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List of rivers of North Carolina#Atlantic Ocean

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This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

By [[drainage basin]]

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

= [[Atlantic Ocean]] =

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==Roanoke River==

==Albemarle Sound==

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Pamlico River

=Tar River=

  • Tar River
  • Kennedy Creek
  • Tranters Creek
  • Cherry Run
  • Mitchell Branch
  • Maple Branch
  • Aggie Run
  • Pocoson Branch
  • Pea Branch
  • Poley Branch
  • Horsepen Swamp
  • Haw Branch
  • Briery Swamp
  • Great Branch Meadow Branch
  • Pinelog Branch
  • Turkey Swamp
  • Bear Grass Swamp
  • Collie Swamp
  • Flat Swamp
  • Bear Creek
  • Chapel Branch
  • Chicod Creek
  • Juniper Branch
  • Bates Branch
  • Cow Swamp
  • Cabin Branch
  • Cross Swamp
  • Grindle Creek
  • Whichard Branch
  • Mill Branch
  • Moyes Run
  • Cannon Swamp
  • Baldwin Swamp
  • Phillippi Branch
  • Barber Creek
  • Hardee Creek
  • Meeting House Branch
  • Bell Branch
  • Greens Mill Run
  • Reedy Branch
  • Fomes Branch
  • Parker Creek
  • Schoolhouse Branch
  • Harris Mill Run
  • Johnsons Mill Run
  • Bryan Creek
  • Sains Branch
  • Tyson Creek
  • Lawrence Run
  • Conetoe Creek
  • Mitchell Swamp
  • Knight Canal
  • Lewis Canal
  • Crisp Creek
  • Fountain Fork Creek
  • Otter Creek
  • Cheeks Mill Creek
  • Town Creek
  • Bynum Mill Creek
  • Cokey Swamp
  • Sasnett Mill Branch
  • Beaverdam Branch
  • Millpond Branch
  • Cabin Branch
  • Deloach Branch
  • Dickson Branch
  • Parker Branch
  • Little Cokey Swamp
  • Corn Creek
  • Williamson Branch
  • Cattail Swamp
  • White Swamp
  • Cattail Branch
  • Jerrys Creek
  • Cromwell Canal
  • Hendricks Creek
  • Holly Creek
  • East Tarboro Canal

==Fishing Creek==

  • Fishing Creek
  • Deep Creek
  • Longs Branch
  • Savage Mill Run
  • Indian Branch
  • Marsh Swamp
  • Cow Haul Swamp
  • Burnt Coat Swamp
  • Breeches Swamp
  • Jacket Swamp
  • Beaverdam Swamp
  • Dog Pond Branch
  • Martin Swamp
  • Rocky Swamp
  • Jack Horse Swamp
  • Beaverdam Swamp
  • Black Swamp
  • Pinelog Branch
  • Little Fishing Creek
  • Bear Swamp
  • Porter Creek
  • Reedy Creek
  • Bobbitts Branch
  • Bens Creek
  • Big Branch
  • Walkers Creek
  • Dowlins Creek
  • Crooked Swamp
  • White Oak Swamp
  • Shocco Creek
  • Little Shocco Creek
  • Cabin Branch
  • Lees Branch
  • Buzzard Branch
  • Maple Swamp
  • Hogpen Branch
  • Bobs Branch
  • Gunters Creek
  • Reedy Branch
  • Long Branch
  • Buffalo Branch
  • Gum Pond Branch
  • Mill Branch
  • Wolfpit Branch
  • Black Branch
  • Possumquarter Creek
  • Richneck Creek
  • Bridle Creek
  • Horse Creek
  • Phoebes Creek
  • Owens Creek
  • Rocky Creek
  • Matthews Creek

