List of rivers of Iowa
The following is a list of rivers and creeks in Iowa. The rivers are listed by multiple arrangements:
- those that form part of the boundaries of the U.S. state of Iowa;
- ordered by drainage basin, with tributaries indented under each larger river's name;
- ordered alphabetically.
Rivers on the boundary
- Mississippi River
- Missouri River
- Big Sioux River
- Des Moines River
Ordered by drainage basin
Upper Mississippi River drainage basin
- Mississippi River
- *Fabius River
- **North Fabius River
- *Wyaconda River
- *Fox River
- **Little Fox River
- *Des Moines River
- **Competine Creek
- **White Breast Creek
- **South River
- **Middle River
- **North River
- **Raccoon River
- ***North Raccoon River
- ***South Raccoon River
- ****Middle Raccoon River
- **Beaver Creek
- **Pea's Creek
- ***Davis Creek
- **Boone River
- ***White Fox Creek
- **Lizard Creek
- **East Fork Des Moines River
- *Skunk River
- **Cedar Creek
- **North Skunk River
- **South Skunk River
- ***Thunder Creek
- ***Squaw Creek
- *Flint River
- *Iowa River
- **Cedar River
- ***Wolf Creek
- ***Black Hawk Creek
- ***Beaver Creek
- ***West Fork Cedar River
- ****Shell Rock River
- *****Winnebago River
- ******Lime Creek
- ***Little Cedar River
- **English River
- ***North English River
- ****Middle English River
- ****Deep River
- ***South English River
- **South Fork Iowa River
- **East Branch Iowa River
- **West Branch Iowa River
- *Duck Creek
- *Wapsipinicon River
- **Little Wapsipinicon River
- **Little Wapsipinicon River
- *Elk River
- *Maquoketa River
- **North Fork Maquoketa River
- *Catfish Creek
- *Little Maquoketa River
- **Cloie Branch
- *Turkey River
- **Little Turkey River
- **Volga River
- **Little Turkey River
- *Yellow River
- **Bear Creek
- **Norfolk Creek
- *Upper Iowa River
- **French Creek
- **Bear Creek
- ***Waterloo Creek
- **Canoe Creek
- ***Pine Creek
- **Trout River
- **Pine Creek
- *Minnesota River
- **Blue Earth River
Missouri River drainage basin
- Missouri River
- *Chariton River
- **South Fork Chariton River
- *Grand River
- **Thompson River
- ***Weldon River
- ****Little River
- *Platte River
- *Nodaway River
- **East Nodaway River
- ***East Fork East Nodaway River
- **West Nodaway River
- ***Middle Nodaway River
- ***West Fork Middle Nodaway River
- ****Rutt Branch
- *Tarkio River
- *Nishnabotna River
- **East Nishnabotna River
- **West Nishnabotna River
- ***Walnut Creek
- ***Silver Creek
- ***East Branch West Nishnabotna River
- ***West Fork West Nishnabotna River
- *Keg Creek
- *Mosquito Creek
- *Boyer River
- **Willow River
- **East Boyer River
- *Soldier River
- **East Soldier River
- ***Middle Soldier River
- *Little Sioux River
- **Maple River
- **Ocheyedan River
- ***Little Ocheyedan River
- **West Fork Little Sioux River
- *Floyd River
- **West Branch Floyd River
- ***Little Floyd River
- *Perry Creek
- *Big Sioux River
- **Broken Kettle Creek
- **Rock River
- ***Little Rock River
Ordered alphabetically
- Bear Creek
- Bear Creek
- Beaver Creek
- Beaver Creek, a tributary of the Des Moines River
- Big Sioux River
- Black Hawk Creek
- Blue Earth River
- Boone River
- Boyer River
- Broken Kettle Creek
- Buck Creek
- Canoe Creek
- Catfish Creek
- Cedar River
- Chariton River
- Cloie Branch
- Competine Creek
- Davis Creek
- Deep River
- Des Moines River
- Elk River
- English River
- Flint River
- Floyd River
- Fox River
- French Creek
- Grand River
- Iowa River
- Lime Creek
- Little Cedar River
- Little Fox River
- Little Maquoketa River
- Little Ocheyedan River
- Little River
- Little Rock River
- Little Sioux River
- Little Turkey River
- Little Turkey River
- Little Wapsipinicon River
- Little Wapsipinicon River
- Maple River
- Maquoketa River
- Middle River
- Mississippi River
- Missouri River
- Mosquito Creek
- Nishnabotna River
- Nodaway River
- Norfolk Creek
- North Fabius River
- North River
- Ocheyedan River
- Pea's Creek
- Perry Creek
- Pine Creek
- Pine Creek
- Platte River
- Raccoon River
- Rock Creek
- Rock Creek
- Rock River
- Rutt Branch
- Shell Rock River
- Skunk River
- Soldier River
- South River
- Squaw Creek
- Tarkio River
- Thompson River
- Thunder Creek
- Trout River
- Turkey River
- Upper Iowa River
- Volga River
- Wapsipinicon River
- Waterloo Creek
- Weldon River
- West Fork of the Little Sioux River
- White Breast Creek
- White Fox Creek
- Winnebago River
- Wyaconda River
- Yellow River