The Earth is replete with rivers, so much so that except for in some large deserts, you can not travel very far without the need to cross one. Even in the deserts, there are arroyo, gullies, and washes where water has flown before. Too, in most deserts today, the rivers still flow but now often only underground.

So many are these narrow waterways that they are too many to count, so, methinks, there is need to categorize them just to be able to keep some semblance of recognition when arriving on the waterway in some future travel. Too, this gallery will begin with the Earth′s rivers upon the North American continent.

Despite any personal disagreement on previous naming protocols, I will endeavor to maintain the historical waterway names in this information gallery.

This first section will first list the main rivers into which many other rivers would merge or flow into. For lack of another designation, I will call these the Primary rivers and all the tributaries that merge into the primary rivers, will be called Secondary rivers.

All 0f the primary rivers listed below, with only a very few exceptions will be those that flow into a large lake, a gulf, a bay of an ocean or directly into an ocean. These primary rivers will be listed under the jurisdictional district at which location the mouth of that river is found. For instance, the Colorado river mouth will be listed in Baja California (31.6865575, -114.7079411) and the Rio Grande river mouth will be listed in Texas (25.9571752, -97.1473493)

Found directly beneath each primary river may be a list of secondary rivers. Each secondary river will have the location of where the mouth of that secondary river is located, either coordinates and/or then name of the jurisdictional district.

Each river, either Primary

Primary Rivers include all of the first level Riverways within North American and will be listed in the jurisdictional district where that river′s mouth is found. Secondary Rivers will be listed in the same jurisdictional district, directly below their primary river, and to indicate that it is a secondary river, all secondary rivers will be indented from their primary. Further, Primary Rivers may be listed in a jurisdictional district other than the one that contains its mouth wherein it flows; and when this occurs, a link to the jurisdictional district where its mouth will be provided.

However, if in the case the secondary river flows into the primary within a different jurisdictional district, then the list for the secondary will indicate what jurisdictional district it comes from at the location when it merges with the primary, and that listing will also provide a link to the jurisdictional district from where the secondary river flows from.

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.)

Finally, when there is a link of a jurisdictional district, then that link will connect to the list of Rivers in that Jurisdictional district. Currently, there

(49.177778, -123.2125)

854 miles

(For mouth: see Oregon, below)

BC (49.316623, -117.651273)

BC (50.1788363, -116.935668)

Kootenai River, BC

Kootenai River, BC

(49.166631, -115.218719)

(58.795833, -94.204167)

1000 miles

(57.084722, -92.502222)

400 miles

(68.939722, -136.172778)

1,080 miles

(64.275, -96.076389)

560 miles

(62.598611, -164.8)

1,980 miles

(41.5424245, -124.0773192)

(36.986667, -89.130556)

Cairo, Illinois (Also see Kentucky)

(37.0687861, -88.5670841)

Kentucky

(37.1434834, -88.4072786)

Kentucky

(37.8035910, -88.0221860)

Illinois-Indiana

(37.9022322, -87.5000013)

Kentucky

(38.837778, -82.142778)

West Virginia

(38.1605260, -81.1950081)

West Virginia

(40.4413033, -80.0154914)

Pennsylvania, West Virginia

(40.4433942, -80.0134686)

Pennsylvania, New York

(36.986667, -89.130556)

Wickliffe, Kentucky (Also see Illinois)

(37.9946092, -76.3315458)

Maryland

(39.5457065, -76.0766492)

Maryland

(49.316623, -117.651273)

British Columbia

(48.561158, -115,971712)

Montana

(See Tennessee, below)

(See Tennessee, below)

(33.8861133, -95.9319194)

Length: 141 miles

Free flowing River

(34.133333, -98.268056) Elev. 888 feet

Lenght: 5.5 miles

Tributaries: L.: W. Cache Creek, Deep Cache Creed; R.: East Cache Creek

(35.4378861, -95.0325370)

(See also Texas and New Mexico)

(36.170556, -96.271944)

Lenght: 698 miles

(33.961111, -95.229444) Elev. 374 feet

Length: 177 mles

Tributary; Buck Creek

(35.792222, -95.294444) Elev. 489 feet

Length: 463 miles

(34.31675, -99.200359) Elev. 1,181 feet

Length: 271

Tributaries: Elm Fork Red River, Sweetwater Creek.

(34.4439767, -99.3531996) Elev. 1,257 feet

Length: 311 miles

(35.800278, -95.307778)

Length: 310 miles

Tributaries: Fall River; Elk River; Caney Rriver.

(33.911767, -96.57805) Elev. 617 feet

Length: 295 miles

Tributaries: Little Washita River, Wildhorse Creek

(46.244167, -124.058056)

Oregon, Washington

(35.959167, -83.85)

Length: 218 miles

Mouth: French Broad River

Length: 70 miles

(37.067222, -88.564722)

Length: 652 miles

Oklahoma, 35.4378861, -95.0325370

(See also Oklahoma and New Mexico)

Colorado River

Virgin River

Paria River

San Juan River

Escalante River

Dirty Devil River

Green River

Dolores River

Great Salt Lake Watershed

Bear River

Weber River

Jordan River

Utah Lake

American Fork River

Virginia, Chesapeake Bay

(29.5863783459731, -104.42327213676997)

350 miles (560 kilometers)

(26.365278, -98.854167)

(25.9, -99.183333)

(26.866667, -99.316667)

Tamauilipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila