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According to the US Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System, there are 11,247 named Texas waterways, with a combined length of about 80,000 miles and which drain 263,513 square miles within Texas
Listing Conventions:
Major Texas River:
This is a description as I have learned; A major Texas river is a primary Texas river which is 200 miles long or more. The major river must have its mouth in Texas on the Gulf of Mexico but its source can be outside of Texas. There are eight Texas rivers that meet this criteria for Major River, which include from the southernmost cost of Texas: Rio Grande River 1986 m; Nueces River 315 m; Guadalupe River 230 m; Colorado River 862 m; Brazos River 1280 m; Trinity River 710 m; Neches River 426 m; Sabine River 510 m.
Primary Texas Rivers:
A primary River is one that is not a tributary of another river and has its mouth in a Bay or Lake along the coast of the state of Texas. There is no length restrictions on being designated as a primary river.
Secondary Texas Rivers:
also called a tributary of a primary, are those rivers that have its mouth located within the state of Texas. There are no other restriction for being designated a secondary Texas River. These will be shown indented below the primary Texas river.
The miles that are listed next to the name of a river is the length of the river from original headwaters (fork in the river, lake, or spring) to the outflow point (bay, gulf, ocean or primary river.)
If any river flows through Texas but has its outlet (also know as mouth) and/or source outside of Texas, that river listing will indicate what state the outlet and/or source are located within. For a list of abbreviations, see footnote.
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Rivers and tributaries in Texas
Aransas River, 40 miles (P, OUT: W. Copano Bay, GOM)
Brazos River, 840 miles (M, P, OUT: GOM)
Salt Fork, Brazos, 150 miles (OUT: Brazos River)
White River, 62 miles
Double Mountain North of Fork Brazos, 75 miles
Blackwater Draw, 100 miles
Yellow House Draw, 80 mile
Double Mountain Fork of Brazos, 175 miles (OUT: Brazos River)
Clear Fork of Brazos, 180 miles
Elm Creek, 60 miles
Hubbard Creek, 62 miles
Paint Creek, 53 miles
Sweetwater Creek, 45 miles
Bosque River, 5 miles (SOU: Lake Waco)
North Bosque River, 96 miles (OUT: Lake Waco)
South Bosque River, 24 miles (OUT: Lake Waco)
Little Brazos River, 72 miles
Little River, 75 miles (source; Junc Lampasas and Leon Rivers)
Lampasas River, 100 miles
Leon River, 185 miles (SOU: North, Middle, South forks of Leon River)
Sabana River, 50 miles
San Gabriel River, 50 miles
Navasota River, 125 miles
Nolan River, 30 miles
Paluxy River, 29 miles
North Paluxy River
South Paluxy River
White River
Running Water Draw
Buffalo Bayou, 53 miles (OUT: Galveston Bay, GOM)
Bear Creek
Brays Bayou, 32 miles (Western Houston)
Greens Bayou, 42 miles (Northeastern Houston)
Vince Bayou, 19 miles (Pasadena, South Houston)
White Oak Bayou (Northwestern Houston)
Canadian River, (NON, OUT: Arkansas River, OK. SOU: Rocky Mountains, CO)
Caney Creek, 75 miles (original chancel of Colorado River)
Capote-Whitehorse Draw, 86 miles (Endorheic basin)
Cedar Bayou, 46 miles (OUT: Trinity Bay, GOM)
Colorado River, 865 miles (M, P, OUT: Matagorda Bay, GOM)
Barton Creek, 40 miles
Beals Creek (SOU: Junc Sulphur Springs Draw & Mustang Cr)
Sulphur Springs Draw
Mustang Creek
Concho River, 29 miles (SOU: Junc of NF & SF Concho River)
North Fork, Concho River, 137 miles
South Fork, Concho River, 41 miles
Middle Fork, Concho River, 66 miles
Deep Creek, 55 miles
Jim Ned Creek, 71 miles
Llano River, 100 miles (SOU: Junc of NF Llano & SF Llano Rivers)
North Fork, Llano River, 40 miles
South Fork, Llano River, 55 miles
James River, 37 miles
Onion Creek, 59 miles
Pecan Bayou, 90 miles
North Prong, Pecan Bayou
South Prong, Pecan Bayou
Pedernales River, 106 miles
San Saba River, 140 miles
Brady Creek, 90 miles
Guadalupe River, 409 miles (M, P, OUT: San Antonio Bay, GOM)
Comal River, 2.5 miles (SOU: Comal Springs)
San Antonio River, 180 miles
Cibolo Creek, 96 miles
Medina River, 116 miles
Coleto Creek, (source is Twelve Mile and Fifteen Mile Creeks)
San Marcos River, 59 miles
Blanco River, 64 miles
Lavaca River, 117 miles (P, OUT: Lavaca Bay, GOM)
Navidad River, (SOU: Lake Texana)
Sandy Creek, 42 miles (OUT: Lake Texana)
Los Olmos Creek, 71 miles (P, OUT: Baffin Bay, GOM)
Mission River, 24 m. (OUT: Mission Bay, GOM. source: Blanco & Medio Crs.)
