The list of rivers in Mississippi includes any river

River

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...

s that flow through part of the State of Mississippi. The major rivers in Mississippi are the Mississippi River

Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...

, Pearl River

Pearl River (Mississippi-Louisiana)

The Pearl River is a river in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Louisiana. It forms in Neshoba County, Mississippi from the confluence of Nanih Waiya and Tallahaga creeks. It is long. The Yockanookany and Strong rivers are tributaries. Northeast of Jackson, the Ross Barnett Reservoir is formed by...

, Pascagoula River

Pascagoula River

The Pascagoula River is a river, about 80 mi long, in southeastern Mississippi in the United States. The river drains an area of about 8,800 sq mi and flows into Mississippi Sound of the Gulf of Mexico....

 and the Tombigbee River

Tombigbee River

The Tombigbee River is a tributary of the Mobile River, approximately 200 mi long, in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of two major rivers, along with the Alabama River, that unite to form the short Mobile River before it empties into Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico...

, along with their main tributaries: the Tallahatchie River

Tallahatchie River

The Tallahatchie River flows from Tippah County, Mississippi to Leflore County, Mississippi, where it joins the Yalobusha River to form the Yazoo River.-History:Tallahatchie is a Choctaw name meaning "rock of waters"....

, Yazoo River

Yazoo River

The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi.The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 as "Rivière des Yazous" in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth. The exact meaning of the term is unclear...

, Big Black River, Leaf River

Leaf River (Mississippi)

The Leaf River is a river, about 180 mi long, in southern Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Pascagoula River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.-Course:...

, and the Chickasawhay River

Chickasawhay River

The Chickasawhay River is a river, about long, in southeastern Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Pascagoula River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico. The Chickasawhay's tributaries also drain a portion of western Alabama...

. However, other tributaries vary in size, with some also draining rather sizable areas of Mississippi (Also see list below: Alphabetically).

The various rivers, with their tributaries, can be organized by drainage basin, as shown in the related maps below.

By drainage basin

This list is arranged by drainage basin

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. All rivers in Mississippi eventually flow into the Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In...

.

• Mobile River (AL)
  • Tombigbee River
    Tombigbee River
    The Tombigbee River is a tributary of the Mobile River, approximately 200 mi long, in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of two major rivers, along with the Alabama River, that unite to form the short Mobile River before it empties into Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico...
    
    
    • Sucarnoochee River
      Sucarnoochee River
      The Sucarnoochee River is a river in Kemper County, Mississippi and Sumter County, Alabama. It originates at , near Porterville, Mississippi, and discharges into the Tombigbee River at . It is long and drains an area of ....
      
      
    • Noxubee River
      Noxubee River
      200px|rightThe Noxubee River is a tributary of the Tombigbee River, about 140 mi long, in east-central Mississippi and west-central Alabama in the United States...
      
      
    • Bogue Chitto
    • Luxapallila Creek
      Luxapallila Creek
      Luxapallila Creek is a stream in Mississippi and Alabama in the United States. Luxapallilla means "flying turtle" in the Choctaw language....
      
      
    • Oak Slush Creek
      Oak Slush Creek
      The Oak Slush Creek is a tributary of the Tombigbee River. It is between Columbus, Mississippi and Starkville, Mississippi. The creek got its name from the plants that are growing within its waters....
      
      
    • Tibbee Creek
    • Buttahatchee River
      Buttahatchee River
      The Buttahatchee River is a tributary of the Tombigbee River, about long, in northwestern Alabama and northeastern Mississippi in the United States...
      
      
    • Town Creek
      Town Creek (Mississippi)
      Town Creek, also known as Old Town Creek or West Fork Tombigbee River, is a tributary stream of the Tombigbee River in northeast Mississippi.Old Town was a Chickasaw village.-References:. Retrieved 13 June 2005.. Retrieved 21 May 2008....
      
