List of rivers of Alabama facts for kids

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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.

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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)

drainage basins for the main rivers draining southeastern Alabama

Apalachicola River

Choctawhatchee River

Yellow River

Escambia (Conecuh) River

Perdido River

Apalachicola River (FL)
- Chattahoochee River
  - Cedar Creek
  - Omusee Creek
  - Abbie Creek
    - Sandy Creek
  - Cheneyhatchee Creek
  - Barbour Creek
  - Chewalla Creek
  - Cowikee Creek
    - North Fork Cowikee Creek
      - Middle Fork Cowikee Creek
    - South Fork Cowikee Creek
  - Hatchechubbee Creek
  - Uchee Creek
    - Little Uchee Creek
  - Wacoochee Creek
  - Halawakee Creek
  - Osanippa Creek
  - Oseligee Creek
  - Wehadkee Creek
  - Hillabahatchee Creek

Choctawhatchee River
- Holmes Creek
- Wrights Creek
- Pea River
  - Flat Creek
    - Eightmile Creek
  - Whitewater Creek
- Double Bridges Creek
- Claybank Creek
- Little Choctawhatchee River
- West Fork Choctawhatchee River
  - Judy Creek
- East Fork Choctawhatchee River

Yellow River
- Shoal River (FL)
  - Pond Creek
- Five Runs Creek
- Lightwood Knot Creek

Blackwater River (Pensacola Bay)
- Big Coldwater Creek
- Big Juniper Creek
  - Sweetwater Creek

Escambia River (FL)
- Conecuh River
  - Big Escambia Creek
  - Lindsey Creek
  - Murder Creek
    - Burnt Corn Creek
  - Mayo Mill Creek
  - Silas Creek
  - Sepulga River
  - Patsaliga Creek

Perdido River
- Blackwater River (Perdido Bay)
- Styx River
  - Cowpen Creek
  - Hollinger Creek

Soldier Creek
Palmetto Creek
Hammock Creek

Wolf Creek
- Miflin Creek
- Sandy Creek

Portage Creek

Mobile Bay

By far, the Mobile drainage basin is the largest in Alabama

Mobile drainage basin

Mobile–Alabama–Coosa rivers

Black Warrior drainage basin

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 (west side Tombigbee River tributary)
  - Bassett Creek (east side Tombigbee River tributary)
  - 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 drainage basin

Tennessee drainage basin

Pascagoula River (MS)
- Escatawpa River
  - Bennett Creek
  - Little Creek
    - Pond Creek

Mississippi River

Mississippi River (LA, MS, TN, KY)
- Ohio River (KY)
  - Tennessee River
    - Bear Creek
      - Buzzard Roost Creek
      - Cedar Creek
        
        Little Bear Creek
    - Second Creek
    - Mulberry Creek
    - Cane Creek
    - Little Bear Creek
    - Spring Creek
    - Cypress Creek
      - Little Cypress Creek
    - Shoal Creek
      - Butler Creek
    - Town Creek
      - Mud Creek
    - Bluewater Creek
    - Big Nance Creek
      - Clear Fork
      - Muddy Fork
    - Second Creek
    - Elk River
      - Anderson Creek
      - Sugar Creek
      - Sulphur Creek
      - Big Creek
    - Flint Creek
      - West Flint Creek
      - No Business Creek
    - Limestone Creek
      - Piney Creek
    - Cotaco Creek
      - Town Creek
    - Indian Creek
      - Huntsville Spring Branch
        
        Broglan Branch
    - Flint River
      - Hurricane Creek (Flint River tributary)
      - Brier Fork Flint River
      - Mountain Fork
    - Paint Rock River
      - Hurricane Creek (Paint Rock River tributary)
      - Estill Fork
    - Big Spring Creek
    - Short Creek
      - Scarham Creek
    - Town Creek
    - South Sauty Creek
      - Kirby Creek
    - North Sauty Creek
      - Blue Spring Creek (North Sauty Creek tributary)
    - Mud Creek
      - Robinson Creek (Mud Creek tributary)
    - Coon Creek
    - Crow Creek
      - Big Coon Creek
    - Widows Creek
    - Long Island Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
    - Jones Creek
    - Lookout Creek

