List of rivers of Pennsylvania

This is a list of streams and rivers in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

By drainage basin

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

Delaware Bay

The Delaware River drainage basin

The Schuylkill River drainage basin

The Lehigh River drainage basin

The Lehigh River in Bethlehem

The Schuylkill River in Philadelphia

Delaware River
- Christina River
  - Brandywine Creek
  - White Clay Creek
- Naamans Creek
- Marcus Hook Creek
- Stoney Creek
- Chester Creek
  - Baldwin Run
  - Rocky Run
  - Goose Creek
  - East Branch Chester Creek
  - West Branch Chester Creek
    - Webb Creek
- Ridley Creek
  - Vernon Run
  - Spring Run
  - Dismal Run
  - Hunters Run
- Crum Creek
  - Little Crum Creek
  - Stony Creek
  - Trout Run
  - West Crum Creek
- Darby Creek
  - Stoney Creek
  - Muckinipattis Creek
  - Hermesprota Creek
  - Bow Creek (Tidal stream, flowed into what once was the back channel of Hog Island. Obliterated due to the expansion of I 95.)
  - Cobbs Creek
    - Naylors Run
    - Indian Creek
  - Ithan Creek
    - Meadowbrook Run
  - Little Darby Creek
- Schuylkill River
  - Shed Brook (In Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park.)
  - Mingo Creek (Tidal stream, formerly flowed into Eastwick, Philadelphia. Now converted to a surge basin.)
  - Mill Creek (Philadelphia)
  - Wissahickon Creek
    - Paper Mill Run
    - Cresheim Creek
    - Sandy Run
  - Mill Creek (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania)
  - Plymouth Creek
  - Gulph Creek
  - Stony Creek
  - Valley Creek
  - Trout Creek
  - Perkiomen Creek
    - Skippack Creek
      - Towamencin Creek
    - East Branch Perkiomen Creek
      - Pleasant Spring Creek
    - Swamp Creek
      - Scioto Creek
    - Unami Creek
      - Ridge Valley Creek
    - Macoby Creek
    - West Branch Perkiomen Creek
    - Hosensack Creek
  - Pickering Creek
  - French Creek
    - Scotts Run
  - Mingo Creek (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania)
  - Pigeon Creek
  - Manatawny Creek
    - Ironstone Creek
    - Little Manatawny Creek
    - Bieber Creek
    - Pine Creek
  - Monocacy Creek
  - Hay Creek
  - Antietam Creek
  - Allegheny Creek
  - Angelica Creek
  - Wyomissing Creek
  - Tulpehocken Creek
    - Cacoosing Creek
    - Plum Creek
    - Northkill Creek
      - Little Northkill Creek
      - Wolf Creek
    - Spring Creek
    - Mill Creek
  - Maiden Creek
    - Willow Creek
    - Moselem Creek
    - Sacony Creek
      - Mill Creek
    - Stony Run
    - Kistler Creek
    - Ontelaunee Creek
  - Irish Creek
  - Mill Creek
  - Little Schuylkill River
    - Indian Run
    - Panther Creek
    - Locust Creek
    - Pine Creek
  - Pine Creek
  - West Branch Schuylkill River
    - West West Branch Schuylkill River
      - West Creek
  - Norwegian Creek
