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List of rivers in Kentucky (U.S. state).

By drainage basin

This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. All rivers in Kentucky flow to the Mississippi River, nearly all by virtue of flowing to its major tributary, the Ohio River. Also listed are some important tributaries to the few Kentucky rivers that originate in, or flow through, other states.

• Mississippi River
  • Obion Creek
  • Mayfield Creek
  • Ohio River

    

    • Goose Creek
    • Massac Creek
    • Tennessee River
      • Clarks River
      • Blood River
    • Cumberland River

      

      • Little River
      • Red River
      • Obey River (Tennessee)
        • Wolf River
      • Big South Fork of the Cumberland River
      • Rockcastle River
      • Laurel River
      • Clear Fork
    • Tradewater River
    • Green River
      • Panther Creek
      • Pond River
      • Rough River
      • Mud River
      • Barren River
        • Gasper River
      • Little Reedy Creek
      • Big Reedy Creek
      • Bear Creek
      • Nolin River
      • Little Barren River
      • Russell Creek
    • Salt River
      • Rolling Fork
        • Beech Fork
          • Chaplin River
      • Floyds Fork
    • Beargrass Creek
    • Little Kentucky River
    • Kentucky River

      

      • Eagle Creek
      • Elkhorn Creek
      • Benson Creek
      • Dix River
        • Cedar Creek
      • Hickman Creek
      • Silver Creek
      • Red River
      • North Fork Kentucky River
        • Middle Fork Kentucky River
        • Troublesome Creek
      • South Fork Kentucky River
        • Goose Creek
        • Red Bird River
    • Taylors Creek
    • Licking River

      

      • Banklick Creek
      • South Fork Licking River
        • Townsend Creek
      • North Fork Licking River
    • Kinniconick Creek
    • Tygarts Creek
    • Little Sandy River
    • Big Sandy River
      • Blaine Creek
      • Levisa Fork
        • Paint Creek
        • Russell Fork
      • Tug Fork
        • Blackberry Creek

Alphabetically

• Banklick Creek
• Barren River
• Beargrass Creek
• Beaver Creek (Kentucky)
• Beech Fork of the Salt River
• Big Sandy River
• Blackberry Creek
• Blood River
• Cassidy Creek
• Cedar Creek
• Chaplin River
• Clarks River
• Clear Creek (Kentucky)
• Clear Fork
• Cruises Creek
• Cumberland River
• Defeated Creek (Knott County, Kentucky)
• Defeated Creek (Letcher County, Kentucky)
• Dix River
• Dreaming Creek
• Dry Creek (Kentucky)
• Drennon Creek
• Eddy Creek
• Elkhorn Creek
• Floyds Fork of the Salt River
• Gasper River
• Green River
• Hickman Creek
• Kentucky River
• Laurel River
• Lawrence Creek (Kentucky)
• Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River
• Licking River
• Little Barren River
• Little Kentucky River
• Little River
• Little Sandy River
• Lynn Camp Creek
• Massac Creek
• Middle Fork Kentucky River
• Mississippi River
• Mistaken Creek
• Mud River
• Nolin River
• North Fork Kentucky River
• Ohio River
• Paint Creek
• Pond River
• Red Bird River
• Red River (eastern Kentucky)
• Red River (western Kentucky)
• Rockcastle River
• Rolling Fork of the Salt River
• Rough River
• Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River
• Salt Lick Creek (Kentucky)
• Salt River
• Sap Branch
• Silver Creek
• Sinking Creek (Breckinridge County, Kentucky)
• Sinking Creek (Jessamine County, Kentucky)
• South Fork Kentucky River
• Squabble Creek
• Tearcoat Creek
• Tennessee River
• Tradewater River
• Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River
• Tygarts Creek
• Wolf River

References

• USGS Geographic Names Information Service
• USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Kentucky (1974)

See also

• List of rivers in the United States

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