This is a partial list of
river
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Nebraska
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By tributary
Missouri River
*''Cheyenne River (SD)''
**Hat Creek
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White River
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Niobrara River
The Niobrara River (; oma, Ní Ubthátha khe, , literally "water spread-out horizontal-the" or "The Wide-Spreading Water") is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. Many early settlers, such as Mari Sando ...
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Burgess Creek
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Bingham Creek
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Snake River
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Long Pine Creek
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Keya Paha River
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Verdigre Creek
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North Branch Verdigre Creek
North Branch Verdigre Creek is a long second-order tributary to Verdigre Creek in Knox County, Nebraska.
Course
North Branch Verdigre Creek rises on the Elkhorn River divide about 4 miles southeast of Opportunity, Nebraska in Holt County and ...
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Middle Branch Verdigre Creek
Middle Branch Verdigre Creek is a long fourth-order tributary to Verdigre Creek in Knox County, Nebraska.
Variant names
According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as:
*Middle Branch Verdigree Cree ...
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Lamb Creek
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Merriman Creek
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Cottonwood Creek
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East Branch Verdigre Creek
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South Branch Verdigre Creek
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Big Springs Creek
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Hathoway Slough
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Schindler Creek
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Soldier Creek
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Pishel Creek
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Steel Creek
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Red Otter Creek
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Sand Creek
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Louse Creek
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East Branch Louse Creek
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West Branch Louse Creek
West Branch Louse Creek is a long second-order tributary to Louse Creek in Holt County, Nebraska. The confluence of this creek with East Branch Louse Creek forms Louse Creek.
West Branch Louse Creek rises on the North Branch Verdigre Creek di ...
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Redbird Creek
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Spring Creek
A spring creek is a type of free flowing river whose name derives from its origin: an underground spring or set of springs which produces sufficient water to consistently feed a unique river. The water flowing in a spring creek may additionally b ...
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Blackbird Creek
Blackbird Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 river in northern Delaware in the United States.
Course
Blackbird Creek rises in two branches both ...
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Eagle Creek
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Camp Creek
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Oak Creek
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East Branch Eagle Creek
East Branch Eagle Creek is a long second-order tributary to Eagle Creek in Holt County, Nebraska
Holt County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,127. Its county seat is O'Neill.
Holt Cou ...
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Middle Branch Eagle Creek
Middle Branch Eagle Creek is a long second-order tributary to Eagle Creek in Holt County, Nebraska.
Middle Branch Eagle Creek rises on the Elkhorn River divide east of Atkinson, Nebraska
Atkinson is a city in Holt County, Nebraska, United S ...
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North Branch Eagle Creek
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Turkey Creek
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Brush Creek
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Spring Creek
A spring creek is a type of free flowing river whose name derives from its origin: an underground spring or set of springs which produces sufficient water to consistently feed a unique river. The water flowing in a spring creek may additionally b ...
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Little Sandy Creek
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Big Sandy Creek
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Beaver Creek
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Clay Creek
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Otter Creek
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Simpson Creek
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Big Anne Creek
Big Anne Creek is a long third-order tributary to the Niobrara River in Keya Paha County, Nebraska. This is the only stream of this name in the United States.
Variant names
According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been ...
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Haughin Creek
Haughin Creek is a long second-order tributary to Big Anne Creek in Keya Paha County, Nebraska. This is the only stream of this name in the United States.
Haughin Creek rises on the Coon Creek divide at about southeast of Bothwell School in K ...
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Ash Creek
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Oak Creek
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Willow Creek
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Sand Creek
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Rock Creek
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Laughing Water Creek
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Coon Creek
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Tarbell Creek
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Elk Creek
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Wyman Creek
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Long Pine Creek
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Short Pine Creek
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Bone Creek
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Sand Draw
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Willow Creek
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Beeman Creek
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Rickman Creek
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Ponca Creek
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Papillion Creek
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Platte River
The Platte River () is a major river in the State of Nebraska. It is about long; measured to its farthest source via its tributary, the North Platte River, it flows for over . The Platte River is a tributary of the Missouri River, which itself ...