      
    • East Fork Tombigbee River
      East Fork Tombigbee River
      East Fork Tombigbee River was a historical name of a tributary stream of the Tombigbee River in northeast Mississippi. Its confluence with Town Creek in Monroe County was the historical beginning of the Tombigbee. Today, however, what was once known as the east fork is now designated as the...
      
      
• Pascagoula River
  Pascagoula River
  The Pascagoula River is a river, about 80 mi long, in southeastern Mississippi in the United States. The river drains an area of about 8,800 sq mi and flows into Mississippi Sound of the Gulf of Mexico....
  
  
  • Escatawpa River
    Escatawpa River
    Escatawpa River is a river in the states of Alabama and Mississippi. It is a tributary of the Pascagoula River....
    
    
  • Black Creek
    • Red Creek
  • Chickasawhay River
    Chickasawhay River
    The Chickasawhay River is a river, about long, in southeastern Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Pascagoula River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico. The Chickasawhay's tributaries also drain a portion of western Alabama...
    
    
    • Buckatunna Creek
    • Chunky River
      Chunky River
      The Chunky River is a short tributary of the Chickasawhay River in east-central Mississippi. Via the Chickasawhay, it is part of the watershed of the Pascagoula River, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico.-Course:...
      
      
    • Okatibbee Creek
  • Leaf River
    Leaf River (Mississippi)
    The Leaf River is a river, about 180 mi long, in southern Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Pascagoula River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.-Course:...
    
    
    • Bogue Homo
    • Tallahala Creek
      • Tallahoma Creek
    • Bouie River
      Bouie River
      The Bouie River, also sometimes known as the Bowie River, is a tributary of the Leaf River, 60 mi long, in southern Mississippi in the United States...
      
      
      • Bowie Creek
      • Okatoma Creek
        Okatoma Creek
        Okatoma Creek is a tributary of the Bouie River in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is part of the watershed of the Pascagoula River.Okatoma Creek is popular for canoeing and kayaking particularly near Seminary, Mississippi where there are several rental businesses...
        
        
    • Oakohay Creek
    • West Tallahala Creek
• Tchoutacabouffa River
  Tchoutacabouffa River
  The Tchoutacabouffa River is a stream located in Harrison County, Mississippi, at a Latitude of 30.435 and Longitude of -88.99222. The river's mouth is located just north of the city of Biloxi at Biloxi Bay and south of Interstate 10, and it flows approximately 31 miles to the north.Southern...
  
  
• Biloxi River
  • Little Biloxi River
• Wolf River
• Jourdan River
  • Catahoula Creek

• Pearl River
  Pearl River (Mississippi-Louisiana)
  The Pearl River is a river in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Louisiana. It forms in Neshoba County, Mississippi from the confluence of Nanih Waiya and Tallahaga creeks. It is long. The Yockanookany and Strong rivers are tributaries. Northeast of Jackson, the Ross Barnett Reservoir is formed by...
  
  
  • Hobolochitto Creek
  • Bogue Chitto
  • Strong River
    Strong River
    The Strong River is a river in south-central Mississippi in the United States. It is a tributary of the Pearl River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.-Course:...
    
    
  • Yockanookany River
    Yockanookany River
    The Yockanookany River is a river in central Mississippi in the United States. It is a tributary of the Pearl River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.-Course:...
    
    
  • Tuscolameta Creek
  • Lobutcha Creek
  • Nanih Waiya Creek
    • Bogue Chitto
  • Tallahaga Creek
• Tangipahoa River
  Tangipahoa River
  The Tangipahoa River originates northwest of McComb in southwest Mississippi, and runs south through Lake Tangipahoa in Percy Quin State Park before passing into southeast Louisiana. Its mouth opens into the northwest region of Lake Pontchartrain....
  
  
• Tickfaw River
  Tickfaw River
  The Tickfaw River runs from Amite County in southwest Mississippi to Livingston Parish in southeast Louisiana. Its mouth opens into Lake Maurepas, which conjoins with Lake Pontchartrain.Alternate/historical names and spellings:*Rio De San Vicente...
  
