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Bullpasture River. Jackson River. Potts Creek. Dunlap Creek. Ogle Creek (Virginia) Cedar Creek (Jackson River tributary) Back Creek. Little Back Creek. Lynnhaven 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 348 miles (560 km) [ 3] to the Chesapeake Bay. [ 4] The river length extends to 444 miles (715 km) if the Jackson River is included, the longer of its two headwaters. [ 3]
The Roanoke River (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) runs 410 miles (660 km) long [1] through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States. [2] A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains southeast across the Piedmont to Albemarle Sound.
The Rappahannock River is a river in eastern Virginia, in the United States, [2] approximately 195 miles (314 km) in length. [3] It traverses the entire northern part of the state, from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the west where it rises, across the Piedmont to the Fall Line, and onward through the coastal plain to flow into the Chesapeake Bay, south of the Potomac River.
The Shenandoah River / ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə / is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, 55.6 miles (89.5 km) long with two forks approximately 100 miles (160 km) long each, [ 3] in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. The river and its tributaries drain the central and lower Shenandoah Valley and the Page Valley in the ...
List of Chesapeake Bay rivers. This list of Chesapeake Bay rivers includes the main rivers draining into the Chesapeake Bay estuarine complex on the mid-Atlantic eastern coast of the United States, North America. The three largest rivers in order of both discharge and watershed area are the Susquehanna River, the Potomac River, and the James ...
Catoctin Creek (Virginia) Cedar Creek (James River tributary) Cedar Creek (North Fork Shenandoah River tributary) Cedar Run (Occoquan River tributary) Chatman Branch (Dan River tributary) Cherrystone Creek. Chestnut Creek. Chickahominy River. Chopawamsic Creek.
The York River is a navigable estuary, approximately 34 miles (55 km) long, [ 4] in eastern Virginia in the United States. It ranges in width from 1 mile (1.6 km) at its head to 2.5 miles (4.0 km) near its mouth on the west side of Chesapeake Bay. Its watershed drains an area of the coastal plain of Virginia north and east of Richmond .