==Swift Creek==

  • Swift Creek
  • Leggett Canal
  • White Oak Swamp
  • Moccasin Creek
  • Lane Swamp
  • Flat Rock Branch
  • Gideon Swamp
  • Sandy Creek
  • Tumbling Run
  • Jumping Run
  • Terry Branch
  • Red Bud Creek
  • Shelley Branch
  • Deer Branch
  • Richland Creek
  • Crabtree Creek
  • Devils Cradle Creek
  • Flatrock Creek
  • Buffalo Creek
  • Weaver Creek
  • Dickies Creek
  • Cattail Creek
  • Martin Creek
  • Pounder Branch
  • Penders Mill Run
  • Raccoon Branch
  • Key Branch
  • Walnut Creek
  • Beech Branch
  • Falling Run
  • Buck Swamp
  • Gay Branch
  • Hornbeam Branch
  • Compass Creek
  • Cowlick Branch
  • Goose Branch
  • Stony Creek
  • Pig Basket Creek
  • Little Peachtree Creek
  • Big Peachtree Creek
  • Back Swamp
  • Beaverdam Branch
  • Bear Creek
  • Wildcat Branch
  • Maple Creek
  • Polecat Branch
  • Hicks Branch
  • Grape Branch
  • Sapony Creek
  • Big Branch
  • Little Sapony Creek
  • Henry Branch
  • Gabe Branch
  • Bear Branch
  • Jacob Branch
  • Long Branch
  • Turkey Creek
  • Coker Creek
  • White Creek
  • Biddie Toe Creek
  • Cypress Creek
  • Long Branch
  • Crooked Creek
  • Cedar Creek
  • Big Branch Creek
  • Camping Creek
  • Brandy Creek
  • Jumping Run
  • Wolfpen Branch
  • Sycamore Creek
  • Fox Creek
  • Coole Creek
  • Bear Swamp Creek
  • Buffalo Creek
  • Lynch Creek
  • Billys Creek
  • Kings Creek
  • Buffalo Creek
  • Tabbs Creek
  • Taylors Creek
  • McGee Creek
  • Middle Creek
  • Ford Creek
  • Gibbs Creek
  • Sand Creek
  • Fishing Creek
  • Coon Creek
  • Hachers Run
  • Aycock Creek
  • Johnson Creek
  • Bollens Creek
  • Boulding Creek
  • Cattail Creek
  • Jackson Creek
  • Rocky Creek
  • Owen Creek
  • North Fork Tar River
  • Shelton Creek
  • Fox Creek
  • Cub Creek
  • Moore Swamp

