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Missouri Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it border ...
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By drainage basin

This list is arranged by
drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.


Mississippi River


Arkansas River

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Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the main stem, primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind only the Missouri River, Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Ita ...
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Arkansas River The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. It generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The river's source basin lies in Colorado, specifically ...
(AR, OK) *** Neosho River (KS, OK) **** Elk River ***** Buffalo Creek ***** Indian Creek ***** Big Sugar Creek ***** Little Sugar Creek **** Spring River ***** Shoal Creek ****** Capps Creek


White River

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Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the main stem, primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind only the Missouri River, Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Ita ...
** 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 A spring creek is a type of free flowing river whose name derives from its origin: an underground Spring (hydrology), spring or set of springs which produces sufficient water to consistently feed a unique river. The water flowing in a spring cree ...
**** Clifty Creek *** Little North Fork White River *** Beaver Creek **** Cowskin Creek ***** Prairie Creek **** Little Beaver Creek ***
James River The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowli ...
**** Crane Creek **** Finley Creek **** Pierson Creek **** Wilsons Creek *****Jordan Creek ***** Fassnight Creek *** Kings River **** Osage Creek *** Roaring River


Mississippi River between the White and Missouri rivers

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Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the main stem, primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind only the Missouri River, Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Ita ...
** St. Francis River *** Little River **** Castor RiverThe majority of the Castor and Whitewater rivers have been diverted to drain directly to the Mississippi via the Headwater Diversion Channel, but the lower portions of both rivers still drain to the Little 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

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Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the main stem, primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind only the Missouri River, Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Ita ...
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Missouri River The Missouri River is a river in the Central United States, Central and Mountain states, Mountain West regions of the United States. The nation's longest, it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Moun ...
*** 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 The Niangua River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 31, 2011 tributary of the Osage River in the Ozarks region of southern and central Missouri in the United St ...
***** 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 The Marmaton River (''MAR-muh-tuhn'') is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 31, 2011 tributary of the Little Osage River in southeastern Kansas and western Missouri i ...
****** Green River **** Marais des Cygnes River *** Moreau River *** Lamine River ****
Blackwater River A blackwater river is a type of River#Classification, river with a slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. Most major blackwater rivers are in the Amazon Basin and the Southern United States. The term is used in fluvial ...
*** 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 The Thompson River is the largest tributary of the Fraser River, flowing through the south-central portion of British Columbia, Canada. The Thompson River has two main branches, the South Thompson River and the North Thompson River. The river ...
***** Weldon River ****** Little River *** Crooked River *** Fishing River *** Little Blue River *** Blue River **** Brush Creek **** Round Grove Creek


Missouri River north of the Kansas River

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Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the main stem, primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind only the Missouri River, Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Ita ...
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Missouri River The Missouri River is a river in the Central United States, Central and Mountain states, Mountain West regions of the United States. The nation's longest, it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Moun ...
*** Platte River **** One Hundred and Two River ***** White Cloud Creek ***** Jones Branch ***** Mozingo 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

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Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the main stem, primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind only the Missouri River, Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Ita ...
** Cuivre River ** Salt River *** Spencer Creek (Salt River) *** Black Creek (North Fork Salt River tributary) **** 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 Wyaconda River is a stream in Davis County, in the U.S. state of Iowa, and Lewis and Clark counties in Missouri Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, M ...
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Little Wyaconda River Little is a synonym for small size Size in general is the Magnitude (mathematics), magnitude or dimensions of a thing. More specifically, ''geometrical size'' (or ''spatial size'') can refer to three geometrical measures: length, area, o ...
** Fox River *** Little Fox River ** Des Moines River


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See also

* List of rivers of the United States * State Line Slough (Missouri)


Notes


References


USGS Geographic Names Information Service
*USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Missouri (1974)


External links


Missouri's WatershedsMissouri Streamflow Data from the USGS
{{Missouri Missouri rivers
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