  
• Amite River
  Amite River
  The Amite River is a tributary of Lake Maurepas in Mississippi and Louisiana in the United States. It is about long. It starts as two forks in southwestern Mississippi and flows south through Louisiana, passing Greater Baton Rouge, to Lake Maurepas. The lower of the river is navigable...
  
  

• Mississippi River
  Mississippi River
  The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...
  
  
  • Buffalo River
    • Little Buffalo River
  • Homochitto River
    Homochitto River
    The Homochitto River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It flows from its source in southwest Mississippi for about west and south, emptying into the Mississippi River between Natchez and Woodville.-Course:...
    
    
  • Coles Creek
  • Bayou Pierre
    • Little Bayou Pierre
    • Tallahalla Creek
  • Big Black River
  • Yazoo River
    Yazoo River
    The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi.The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 as "Rivière des Yazous" in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth. The exact meaning of the term is unclear...
    
    
    • Deer Creek
      Deer Creek (Mississippi)
      Deer Creek is a creek in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It runs through the Mississippi Delta, from Washington County at the Mississippi River to Warren County into the Yazoo River....
      
      
    • Little Sunflower River
    • Sunflower River
      Sunflower River
      The Sunflower River is one of the main tributaries of the Yazoo River in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is navigable by barge for 50 miles. It rises in De Soto County, Mississippi near the Tennessee border and flows south for 100 miles to the Yazoo River...
      
       (or Big Sunflower River)
      • Bogue Phalia
      • Quiver River
        Quiver River
        Quiver River is a river in Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the United States. It is located close to Doddsville, Mississippi. During the American Civil War, a Confederate vessel was sunk in Quiver River....
        
        
      • Hushpuckena River
    • Tallahatchie River
      Tallahatchie River
      The Tallahatchie River flows from Tippah County, Mississippi to Leflore County, Mississippi, where it joins the Yalobusha River to form the Yazoo River.-History:Tallahatchie is a Choctaw name meaning "rock of waters"....
      
      
      • Cassidy Bayou
      • Tillatoba Creek
      • Panola Quitman Floodway
        • Yocona River
        • Little Tallahatchie River
          • Tippah River
      • Coldwater River
        Coldwater River (Mississippi)
        The Coldwater River is a river which flows for through northwestern Mississippi in the United States. It is a tributary of the Tallahatchie River, and part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, via the Yazoo River....
        
        
      • Old Little Tallahatchie River
        • Old Yocona River
    • Yalobusha River
      Yalobusha River
      The Yalobusha River is a river, long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Yazoo River, via which it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River....
      
      
      • Skuna River
        Skuna River
        The Skuna River is a tributary of the Yalobusha River, about 75 mi long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States. Via the Yalobusha and Yazoo Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.-Course:...
        
        
  • Wolf River
    Wolf River (Tennessee)
    The Wolf River is a alluvial stream in western Tennessee and northern Mississippi, whose confluence with the Mississippi River was the site of various Chickasaw, French, Spanish and American communities and forts that eventually became Memphis, Tennessee....
    
    
  • Hatchie River
    Hatchie River
    The Hatchie River is a stream in northern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee. It is of considerable geographic, cultural, and historic significance. In large measure this is because it is the only major stream of West Tennessee that has never been impounded, channelized, or otherwise...
    
    
    • Tuscumbia River
      Tuscumbia River
      The Tuscumbia River is a tributary of the Hatchie River in northern Mississippi and western Tennessee in the United States. It rises in Prentiss County, Mississippi, near Booneville...
      
      
  • Ohio River (KY)
    • Tennessee River
      Tennessee River
      The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 miles long and is located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. The river was once popularly known as the Cherokee River, among other names...
      
      

Alphabetically

• Bayou Pierre
• Big Black River
• Biloxi River
• Black Creek
• Bogue Chitto (Nanih Waiya Creek)
• Bogue Chitto (Tombigbee River)
• Bogue Chitto (West Pearl River)
• Bogue Homo
• Bogue Phalia
• Bouie River
  Bouie River
  The Bouie River, also sometimes known as the Bowie River, is a tributary of the Leaf River, 60 mi long, in southern Mississippi in the United States...
  
