List of rivers of Missouri


This page is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Missouri.

By drainage basin

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

[Mississippi River]

[Arkansas River]

  • Neosho River
  • *Elk River
  • **Buffalo Creek
  • **Indian Creek
  • **Big Sugar Creek
  • **Little Sugar Creek
  • *Spring River
  • **Shoal Creek
  • ***Capps Creek

    White River">White River (Arkansas–Missouri)">White River

  • Cache River
  • Black River
  • *Spring River
  • **Warm Fork Spring River
  • ***Anthony Branch
  • **Eleven Point River
  • *Current River
  • **Sinking Creek
  • **Little Black River
  • **Jacks Fork
  • *Logan Creek
  • **Adair Creek
  • North Fork River
  • *Bennetts Bayou
  • *Bennetts River
  • *Bryant Creek
  • **Brush Creek
  • **Hunter Creek
  • ***Whites Creek
  • **Fox Creek
  • **Rippee Creek
  • **Spring Creek
  • *Clifty Creek
  • Little North Fork White River
  • Beaver Creek
  • *Cowskin Creek
  • **Prairie Creek
  • *Little Beaver Creek
  • James River
  • *Crane Creek
  • *Finley Creek
  • *Pierson Creek
  • *Wilsons Creek
  • **Jordan Creek
  • **Fassnight Creek
  • Kings River
  • *Osage Creek
  • Roaring River

    [Mississippi River] between the White">White River (Arkansas–Missouri)">White and Missouri">Missouri River">Missouri rivers

  • St. Francis River
  • *Little River
  • **Castor River
  • **Whitewater River
  • *Little St. Francis River
  • Headwater Diversion Channel
  • *Whitewater River
  • *Castor River
  • Old River
  • River aux Vases
  • Meramec River
  • *Big River
  • **Terre Bleue Creek
  • ***Andrews Branch
  • *Bourbeuse River
  • **Little Bourbeuse River
  • *Little Meramec River
  • *Huzzah Creek
  • **Courtois Creek
  • ***Abbott Branch
  • **Shoal Creek
  • *Dry Fork
  • River des Peres

    [Missouri River] south of the [Kansas River]

  • Loutre River
  • Quick Creek
  • 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
  • *** Minor Creek
  • *** Claybaugh Creek
  • *Pomme de Terre 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
  • Little Chariton River
  • *East Fork Little Chariton River
  • **Walnut Creek
  • **Silver Creek
  • ***Turner Fork
  • *Middle Fork Little Chariton River
  • Chariton River
  • *Bee Branch
  • *Elm Creek
  • *Mussel Fork
  • *Shoal Creek
  • Grand River
  • *Locust Creek
  • *Medicine Creek
  • *Thompson River
  • **Weldon River
  • ***Little River
  • Crooked River
  • Fishing River
  • Reagan Branch
  • Little Blue River
  • Blue River
  • *Brush Creek
  • *Round Grove Creek

    [Missouri River] north of the [Kansas River]

  • Platte River
  • * Prairie Creek
  • *Little Platte River
  • *One Hundred and Two River
  • **White Cloud Creek
  • *Third Fork Platte River
  • **Little Third Fork Platte River
  • *Castile Creek
  • * Honey Creek
  • Nodaway River
  • * Mill Creek
  • * Arapahoe Creek
  • * Elkhorn Creek
  • * Clear Creek
  • Squaw Creek
  • Tarkio River
  • Rock Creek
  • Nishnabotna River

    [Mississippi River] north of the [Missouri River]

  • Cuivre River
  • Salt River
  • *Spencer River
  • *Black Creek
  • **Hilton Branch
  • South River
  • North River
  • Fabius River
  • *North Fabius River
  • **Middle Fabius River
  • ***Betsy Branch
  • ***Blair Branch
  • ***Hilbert Branch
  • *South Fabius River
  • **Little Fabius River
  • Wyaconda River
  • *Little Wyaconda River
  • Fox River
  • *Little Fox River
  • Des Moines River

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