- Short Creek (Locust Fork)
- Short Creek (Tennessee River)
- Silas Creek
- Sipsey Creek
- Sipsey River
- Sipsey Fork
- Slab Creek
- Soapstone Creek
- Socapatoy Creek
- Soldier Creek
- South Fork Cowikee Creek
- South Fork Deer River
- South Sauty Creek
- Souwilpa Creek
- Spanish River
- Spring Creek (Tennessee River)
- Spring Creek (Tombigbee River)
- Sturdivant Creek
- Styx River
- Sucarbowa Creek
- Sucarnoochee River
- Sugar Creek
- Swamp Creek
- Sweetwater Creek
- Swift Creek
- Talladega Creek
- Tallapoosa River
- Tallaseehatchee Creek (Coosa River)
- Tallaseehatchee Creek (Ohatchee Creek)
- Tallawassee Creek
- Tennessee River
- Tensaw River
- Terrapin Creek
- Threemile Creek
- Tombigbee River
- Town Creek (Cotaco Creek)
- Town Creek (Guntersville Lake)
- Town Creek (Wilson Lake)
- Trussells Creek
- Tuckabum Creek
- Turkey Creek (Beaver Creek)
- Turkey Creek (Locust Fork)
- Turkey Creek (Tombigbee River)
- Uchee Creek
- Uphapee Creek
- Valley Creek
- Village Creek
- Wacoochee Creek
- Wahalak Creek
- Walnut Creek
- Waxahatchee Creek
- Wedowee Creek
- Wehadkee Creek
- Weogufka Creek
- Weoka Creek
- Wesobulga Creek
- West Flint Creek
- West Fork Choctawhatchee River
- West Fork Little River
- West Fowl River
- West River
- Whitewater Creek
- Wrights Creek
- Widows Creek
- Wolf Creek (Lost Creek)
- Wolf Creek (Perdido Bay)
- Woodward Creek
- Yantley Creek
- Yellow Creek
- Yellow Leaf Creek
- Yellow River
- Yellowleaf Creek
See also
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References
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Alabama (1974)