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North Platte River
The North Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River and is approximately long, counting its many curves.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 21, 2011 In a ...
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South Platte River
The South Platte River is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River. Flowing through the U.S. states of Colorado and Nebraska, it is itself a major river of the American Midwestern United States, Midwest and the American Sout ...
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Lodgepole Creek
Lodgepole Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 25, 2011 in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Nebraska and ...
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Wood River Wood River may refer to:
Rivers In Canada
* Wood River (British Columbia), a tributary of the Columbia River via Kinbasket Lake
* Wood River (Saskatchewan), a river in south-west Saskatchewan
In Ireland
* Wood River (County Clare), Kilru ...
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Loup River
The Loup River (pronounced /lup/) is a tributary of the Platte River, approximately long, in central Nebraska in the United States. The river drains a sparsely populated rural agricultural area on the eastern edge of the Great Plains southeast ...
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North Loup River
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Calamus River
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Middle Loup River
The Loup River (pronounced /lup/) is a tributary of the Platte River, approximately long, in central Nebraska in the United States. The river drains a sparsely populated rural agricultural area on the eastern edge of the Great Plains southeast o ...
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Dismal River
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South Loup River
The Loup River (pronounced /lup/) is a tributary of the Platte River, approximately long, in central Nebraska in the United States. The river drains a sparsely populated rural agricultural area on the eastern edge of the Great Plains southeast ...
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Cedar River
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Elkhorn River
The Elkhorn River is a river in northeastern Nebraska, United States, that originates in the eastern Sandhills and is one of the largest tributaries of the Platte River, flowing and joining the Platte just southwest of Omaha, approximately s ...
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South Fork Elkhorn River
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North Fork Elkhorn River
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Logan Creek Dredge
Logan Creek Dredge is a canal located in northeastern Nebraska, United States, that roughly follows the natural course of the Logan Creek, but without the many meanders. Some water still flows through much of course of the former creek (and its ma ...
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Rock Creek
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Salt Creek
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Oak Creek
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Stevens Creek
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Middle Creek
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Antelope Creek
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Elk Creek
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Beal Slough
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Haines Branch
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Cardwell Branch
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Lynn Creek
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Deadman's Run
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Little Salt Creek
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Nishnabotna River
The Nishnabotna River () is a tributary of the Missouri River in southwestern Iowa, northwestern Missouri and southeastern Nebraska in the United States. It flows for most of its length as two parallel streams in Iowa, the East Nishnabotna Riv ...
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Little Nemaha River
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Big Nemaha River
*''Kansas River (KS)''
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Republican River
The Republican River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, rising in the High Plains (United States), High Plains of eastern Colorado and flowing east U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline ...
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North Fork Republican River
The North Fork Republican River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 29, 2011 tributary of the Republican River. It flows eastward from a source in Yuma County, Colo ...
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Arikaree River
The Arikaree River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America. It lies mostly in the American state of Colorado, draining land between the North and South Forks of the Republican River, and it flows into the North Fork in Nebraska ...
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Buffalo Creek
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Rock Creek
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South Fork Republican River
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Frenchman Creek
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Blackwood Creek
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Driftwood Creek
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Red Willow Creek
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Medicine Creek
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Sappa Creek
Sappa Creek is a stream in the central Great Plains of North America. A tributary of the Republican River, it flows for through the American states of Kansas and Nebraska.
Geography
Sappa Creek originates in the High Plains of northwest Kansas ...
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Big Blue River
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West Fork Big Blue River
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Little Blue River
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Arikaree River
The Arikaree River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America. It lies mostly in the American state of Colorado, draining land between the North and South Forks of the Republican River, and it flows into the North Fork in Nebraska ...