  - Mill Creek (Port Carbon, Pennsylvania)
  - Silver Creek
- Hollander's Creek (in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park)
- Dock Creek
- Cohoquinoque Creek
- Cohocksink Creek
- Gunner's Run (obliterated to sewer)
- Frankford Creek
  - Little Tacony Creek (obliterated to sewer)
  - Tacony Creek
  - Wingohocking Creek
- Wissinoming Creek (obliterated to sewer)
- Pennypack Creek
- Poquessing Creek
  - Byberry Creek
  - Bloody Run
- Neshaminy Creek
  - Mill Creek
    - Pine Run
    - Ironworks Creek
  - Newtown Creek
  - Mill Creek
  - Little Neshaminy Creek
    - Park Creek
  - Cooks Run
  - Mill Creek
  - North Branch Neshaminy Creek
    - Pine Run
  - West Branch Neshaminy Creek
    - Reading Creek
- Mill Creek
  - Queen Anne Creek
  - Black Ditch Creek
  - Adams Hollow Creek
- Martins Creek
- Scotts Creek
- Biles Creek
- Buck Creek
  - Brock Creek
- Dyers Creek
- Houghs Creek
- Jericho Creek
- Pidcock Creek
  - Curls Run
- Dark Hollow Run
- Aquetong Creek
- Rabbit Run
- Cuttalosa Creek
- Paunnacussing Creek
- Hickory Creek
- Tohickon Creek
  - Geddes Run
  - Cabin Run
  - Deep Run
  - Wolf Run
  - Deer Run
  - Mink Run
  - Haycock Creek
  - Threemile Run
  - Dimple Creek
  - Dry Branch Creek
  - Morgan Creek
  - Beaver Run
    - Licking Run
- Smithtown Creek
- Tinicum Creek
  - Beaver Creek
  - Rapp Creek
- Swamp Creek
- Falls Creek
- Gallows Run
- Rodges Run
- Cooks Creek
  - Hollow Run
- Lehigh River
  - Saucon Creek
    - East Branch Saucon Creek
    - Laurel Run
  - Monocacy Creek
    - East Branch Monocacy Creek
  - Little Lehigh Creek
  - Catasauqua Creek
  - Coplay Creek
  - Hokendauqua Creek
    - Indian Creek
  - Trout Creek
  - Aquashicola Creek
    - Buckwha Creek
  - Lizard Creek
  - Pohopoco Creek
  - Mahoning Creek
  - Mauch Chunk Creek / White Bear Creek
  - Nesquehoning Creek
    - Jeans Run
  - Black Creek
  - Mud Run
  - Bear Creek
  - Tobyhanna Creek
    - Tunkhannock Creek
      - South Branch Tunkhannock Creek
- Bushkill Creek
  - Little Bushkill Creek
- Martins Creek
- Cherry Creek
- Brodhead Creek
  - Marshalls Creek
  - McMichael Creek
    - Pocono Creek
    - Appenzell Creek
  - Paradise Creek
    - Swiftwater Creek
  - Stony Run
  - Buck Hill Creek
  - Leavitt Branch
  - Middle Branch Brodhead Creek
- Big Bushkill Creek
  - Little Bush Kill
  - Saw Creek
  - Rock Hill Creek
- Raymondskill Creek
  - Dwarf Kill
- Dingmans Creek
- Sawkill Creek
- Shohola Creek
- Lackawaxen River
  - Blooming Grove Creek
  - Wallenpaupack Creek
    - West Branch Wallenpaupack Creek
    - East Branch Wallenpaupack Creek
      - Bridge Creek
  - Middle Creek
  - Carley Brook
  - Dyberry Creek
    - West Branch Dyberry Creek
  - Van Auken Creek
  - West Branch Lackawaxen River
    - Johnson Creek
- Calkins Creek
- Equinunk Creek
- West Branch Delaware River
  - Shehawken Creek