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 tributary)
Bassetts Creek (west side Tombigbee River tributary)
Bates Creek
Bay Minette Creek
Bayou Coden
Bayou la Batre
Bayou Sara
Bayou Sullivan
Bear Creek (Alabama River tributary)
Bear Creek (Bogue Chitto Creek tributary)
Bear Creek (Lubbub Creek tributary)
Bear Creek (Pine Barren Creek tributary)
Bear Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
Beaver Creek (Alabama River tributary)
Beaver Creek (Tombigbee River tributary)
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 (North Sauty Creek tributary)
Bluewater Creek
Bodka Creek
Bogue Chitto (Tuckabum Creek tributary)
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 tributary)
Cane Creek (Coosa River tributary)
Cane Creek (Lost Creek tributary)
Cane Creek (Mulberry Fork)
Cane Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
Caney Creek
Capsey Creek
Catoma Creek
Cedar Creek (Alabama River tributary)
Cedar Creek (Bear Creek tributary)
Cedar Creek (Chattahoochee River tributary)
Cedar Creek (Mobile River tributary)
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 tributary)
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 tributary)
Crooked Creek (Tallapoosa River tributary)
Crow Creek
Cubahatchee Creek
Cypress Creek
Davis Creek
Dixon Creek
Dog River
Double Bridges Creek
Dry Creek (Chickasaw Bogue)
Dry Creek (Santa Bogue Creek tributary)
Duck River
Dykes Creek
East Fork Choctawhatchee River
East Fork Little River
East Fowl River
Eightmile Creek (Broglen River tributary)
Eightmile Creek (Flat Creek tributary)
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 tributary)
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 tributary)
Hurricane Creek (Flint River tributary)
Hurricane Creek (Paint Rock River tributary)
Hurricane Creek (Terrapin Creek tributary)
Indian Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
Indian Creek (Wolf Creek tributary)
Ivy Creek
Jackson Creek
Jones Creek
Judy Creek
Kelly Creek (Cheaha Creek tributary)
Kelly Creek (Coosa River tributary)
Kinterbish Creek
Kirby Creek
Lightwood Knot Creek
Limestone Creek
Lindsey Creek
Line Creek (Alabama)
Little Bear Creek (Bear Creek tributary)
Little Bear Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
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 (Tennessee River tributary)
Lookout Creek
Lost Creek (Mulberry Fork)
Lost Creek (Spring Creek tributary)
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 tributary)
Mud Creek (Town Creek tributary)
Mud Creek (Valley Creek tributary)
Muddy Fork
Mulberry Creek (Alabama River tributary)
Mulberry Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
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 tributary)
Pond Creek (Shoal River tributary)
Portage Creek
Pursley Creek
Puss Cuss Creek
Rabbit Creek
Raft River
Rambo Branch
Rattlesnake Bayou
Right Fork Clear Creek
Robinson Bayou
Robinson Creek (Mud Creek tributary)
Rock Creek
Rush Creek
Ryan Creek
Sand Creek
Sandy Creek (Abbie Creek tributary)
Sandy Creek (Wolf Creek tributary)
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 tributary)
Shoal Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
Short Creek (Locust Fork)
Short Creek (Tennessee River tributary)
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 tributary)
Spring Creek (Tombigbee River tributary)
Sturdivant Creek
Styx River
Sucarbowa Creek
Sucarnoochee River
Sugar Creek
Swamp Creek
Sweetwater Creek
Swift Creek
Talladega Creek
Tallapoosa River
Tallaseehatchee Creek (Coosa River tributary)
Tallaseehatchee Creek (Ohatchee Creek tributary)
Tallawassee Creek
Tennessee River
Tensaw River
Terrapin Creek
Threemile Creek
Tombigbee River
Town Creek (Cotaco Creek tributary)
Town Creek (Guntersville Lake)
Town Creek (Wilson Lake)
Trussells Creek
Tuckabum Creek
Turkey Creek (Beaver Creek tributary)
Turkey Creek (Locust Fork)
Turkey Creek (Tombigbee River tributary)
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 tributary)
Wolf Creek (Perdido Bay)
Woodward Creek
Yantley Creek
Yellow Creek
Yellow Leaf Creek
Yellow River
Yellowleaf Creek