A creek is usually smaller than a river, especially by length, partly by width and depth.
A tributary is a waterway smaller than the river into which it runs. It may also be a creek, brook, or stream.
A stream smaller than a river is known as a creek
A creek is a natural flowing stream of water smaller than a river that is also referred to as a brook. A creek is also a small coastal inlet
Tangle Creek, Granite Creek, Sycamore Creek, Wet Bottom Creek, East Verde River, Fossil Creek and Oak Creek.
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a brook
A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river., A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook., Any turn or winding.
A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river., A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook., Any turn or winding.
Rivers are often larger in width and length (and sometimes depth, but not always) than a creek. Smaller rivers though, can be confused as creeks especially if a person is used to rivers that are quite large by width than anything.
As you are not specific as to the criteria regarding which 42 of all Maryland's rivers - Anacostia River Antietam Creek Back River Ballenger Creek Bear Creek Big Pipe Creek Bird River Blackwater River Bodkin Creek Bread and Cheese Creek Broad Run Budds Creek Bush River Casselman River Cabin John Creek Carroll Branch Catoctin Creek Chester River Choptank River Christina River Conococheague Creek Cuckold Creek Curtis Creek Deer Creek Deep Run Dividing Creek Dry Seneca Creek Dundee Creek Elk River Flintstone Creek Frog Mortar Creek Furnace Creek Georges Creek Great Seneca Creek Gunpowder Falls Gwynns Falls Hawlings River Herring Run Horsepen Branch Indian Creek (Anacostia River) Indian Creek (Patuxent River) Jones Falls Licking Creek Limekiln Branch Little Choptank River Little Falls Branch Little Monocacy River Little Paint Branch Little Pipe Creek Little Seneca Creek Lyons Creek Magothy River Marley Creek Marshyhope Creek Mattawoman Creek Middle Creek (Toms Creek) Middle River Minnehaha Branch Monocacy River Moores Run Muddy Branch Nanjemoy Creek Nanticoke River North East River Octoraro Creek Paint Branch Patapsco River Patuxent River Piscataway Creek Pocomoke River Port Tobacco River Potomac River Rhode River Rock Creek Rock Run (Potomac River) St. Marys River Saltpeter Creek Sassafras River Savage River Seneca Creek Severn River Sideling Hill Creek South River Sligo Creek Stony Creek Susquehanna River Swanson Creek Toms Creek Tuckahoe Creek Watts Branch (Anacostia River) Watts Branch (Potomac River) West River Wicomico River (Potomac River tributary) Wicomico River (Maryland eastern shore) Wills Creek (North Branch Potomac River) Wye River Youghiogheny River
82. 51 called rivers. 31 called creeks. * Alum Creek * Ashtabula River * Auglaize River * Big Darby Creek * Big Walnut Creek * Black River * Blacklick Creek * Black Fork Mohican River * Blanchard River * Chagrin River * Chippewa Creek * Clear Fork Mohican River * Conneaut Creek * Cuyahoga River * Duck Creek * Euclid Creek * Flatrock Creek * Green Creek * Grand River * Great Miami River (Miami River) * Hocking River * Huff Run * Huron River * Killbuck Creek * Kokosing River * Lake Fork Mohican River * Licking River * Little Auglaize River * Little Cuyahoga River * Little Beaver Creek * Little Darby Creek * Little Hocking River * Little Miami River * Little Muskingum River * Little Ottawa River * Little Sandusky River * Little Scioto River (tributary of Ohio River) * Little Scioto River (tributary of Scioto River) * Loramie Creek * Mad River * Mahoning River * Maumee River * Mill Creek * Mississinewa River * Mohican River * Monday Creek * Moxahala Creek * Muskingum River * Nimishillen Creek * Ohio Brush Creek * Ohio River * Olentangy River * Ottawa River (tributary of the Auglaize River) * Ottawa River (Toledo) * Paint Creek * Portage River * Rattlesnake Creek * Rocky River * St. Joseph River * St. Marys River * Sandusky River * Sandy Creek * Scioto River * Shade River * Shenango River * Stillwater River * Styx River * Sugar Creek * Sunday Creek * Symmes Creek * Tiffin River * Tinkers Creek * Toussaint River * Tuscarawas River * Vermilion River * Wabash River * Wakatomika Creek * Walhonding River * Wheeling Creek * Whitewater River * Wills Creek * Wolf Creek