Chesapeake Bay

Elk River (MD)
- Big Elk Creek
- Little Elk Creek
North East River (MD)
- North East Creek
Gunpowder River

Susquehanna River

The Susquehanna River drainage basin

Susquehanna River
- Deer Creek
- Octoraro Creek
  - West Branch Octoraro Creek
    - Stewart Run
  - East Branch Octoraro Creek
    - Muddy Run
- Conowingo Creek
- Fishing Creek (Lancaster County)
- Muddy Creek (Susquehanna River tributary)
  - North Branch Muddy Creek
  - South Branch Muddy Creek
- Tucquan Creek
- Otter Creek
- Pequea Creek
  - Big Beaver Creek
  - Little Beaver Creek
- Conestoga River
  - Little Conestoga Creek
  - Mill Creek
  - Lititz Run
  - Cocalico Creek
  - Muddy Creek (Conestoga River tributary)
    - Little Muddy Creek
- Fishing Creek (York County)
- Cabin Creek
- Kreutz Creek
- Chiques Creek (known as Chickies Creek until 2002)
  - Donegal Creek
  - Little Chiques Creek
- Codorus Creek
  - South Branch Codorus Creek
    - East Branch Codorus Creek
    - Centerville Creek
  - West Branch Codorus Creek
    - Oil Creek
- Conoy Creek
- Black Gut
- Conewago Creek (west) (in Adams and York counties)
  - Little Conewago Creek (west)
  - Bennett Run
  - Beaver Creek (York County)
  - Beaver Creek (Adams County)
  - Bermudian Creek
  - South Branch Conewago Creek
  - Opossum Creek
- Conewago Creek (east) (in Lebanon, Dauphin, and Lancaster counties)
  - Lynch Run
  - Brills Run
  - Hoffer Creek
  - Little Conewago Creek (east)
- Fishing Creek (Newberry Township)
- Swatara Creek
  - Iron Run
  - Beaver Creek
  - Spring Creek
  - Manada Creek
  - Bow Creek
  - Quittapahilla Creek
    - Snitz Creek
    - Brandywine Creek (Quittapahilla Creek tributary)
  - Indiantown Run
  - Little Swatara Creek
    - Elizabeth Run
    - Crosskill Creek
  - Mill Creek
  - Lower Little Swatara Creek
  - Upper Little Swatara Creek
  - Good Spring Creek
- Yellow Breeches Creek
  - Stony Run
  - Mountain Creek
- Spring Creek
  - Slotznick Run
- Paxton Creek
  - Asylum Run
  - Black Run
- Conodoguinet Creek
  - Hogestown Run
  - LeTort Spring Run
  - Big Spring Creek
  - Doubling Gap Creek
  - Middle Spring Creek
  - Muddy Run (Conodoguinet Creek tributary)
    - Rowe Run
    - Lehman Run
  - Trout Run (Conodoguinet Creek tributary)
- Fishing Creek (east bank Susquehanna River tributary)
- Fishing Creek (Perry County) (west bank Susquehanna River tributary)
- Stony Creek
  - Rattling Run
  - Rausch Creek
- Clark Creek
- Shermans Creek
  - Laurel Run
  - Bixler's Run
- Little Juniata Creek

The Juniata River drainage basin

The Lackawanna and Lackawaxen drainage basins

Potomac River

The Potomac River drainage basin

Potomac River (MD)
- Monocacy River (MD)
- Antietam Creek
- Conococheague Creek
- Little Conococheague Creek
- Licking Creek
- Tonoloway Creek
  - Little Tonoloway Creek
- Sideling Hill Creek
- Town Creek
- North Branch Potomac River (MD)
  - Evitts Creek
  - Wills Creek

Gulf of Mexico

(via the Mississippi River)

Ohio River

The Ohio River drainage basin

Ohio River
- Fish Creek
  - Pennsylvania Fork Fish Creek
- Flaugherty Run
  - Spring Run
- Wheeling Creek
  - Enlow Fork
    - Robinson Fork
    - Templeton Fork
  - Dunkard Fork
    - North Fork Dunkard Fork
    - South Fork Dunkard Fork
- Buffalo Creek
- Cross Creek (Ohio River tributary)
- Harmon Creek
  - Paris Run
  - Ward Run
- Kings Creek
  - North Fork Kings Creek
  - Aunt Clara Fork
    - Lawrence Run
- Little Beaver Creek
  - North Fork Little Beaver Creek
- Raccoon Creek
- Beaver River
  - McKinley Run
  - Hamilton Run
  - Brady Run
  - Walnut Bottom Run
  - Bennett Run
  - Wallace Run
  - Thompson Run
  - Clarks Run
  - Stockman Run
  - Connoquenessing Creek
  - Wampum Run
  - Snake Run
  - Eckles Run
  - Jenkins Run
  - Edwards Run
  - McKee Run
  - Mahoning River
    - Hickory Run
  - Shenango River
- Chartiers Creek
  - Whiskey Run
  - Campbells Run
  - Robinson Run
  - Scrubgrass Run
  - Painters Run
  - McLaughlin Run
  - Thoms Run
  - Millers Run
  - Coal Run
  - Brush Run
  - McPherson Creek
  - Little Chartiers Creek
  - Brush Run
  - Chartiers Run
    - Plum Run
    - Westland Run
  - Georges Run
  - Catfish Creek

