Most of Connecticut's rivers flow into Long Island Sound and from there the waters mix into the Atlantic Ocean. A few extremely eastern rivers flow into Block Island Sound. The list is arranged by drainage basin from east to west, with respective tributaries indented from downstream to upstream under each larger stream's name.
By drainage basin (east to west)
editBlock Island Sound
edit- Pawcatuck River – easternmost CT river basin
- Shunock River
- Ashaway River (Rhode Island)
- Wood River
Long Island Sound
edit- Mystic River
- Poquonock River
- Thames River
- Niantic River
- Pattagansett River
- Fourmile River
- Threemile River
- Black Hall River
- Connecticut River
- Back River
- Lieutenant River
- Falls River
- Eightmile River
- Deep River
- Salmon River
- Sumner Brook
- Mattabesset River
- Hockanum River
- Park River – also known as Hog River and Little River
- Podunk River
- Farmington River
- Scantic River
- Patchogue River
- Menunketesuck River
- Indian River (Clinton)
- Hammonasset River
- Neck River
- East River
- West River (Guilford)
- Branford River
- Farm River
- Quinnipiac River
- Mill River
- West River
- Cove River
- Oyster River
- Indian River (Milford)
- Wepawaug River
- Housatonic River
- Pequonnock River
- Ash Creek
- Mill River
- Saugatuck River
- Norwalk River
- Fivemile River
- Noroton River
- Rippowam River – also known as Mill River in its lower end in Stamford
- Mianus River
- Byram River – Westernmost river basin in Connecticut
- Hudson River (New York)
- Croton River (New York)
References
edit- "USGS Geographic Names Information Service". Retrieved 2007-07-17.
- "Professor Higbee's Stream Maps of New England". Vivid Publishing, Inc. 1995. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
See also
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Rivers of Connecticut.