==Neuse River==

  • Neuse River
  • Swan Creek
  • Broad Creek
  • Brown Creek
  • Brown Creek
  • Orchard Creek
  • South River
  • Hardy Creek
  • Big Creek
  • Mulberry Creek
  • Old House Creek
  • Dixon Creek
  • Coffee Creek
  • Royal Creek
  • Little Creek
  • Eastman Creek
  • Southwest Creek
  • Doe Creek
  • Buck Creek
  • Duck Creek
  • Neal Creek
  • Elishu Creek
  • Miry Gut
  • West Fork
  • East Fork
  • Rich Island Gut
  • Pierce Creek
  • Berrys Creek
  • Garbacon Creek
  • Whittaker Creek
  • Greens Creek
  • Camp Creek
  • Smith Creek
  • Morris Creek
  • Kershaw Creek
  • Adams Creek
  • Godfrey Creek
  • Delamar Creek
  • Sandy Huss Creek
  • Dumpling Creek
  • Cedar Creek
  • Jonaquin Creek
  • Cullie Creek
  • Kellum Creek
  • Kearney Creek
  • Issac Creek
  • Back Creek
  • Courts Creek
  • Great Neck Creek
  • Long Creek
  • Dawson Creek
  • Tarkiln Creek
  • Granny Gut
  • Deep Run
  • Wheeler Gut
  • Fork Run
  • Clubfoot Creek
  • Mitchell Creek
  • Big Branch
  • Snake Branch
  • Gulden Creek
  • Mortens Mill Pond
  • East Prong
  • West Prong
  • Gatlin Creek
  • Sassafras Branch
  • King Creek
  • Cherry Branch
  • Alligator Gut
  • Gum Branch
  • Handcock Creek
  • Still Gut
  • Reeds Gut
  • Cohooque Creek
  • Still Gut
  • Barney Branch
  • Spe Branch
  • Little John Creek
  • Jacks Branch
  • Dolls Gut
  • Shop Branch
  • Deep Branch
  • Moebucks Branch
  • Mill Creek
  • Beard Creek
  • Caraway Creek
  • Purifoy Gut
  • Cedar Gut
  • East Prong
  • Slocum Creek
  • Anderson Creek
  • Tucker Creek
  • Sandy Run
  • Miry Branch
  • Goodwin Creek
  • Daniels Branch
  • Mill Creek
  • Hunters Branch
  • Alligator Gut
  • Cedar Creek
  • East Prong
  • Sandy Branch
  • Caps Branch
  • Southwest Prong
  • Wolf Pit Branch
  • Black Swamp Creek
  • East Branch
  • West Branch
  • Lower Duck Creek
  • Otter Creek
  • Crooked Run
  • Goose Creek
  • Cypress Creek
  • Alexander Swamp
  • Black Creek
  • Simmons Branch
  • Deep Run Branch
  • East Fork
  • West Fork
  • Upper Broad Creek
  • Deep Run
  • Sasses Branch
  • Mill Swamp
  • Morgan Swamp
  • Possum Swamp
  • Savannah Bridge Swamp
  • Northwest Creek
  • Duck Creek
  • Scotts Creek
  • Trent River
  • Lawson Creek
  • Brice Creek
  • East Prong
  • West Prong
  • Great Branch
  • Lees Branch
  • Black Branch
  • Georges Branch
  • Hoods Creek
  • Wilson Creek
  • Reedy Branch
  • Rocky Run
  • Miry Hole Branch
  • Island Creek
  • Scott Creek
  • West Prong Raccoon Creek
  • Mill Creek
  • Goshen Branch
  • Little Hell Creek
  • Mill Run
  • Long Branch
  • Beaverdam Creek
  • Jumping Creek
  • French Branch
  • Crooked Run
  • Musselshell Branch
  • Resolution Branch
  • Beaver Creek
  • Chinquapin Branch
  • Poplar Branch
  • Pocoson Branch
  • Little Chinquapin Branch
  • Jack Cabin Branch
  • Mill Branch
  • Cypress Creek
  • Reedy Branch
  • Black Swamp
  • Tuckahoe Creek
  • Joshua Creek
  • Beaverdam Swamp
  • Horse Branch
  • Running Branch
  • Smith Creek
  • Mills Branch
  • Rennys Creek
  • Bachelor Creek
  • Caswell Branch
  • Round Tree Branch
  • Beech Tree Branch
  • Jumping Run
  • Beaverdam Branch
  • Deep Branch
  • Rollover Creek
  • Hollis Branch
  • Swift Creek
  • Little Swift Creek
  • Fisher Swamp
  • Beaverdam Swamp
  • Pine Tree Swamp
  • Bushy Fork
  • Bear Branch
  • Mauls Swamp
  • Palmetto Swamp
  • Clayroot Swamp
  • Creeping Swamp
  • Polland Swamp
  • Indian Well Swamp
  • Thorofare Swamp
  • Fork Swamp
  • Simmon Branch
  • Horsepen Swamp
  • Gum Swamp
  • Pinetree Creek
  • Taylor Creek
  • Turkey Quarter Creek
  • Core Creek
  • Flat Swamp
  • Mill Branch
  • Grape Creek
  • Village Creek
  • Halfmoon Creek
  • Grinnel Creek
  • Alum Springs Branch
  • Contentnea Creek
  • Eagle Swamp
  • Little Contentnea Creek
  • Middle Swamp
  • Sandy Run
  • Pinelog Branch
  • Oldwoman Branch
  • Jacob Branch
  • Black Swamp
  • Langs Mill Run
  • Thompson Swamp
  • Lighter Knot Swamp
  • Ward Run
  • Polecat Branch
  • Wheat Swamp
  • Hallam Branch
  • Mussel Run
  • Beaverdam Run
  • Rainbow Creek
  • Sowell Run
  • Horsepen Branch
  • Shepherd Run
  • Poorhouse Run
  • Panther Swamp Creek
  • Tyson Marsh
  • Spring Branch
  • Reedy Branch
  • Mink Point Branch
  • Jacks Fork
  • Mill Run
  • Washington Branch
  • Fort Run
  • Lewis Branch
  • Lang Branch
  • Nahunta Swamp
  • Appletree Swamp