Allegheny River

The Allegheny River drainage basin

- Allegheny River

Monongahela River

The Monongahela River drainage basin

- Monongahela River
  - Four Mile Run
    - Panther Hollow Run
      - Phipps Run
  - Becks Run
  - Streets Run
    - Glass Run
  - West Run
  - Ninemile Run
  - Turtle Creek
    - Brush Creek
      - Bushy Run
  - Thompson Run
  - Crooked Run
  - Youghiogheny River
    - Long Run
    - Crawford Run
    - Rock Run
    - Gillespie Run
    - Pollock Run
    - Sewickley Creek
      - Little Sewickley Creek
      - Kelly Run
      - Hunters Run
      - Pinkerton Run
      - Lick Run
      - Buffalo Run
      - Belson Run
      - Wilson Run
      - Jacks Run
      - Township Line Run
      - Boyer Run
      - Brinker Run
      - Welty Run
    - Cedar Creek
    - Jacobs Creek
      - Barren Run
      - Meadow Creek
      - Stauffer Run
      - Sherrick Run
      - Shupe Run
      - Brush Run
      - Laurel Run
    - Browneller Run
    - Washington Run
    - Virgin Run
    - Furnace Run
    - Smiley Run
    - Dickerson Run
    - Hickman Run
    - Galley Run
    - Mounts Creek
    - Connell Run
    - Dunbar Creek
    - Laurel Run
    - Indian Creek
    - Morgan Run
    - Workman Run
    - Johnson Run
    - Bruner Run
    - Crooked Run
    - Sugar Run
    - Jonathan Run
    - Bear Run
    - Stulls Run
    - Jim Run
    - Cucumber Run
    - Meadow Run
    - Sheepskin Run
    - Rock Spring Run
    - Lick Run
    - Camp Run
    - Drake Run
    - Ramcat Run
    - Casselman River
      - Laurel Hill Creek
      - Coxes Creek
      - Buffalo Creek
      - Flaugherty Creek
    - Hen Run
    - Tub Run
    - Hall Run
    - Braddocks Run
    - Reason Run
  - Lewis Run (Monongahela River tributary)
  - Peters Creek
    - Lewis Run (Peters Creek tributary)
    - Beam Run
    - Lick Run
    - Piney Fork
  - Wylie Run
  - Fallen Timber Run
  - Lobbs Run
  - Kelly Run (Monongahela River tributary)
  - Bunola Run
  - Houston Run
  - Mingo Creek
  - Dry Run
  - Pigeon Creek
  - Beckets Run
  - Maple Creek
  - Speers Run
  - Hooders Run
  - Little Redstone Creek
  - Redstone Creek
  - Dunlap Creek
  - Tenmile Creek
    - South Fork Tenmile Creek
      - Castile Run
      - Browns Run
      - Ruff Creek
      - Coal Lick Run
      - Grimes Run
      - Laurel Run
      - Sugar Run
      - Jackson Run
      - Purman Run
      - Smith Creek
      - Toll Gate Run
      - Browns Creek
      - Throckmorton Run
      - Clear Run
      - Pursley Creek
      - Rush Run
      - Lightner Run
      - Hargus Creek
      - West Run
      - Scott Run
      - Morris Run
    - Plum Run
    - Barrs Run
    - Daniels Run
  - Rush Run
  - Bates Run
  - Pumpkin Run
  - Muddy Creek
  - Wallace Run
  - Antram Run
  - Middle Run
  - Browns Run
  - Little Whiteley Creek
  - Whiteley Creek
  - Cats Run
  - Jacobs Creek
  - Georges Creek
    - War Branch
    - York Run
    - Mountain Creek
    - Muddy Run
  - Dunkard Creek
    - Rocky Hollow
    - Meadow Run
      - Roberts Run
      - Bell Run
    - Glade Run
    - Dooley Run
    - Calvin Run
      - Watkins Run
      - North Branch Calvin Run
    - Hobbs Run
    - Bacon Run
  - Cheat River
    - Big Sandy Creek
  - Camp Run

Lake Erie

Lake Ontario

Genesee River
- Cryder Creek

References

USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Pennsylvania (1974)
Shaw, Lewis C. (June 1984). Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams Part II (Water Resources Bulletin No. 16). Prepared in Cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey (1st ed.). Harrisburg, PA: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Resources (no ISBN).