Blanco Creek, 45 miles
Medio Creek, 53 miles
Neches River, 416 miles (M, P, OUT: Sabine Lake, GOM)
Angelina River, 120 miles
Attoyac Bayou, 67 miles
Ayish Bayou, 47 miles
Pine Island Bayou, 76 miles
Piney Creek,
Village Creek, 63 miles
Big Sandy Creek
Nueces River, 315 miles (M, P, Corpus Christi Bay, GOM)
Frio River, 190 miles (SOU: Junc of East and West Fork, Frio Rivers)
Atascosa River, 92 miles
North Prong, Atascosa River
West Prong, Atascosa River
Blanco Creek, 44 miles
Leona River, 83 miles
East Fork, Frio River
West , Frio River
Hondo Creek, 67 miles
Palo Blanco Creek, ?
Sabinal River, 60 miles
Turkey Creek, 54 miles
Red River, 1360 miles, (NON, OUT: Atchafalaya River, LA)
Big Cypress Creek, 60 miles
Buck Creek, 49 miles
Cypress Creek (Joins Red River in LA)
Prairie Dog Town Fork, Red River, 160 miles
Mulbery Creek, 58 miles
Tierra Blanca Creek, 75 m. (OUT: Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River)
Palo Duro Creek (OUT: Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River)
Tule Creek, 40 miles through Tule Canyon
Pease River, 100 miles
Middle Pease, 63 miles
Tongue River, 40 miles (also called South Pease River)
North Pease, 60 miles
North Fork, Red River, 180 miles
Salt Fork, Red River, 155 miles
Sulphur River, 175 miles (160 miles in Texas)(SOU: N & S Sulphur Rivers)
North Sulphur River, 54 miles
South Sulphur River, 50 miles
Wichita River, 295 miles (joins Red River at Texas border with OK)
Rio Grande River, 1900 miles (M, P, OUT: GOM, SOU: CO)
Alamito Creek, 82 miles
North Fork, Alamito Creek
South Fork, Alamito Creek
Devils River, 95 miles
Johnson Draw, 66 miles
Pecos River, 926 miles
Delaware River, 50 miles
Howard Draw, 45 miles
Toyah Creek, 56 miles (SOU: Madera Canyon and Aguja Creek)
Aguja Creek
Madera Canyon, 40 miles
Barrilla Draw
Limpia Creek, 52 miles through Limpia Canyon
Rio Chonchos (Mex)
Rio Salado (Mex)
Rio San Juan (Mex)
Terlingua Creek, 83 miles (OUT: just east of Santa Elena Canyon)
Sabine River, 360 miles, (M, P, OUT: Sabine Lake, GOM, SOU: Lake Tawakoni)
Before the Iron Bridge Dam formed Lake Tawakoni, the South Fork,
Cowleech Fork, and Caddo Fork were the headwaters of the Sabine River,
which all three are now submerged under lake Tawakoni in Texas.
The outlet of Lake Tawakoni is now the headwaters for the Sabine River.
Big Cow Creek, 65.8 miles
Big Sandy Creek, 58 miles
Lake Fork Creek, 78.4 miles
Rainwater Creek, 4 miles
San Bernard River, 120 miles (P, OUT: Gulf of Mexico near Freeport, TX)
San Jacinto River, 85 miles (P, OUT: Galveston Bay, GOM, SOU: Lake Houston)
East Fork, San Jacinto River, 69 miles (OUT: Lake Houston)
West Fork, San Jacinto River, 90 miles (OUT: Lake Houston)
Spring Creek, 64 miles
Trinity River, 710 miles (M, P, OUT: Trinity Bay, GOM)
East Fork, Trinity River, 85 miles
Elm Fork, Trinity River, 85 miles (OUT: Trinity River)
West Fork, Trinity River, 145 miles (OUT: Trinity River)
Clear Fork, Trinity River, 56 miles
Johnson Creek, 13 miles
Richland Creek, 50 miles
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