  
• Bowie Creek
• Buckatunna Creek
• Buffalo River
• Buttahatchee River
  Buttahatchee River
  The Buttahatchee River is a tributary of the Tombigbee River, about long, in northwestern Alabama and northeastern Mississippi in the United States...
  
  
• Cassidy Bayou
• Catahoula Creek
• Chickasawhay River
  Chickasawhay River
  The Chickasawhay River is a river, about long, in southeastern Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Pascagoula River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico. The Chickasawhay's tributaries also drain a portion of western Alabama...
  
  
• Chunky River
  Chunky River
  The Chunky River is a short tributary of the Chickasawhay River in east-central Mississippi. Via the Chickasawhay, it is part of the watershed of the Pascagoula River, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico.-Course:...
  
  
• Coldwater River
  Coldwater River (Mississippi)
  The Coldwater River is a river which flows for through northwestern Mississippi in the United States. It is a tributary of the Tallahatchie River, and part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, via the Yazoo River....
  
  
• Coles Creek
• Deer Creek
  Deer Creek (Mississippi)
  Deer Creek is a creek in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It runs through the Mississippi Delta, from Washington County at the Mississippi River to Warren County into the Yazoo River....
  
  
• East Fork Tombigbee River
  East Fork Tombigbee River
  East Fork Tombigbee River was a historical name of a tributary stream of the Tombigbee River in northeast Mississippi. Its confluence with Town Creek in Monroe County was the historical beginning of the Tombigbee. Today, however, what was once known as the east fork is now designated as the...
  
  
• Escatawpa River
  Escatawpa River
  Escatawpa River is a river in the states of Alabama and Mississippi. It is a tributary of the Pascagoula River....
  
  
• Hatchie River
  Hatchie River
  The Hatchie River is a stream in northern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee. It is of considerable geographic, cultural, and historic significance. In large measure this is because it is the only major stream of West Tennessee that has never been impounded, channelized, or otherwise...
  
  
• Hobolochitto Creek
• Homochitto River
  Homochitto River
  The Homochitto River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It flows from its source in southwest Mississippi for about west and south, emptying into the Mississippi River between Natchez and Woodville.-Course:...
  
  
• Hushpuckena River
• Jourdan River
• Leaf River
  Leaf River (Mississippi)
  The Leaf River is a river, about 180 mi long, in southern Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Pascagoula River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.-Course:...
  
  
• Little Bayou Pierre
• Little Biloxi River
• Little Buffalo River
• Little Sunflower River
• Little Tallahatchie River
• Lobutcha Creek
• Luxapallila Creek
  Luxapallila Creek
  Luxapallila Creek is a stream in Mississippi and Alabama in the United States. Luxapallilla means "flying turtle" in the Choctaw language....
  
  
• Mississippi River
  Mississippi River
  The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...
  
  
• Nanih Waiya Creek
• Noxubee River
  Noxubee River
  200px|rightThe Noxubee River is a tributary of the Tombigbee River, about 140 mi long, in east-central Mississippi and west-central Alabama in the United States...
  
  
• Oak Slush Creek
  Oak Slush Creek
  The Oak Slush Creek is a tributary of the Tombigbee River. It is between Columbus, Mississippi and Starkville, Mississippi. The creek got its name from the plants that are growing within its waters....
  
  
• Oakohay Creek
• Old Little Tallahatchie River
• Old Yocona River
• Okatibbee Creek
• Okatoma Creek
  Okatoma Creek
  Okatoma Creek is a tributary of the Bouie River in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is part of the watershed of the Pascagoula River.Okatoma Creek is popular for canoeing and kayaking particularly near Seminary, Mississippi where there are several rental businesses...
  