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Big Blue River
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Big Nemaha River
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Brawner Creek
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Buckley Creek Buckley Creek is a stream in Jefferson County, Nebraska, in the United States
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Calamus River
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Cedar River
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Coon Creek
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Dismal River
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Dry Branch
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Elkhorn River
The Elkhorn River is a river in northeastern Nebraska, United States, that originates in the eastern Sandhills and is one of the largest tributaries of the Platte River, flowing and joining the Platte just southwest of Omaha, approximately s ...
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Frenchman Creek
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Keya Paha River
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Little Blue River
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Little Nemaha River
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Lodgepole Creek
Lodgepole Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 25, 2011 in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Nebraska and ...
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Logan Creek Dredge
Logan Creek Dredge is a canal located in northeastern Nebraska, United States, that roughly follows the natural course of the Logan Creek, but without the many meanders. Some water still flows through much of course of the former creek (and its ma ...
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Long Pine Creek
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Loup River
The Loup River (pronounced /lup/) is a tributary of the Platte River, approximately long, in central Nebraska in the United States. The river drains a sparsely populated rural agricultural area on the eastern edge of the Great Plains southeast ...
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Middle Loup River
The Loup River (pronounced /lup/) is a tributary of the Platte River, approximately long, in central Nebraska in the United States. The river drains a sparsely populated rural agricultural area on the eastern edge of the Great Plains southeast o ...
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Missouri River
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Niobrara River
The Niobrara River (; oma, Ní Ubthátha khe, , literally "water spread-out horizontal-the" or "The Wide-Spreading Water") is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. Many early settlers, such as Mari Sando ...
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Nishnabotna River
The Nishnabotna River () is a tributary of the Missouri River in southwestern Iowa, northwestern Missouri and southeastern Nebraska in the United States. It flows for most of its length as two parallel streams in Iowa, the East Nishnabotna Riv ...
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North Fork Elkhorn River
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North Loup River
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North Platte River
The North Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River and is approximately long, counting its many curves.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 21, 2011 In a ...
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Papillion Creek
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Platte River
The Platte River () is a major river in the State of Nebraska. It is about long; measured to its farthest source via its tributary, the North Platte River, it flows for over . The Platte River is a tributary of the Missouri River, which itself ...
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Ponca Creek
The Ponca (Omaha-Ponca language, Páⁿka iyé: Páⁿka or Ppáⁿkka pronounced ) are a Midwestern United States, Midwestern Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribe of the Dhegihan branch of the Siouan languages, Siouan lan ...
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Republican River
The Republican River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, rising in the High Plains (United States), High Plains of eastern Colorado and flowing east U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline ...
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Red Willow Creek
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Rock Creek
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Salt Creek
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Sappa Creek
Sappa Creek is a stream in the central Great Plains of North America. A tributary of the Republican River, it flows for through the American states of Kansas and Nebraska.
Geography
Sappa Creek originates in the High Plains of northwest Kansas ...
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Silver Creek
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Smith Creek
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Snake River
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South Fork Elkhorn River
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South Loup River
The Loup River (pronounced /lup/) is a tributary of the Platte River, approximately long, in central Nebraska in the United States. The river drains a sparsely populated rural agricultural area on the eastern edge of the Great Plains southeast ...
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South Platte River
The South Platte River is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River. Flowing through the U.S. states of Colorado and Nebraska, it is itself a major river of the American Midwestern United States, Midwest and the American Sout ...
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Turkey Creek
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West Fork Big Blue River
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Whisky Run (Jefferson County, Nebraska)
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White River
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Wood River Wood River may refer to:
Rivers In Canada
* Wood River (British Columbia), a tributary of the Columbia River via Kinbasket Lake
* Wood River (Saskatchewan), a river in south-west Saskatchewan
In Ireland
* Wood River (County Clare), Kilru ...
See also
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List of rivers in the United States
The following list is a list of rivers of the United States.
Alphabetical listing
''Listings of the rivers in the United States by letter of the alphabet:''
List of rivers in the United States: A, A - List of rivers in the United States: B, B ...
References
External links
Nebraska Streamflow Data from the USGS
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Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwe ...
Rivers