List of rivers of Alabama


This is a list of rivers of the US state of Alabama. Alabama has over 132,000 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.

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.

Gulf Coast (east)

Mobile Bay

  • Bon Secour River
  • Magnolia River
  • Fish River
  • Blakeley River
  • *Bay Minette Creek
  • Apalachee River
  • Conway Creek
  • Mobile River-Tensaw River
  • *Spanish River
  • **Lower Crab Creek
  • **Raft River
  • ***Oak Bayou
  • *Threemile Creek
  • *Chickasaw Creek
  • *Crab Creek
  • *Big Bayou Canot
  • **Bayou Sara
  • ***Gunnison Creek
  • *Big Lizard Creek
  • *Little Lizard Creek
  • *Middle River
  • *Cedar Creek
  • *Alabama River
  • **Majors Creek
  • **Limestone Creek (Alabama River tributary)
  • **Big Flat Creek
  • ***Robinson Creek
  • **Cane Creek
  • **Bear Creek (Alabama River tributary)
  • **Pursley Creek
  • **Beaver Creek
  • ***Goose Creek
  • ***Turkey Creek
  • **Dixon Creek
  • **Pine Barren Creek
  • ***Bear Creek (Pine Barren Creek tributary)
  • ***Sturdivant Creek
  • **Chilatchee Creek
  • ***Sand Creek
  • **Bogue Chitto Creek
  • ***Bear Creek (Bogue Chitto Creek tributary)
  • ***Chaney Creek
  • ***Mud Creek
  • **Cedar Creek
  • ***Mush Creek
  • **Cahaba River
  • ***Oakmulgee Creek
  • ***Schultz Creek
  • ****Hill Creek
  • ***Little Cahaba River (Bibb County, Alabama)
  • ****Mahan Creek
  • ****Shoal Creek
  • ***Shades Creek
  • ***Piney Woods Creek
  • ***Buck Creek
  • ***Patton Creek
  • ***Little Cahaba River (Jefferson County, Alabama)
  • ***Big Black Creek
  • **Soapstone Creek
  • **Mulberry Creek
  • ***Little Mulberry Creek
  • ***Benson Creek
  • **Old Town Creek
  • **Big Swamp Creek
  • ***Rambo Branch
  • **Ivy Creek
  • **Swift Creek
  • **Tallawassee Creek
  • **Pintlala Creek
  • **Catoma Creek
  • **Autauga Creek
  • **Tallapoosa River
  • ***Chubbehatchee Creek
  • ***Line Creek (Alabama)
  • ***Cubahatchee Creek
  • ***Calebee Creek
  • ***Uphapee Creek
  • ***Hillabee Creek
  • ****Enitachopco Creek
  • *****Little Hillabee Creek
  • ******Harbuck Creek
  • ***Emuckfaw Creek
  • ***Chatahospee Creek
  • ***High Pine Creek
  • ***Cornhouse Creek
  • ***Crooked Creek
  • ****Wesobulga Creek
  • ***Little Tallapoosa River
  • ****Wedowee Creek
  • ***Muscadine Creek
  • **Coosa River
  • ***Mortar Creek
  • ****Cottonford Creek
  • ***Callaway Creek
  • ***Weoka Creek
  • ****Little Weoka Creek
  • ***Chestnut Creek
  • ***Hatchet Creek
  • ****Weogufka Creek
  • ****Swamp Creek
  • ****Socapatoy Creek
  • ***Walnut Creek
  • ***Yellow Leaf Creek
  • ***Paint Creek
  • ***Waxahatchee Creek
  • ****Buxahatchee Creek
  • ***Peckerwood Creek
  • ***Yellowleaf Creek
  • ***Tallaseehatchee Creek (Coosa River tributary)
  • ****Shirtee Creek
  • ****Emauhee Creek
  • ***Talladega Creek
  • ***Kelly Creek (Coosa River tributary)
  • ***Choccolocco Creek
  • ****Cheaha Creek
  • *****Kelly Creek (Cheaha Creek tributary)
  • ***Cane Creek
  • ***Ohatchee Creek