  
• Panola Quitman Floodway
• Pascagoula River
  Pascagoula River
  The Pascagoula River is a river, about 80 mi long, in southeastern Mississippi in the United States. The river drains an area of about 8,800 sq mi and flows into Mississippi Sound of the Gulf of Mexico....
  
  
• Pearl River
• Quiver River
  Quiver River
  Quiver River is a river in Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the United States. It is located close to Doddsville, Mississippi. During the American Civil War, a Confederate vessel was sunk in Quiver River....
  
  
• Red Creek
• Skuna River
  Skuna River
  The Skuna River is a tributary of the Yalobusha River, about 75 mi long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States. Via the Yalobusha and Yazoo Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.-Course:...
  
  
• Strong River
  Strong River
  The Strong River is a river in south-central Mississippi in the United States. It is a tributary of the Pearl River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.-Course:...
  
  
• Sucarnoochee River
  Sucarnoochee River
  The Sucarnoochee River is a river in Kemper County, Mississippi and Sumter County, Alabama. It originates at , near Porterville, Mississippi, and discharges into the Tombigbee River at . It is long and drains an area of ....
  
  
• Sunflower River
  Sunflower River
  The Sunflower River is one of the main tributaries of the Yazoo River in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is navigable by barge for 50 miles. It rises in De Soto County, Mississippi near the Tennessee border and flows south for 100 miles to the Yazoo River...
  
  
• Tallahaga Creek
• Tallahala Creek
• Tallahalla Creek
• Tallahatchie River
  Tallahatchie River
  The Tallahatchie River flows from Tippah County, Mississippi to Leflore County, Mississippi, where it joins the Yalobusha River to form the Yazoo River.-History:Tallahatchie is a Choctaw name meaning "rock of waters"....
  
  
• Tallahoma Creek
• Tangipahoa River
  Tangipahoa River
  The Tangipahoa River originates northwest of McComb in southwest Mississippi, and runs south through Lake Tangipahoa in Percy Quin State Park before passing into southeast Louisiana. Its mouth opens into the northwest region of Lake Pontchartrain....
  
  
• Tchoutacabouffa River
  Tchoutacabouffa River
  The Tchoutacabouffa River is a stream located in Harrison County, Mississippi, at a Latitude of 30.435 and Longitude of -88.99222. The river's mouth is located just north of the city of Biloxi at Biloxi Bay and south of Interstate 10, and it flows approximately 31 miles to the north.Southern...
  
  
• Tennessee River
  Tennessee River
  The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 miles long and is located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. The river was once popularly known as the Cherokee River, among other names...
  
  
• Tibbee Creek
• Tillatoba Creek
• Tippah River
• Town Creek
  Town Creek (Mississippi)
  Town Creek, also known as Old Town Creek or West Fork Tombigbee River, is a tributary stream of the Tombigbee River in northeast Mississippi.Old Town was a Chickasaw village.-References:. Retrieved 13 June 2005.. Retrieved 21 May 2008....
  
  
• Tuscolameta Creek
• Tuscumbia River
  Tuscumbia River
  The Tuscumbia River is a tributary of the Hatchie River in northern Mississippi and western Tennessee in the United States. It rises in Prentiss County, Mississippi, near Booneville...
  
  
• West Tallahala Creek
• Wolf River (Mississippi)
• Wolf River (Tennessee)
  Wolf River (Tennessee)
  The Wolf River is a alluvial stream in western Tennessee and northern Mississippi, whose confluence with the Mississippi River was the site of various Chickasaw, French, Spanish and American communities and forts that eventually became Memphis, Tennessee....
  
  
• Yalobusha River
  Yalobusha River
  The Yalobusha River is a river, long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Yazoo River, via which it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River....
  
  
• Yazoo River
  Yazoo River
  The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi.The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 as "Rivière des Yazous" in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth. The exact meaning of the term is unclear...
  
  
• Yockanookany River
  Yockanookany River
  The Yockanookany River is a river in central Mississippi in the United States. It is a tributary of the Pearl River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.-Course:...
  
  
• Yocona River

External links

• Mississippi Streamflow Data from the USGS