  • Cow Branch
  • Beaver Branch
  • Mill Branch
  • Button Branch
  • Buzzard Branch
  • Hams Prong
  • Beaver Dam
  • The Slough
  • Exum Mill Branch
  • Jimmy Prong
  • Mocassin Run
  • Long Branch
  • Poplar Branch
  • Buck Meadow Branch
  • Perkins Old Mill Branch
  • Beaman Run
  • Howell Swamp
  • Water Branch
  • Watery Branch
  • Toisnot Swamp
  • Goss Swamp
  • Whiteoak Swamp
  • Buck Branch
  • Mill Branch
  • Little Swamp
  • Beaverdam Creek
  • Whiteoak Swamp
  • Black Creek
  • Aycock Swamp
  • Mill Run
  • Great Swamp
  • Juniper Swamp
  • White Oak Swamp
  • Brandy Branch Swamp
  • Cedar Creek
  • Lee Swamp
  • Robin Swamp
  • Hominy Swamp
  • Bloomery Swamp
  • Shepard Branch
  • Mill Branch
  • Little Swamp
  • Marsh Swamp
  • Buckhorn Branch
  • Little Creek
  • Mill Branch
  • Turkey Creek
  • Haw Branch
  • Camp Branch
  • Big Branch
  • Driving Branch
  • Press Prong
  • Wolfharbor Branch
  • Moccasin Creek
  • Bull Branch
  • Little Creek
  • Beaverdam Creek
  • Mosley Creek
  • Alligator Branch
  • Snake Hole Branch
  • Little Snake Hole Branch
  • Harrys Branch
  • Folley Branch
  • Beaverdam Branch
  • Bone Gray Branch
  • Stonyton Creek
  • Jericho Run
  • Briery Run
  • Taylors Branch
  • Southwest Creek
  • Heath Branch
  • Mill Branch
  • Strawberry Branch
  • Mott Swamp
  • Spring Branch
  • Clarks Branch
  • Hornpipe Branch
  • Horse Branch
  • Turkey Branch
  • Deep Run
  • Toms Branch
  • Gray Branch
  • Adkin Branch
  • Peter Creek
  • Falling Creek
  • Gum Swamp Creek
  • White Marsh Run
  • Moseley Creek
  • Groundnut Creek
  • Jumping Run
  • Whitleys Creek
  • Squirrel Creek
  • Manley Branch
  • Vernon Branch
  • Belch Branch
  • Bear Creek
  • Mill Branch
  • Meeting House Branch
  • West Bear Creek
  • Peters Branch
  • Old Mill Branch
  • Little Marsh Run
  • Mill Run
  • Hullett Branch
  • Drew Branch
  • Hinson Branch
  • Seneca Branch
  • Hardy Mill Run
  • Trotters Creek
  • Frank Nunn Branch
  • Bens Branch
  • Tar River
  • Jacks Branch
  • Dalys Creek
  • Panther Creek
  • John Benton Branch
  • Cox Creek
  • South Prong
  • West Prong
  • Mill Creek
  • Still Creek
  • Walnut Creek
  • Walker Mill Run
  • Powell Run
  • Sleepy Creek
  • Cabin Branch
  • Tommy Reed Creek
  • Burnt Mill Branch
  • Pine Level Branch
  • Green Branch
  • Fellows Branch
  • Stoney Creek
  • Billy Branch
  • Reedy Branch
  • Howell Branch
  • Stoney Run
  • Carroway Creek
  • Poplar Branch
  • Little River
  • Walnut Creek
  • Crabtree Creek
  • Marsh Creek
  • Bridges Branch
  • Pigeon House Branch
  • Big Branch
  • Beaverdam Creek
  • Mine Creek
  • House Creek
  • Hare Snipe Creek
  • Richland Creek
  • Sycamore Creek
  • Reedy Creek
  • Haleys Branch
  • Stirrup Iron Creek
  • Coles Branch
  • Turkey Creek
  • Ellerbe Creek
  • Eno River
  • Little River
  • Flat River
  • North River
  • Newport River
  • White Oak River
  • New River

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==Cape Fear River==

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==Pee Dee River==

Santee River

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  • Santee River (SC)
  • Wateree River (SC)

= Catawba River =

::* Catawba River

:::* South Fork Catawba River

::::* Henry Fork

::::* Jacob Fork River

:::* Lower Little River

:::* Middle Little River

:::* Upper Little River

:::* Johns River

:::* Linville River

:* Congaree River (SC)

::* Broad River

:::* Pacolet River (SC)

::::* North Pacolet River

:::* Bowens River

:::* First Broad River

:::* Second Broad River

:::* Green River

::::* Hungry River

:::::* Little Hungry River

  • Savannah River (SC and GA)
  • Seneca River (SC)
  • Keowee River (SC)

:::* Toxaway River

::::* Horsepasture River

:::* Whitewater River

::::* Thompson River

:* Tugaloo River (SC and GA)

::* Chattooga River

::* Tallulah River

:::* Coleman River

= [[Gulf of Mexico]] =

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See also

References

  • [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/ USGS Geographic Names Information Service]
  • USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of North Carolina (1974)

External links

  • [http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nc/nwis/current/?type=flow North Carolina Streamflow Data from the USGS]

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