  • ****Tallaseehatchee Creek (Ohatchee Creek tributary)
  • ***Big Canoe Creek
  • ***Big Wills Creek
  • ***Terrapin Creek
  • ****Hurricane Creek
  • ****Nances Creek
  • ***Little River
  • ****East Fork Little River
  • ****West Fork Little River
  • ***Chattooga River
  • ****Mills Creek
  • *Tombigbee River
  • **West River
  • ***Bates Creek
  • ***Bilbo Creek
  • **Bassetts Creek
  • **Bassett Creek
  • **Jackson Creek
  • **Santa Bogue Creek
  • ***Dry Creek
  • **Turkey Creek
  • **Okatuppa Creek
  • ***Souwilpa Creek
  • ***Puss Cuss Creek
  • **Big Tallawampa Creek
  • ***Little Tallawampa Creek
  • **Bashi Creek
  • **Wahalak Creek
  • **Sucarbowa Creek
  • **Horse Creek
  • **Tuckabum Creek
  • ***Yantley Creek
  • ***Bogue Chitto
  • **Beaver Creek
  • **Kinterbish Creek
  • **Chickasaw Bogue
  • ***Dry Creek
  • **Cotohaga Creek
  • **Sucarnoochee River
  • ***Alamuchee Creek
  • **Spring Creek
  • ***Lost Creek
  • **Hall Creek
  • **Black Warrior River
  • ***Big Prairie Creek
  • ***Big Brush Creek
  • ***Minter Creek
  • ***Fivemile Creek
  • ***Grant Creek
  • ***Big Sandy Creek
  • ***North River
  • ***Hurricane Creek
  • ***Davis Creek
  • ***Blue Creek
  • ***Big Yellow Creek
  • ***Valley Creek
  • ****Mud Creek
  • ***Locust Fork
  • ****Short Creek
  • ****Village Creek
  • ****Fivemile Creek
  • ****Turkey Creek
  • ****Gurley Creek
  • ****Little Warrior River
  • *****Blackburn Fork Little Warrior River
  • *****Calvert Prong Little Warrior River
  • ****Slab Creek
  • ***Mulberry Fork
  • ****Lost Creek
  • *****Wolf Creek
  • ******Indian Creek
  • *****Cane Creek (Lost Creek tributary)
  • *****Mill Creek
  • ****Cane Creek (Mulberry Fork)
  • ****Blackwater Creek
  • ****Sipsey Fork
  • *****Ryan Creek
  • *****Rock Creek
  • ******Crooked Creek
  • ******Blevens Creek
  • *****Clear Creek
  • ******Right Fork Clear Creek
  • *****Brushy Creek
  • ******Capsey Creek
  • ******Rush Creek
  • *****Caney Creek
  • *****Borden Creek
  • ****Broglen River
  • *****Eightmile Creek
  • ****Duck River
  • **Brush Creek
  • **Trussells Creek
  • **Noxubee River
  • ***Bodka Creek
  • ***Woodward Creek
  • **Sipsey River
  • ***New River
  • ***Little New River
  • **Lubbub Creek
  • ***Bear Creek (Lubbub Creek tributary)
  • **Big Creek
  • **Luxapallila Creek
  • ***Yellow Creek
  • **Buttahatchee River
  • ***Sipsey Creek
  • **Bull Mountain Creek
  • ***Gum Creek
  • Dog River
  • *Perch Creek
  • *Alligator Bayou
  • *Rabbit Creek
  • **Rattlesnake Bayou
  • *Halls Mill Creek
  • *Moore Creek
  • **Bolton Branch
  • ***Eslava Creek
  • *Robinson Bayou
  • Middle Fork Deer River
  • *North Fork Deer River
  • South Fork Deer River
  • Fowl River
  • *East Fowl River
  • *West Fowl River
  • *Dykes Creek

Gulf Coast (west)

  • Heron Bayou
  • Bayou Sullivan
  • Bayou Coden
  • Bayou la Batre
  • Little River
  • Pascagoula River
  • *Escatawpa River
  • **Bennett Creek
  • **Little Creek
  • ***Pond Creek

Mississippi River

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