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State/Territory	Stories Each story is about one waterbody unless followed by a number indicating a multiple number of waterbodies discussed in that story.	Number of Waterbodies per State
Alabama	Caney Branch Dry Creek Flint River	3
Alaska	Caribou Creek Chena River Cheney Lake Eagle River Flats Gàndlaay Hàana Kenai River Jewel Lake Naknek River (4) Sawmill Creek St. Paul Salt Channel Slate Creek Swan Lake & Wrinkleneck Creek	15
Arizona	Nutrioso Creek	1
Arkansas	Days Creek	1
California	Big Meadow Creek & Upper Truckee River (2) Chorro Creek Sacramento & Feather Rivers (4) San Diego Creek San Joaquin Basin (Grasslands Watershed) (4) San Joaquin River (2) Whiskeytown Lake Beaches	15
Colorado	Box Canyon Creek Rio Blanco Watershed	2
Connecticut	Edgewood Park Pond North Running Brook	2
Delaware	Gravelly Branch Little Assawoman Bay Noxontown Pond Trap Pond	4
District of Columbia	Hickey Run	1
Florida	Roberts Bay	1
Georgia	Broxton Creek Etowah River Hog Creek Jacks, Hopkins & Cedar Creeks (3) Little Ochlockonee River Reedy Creek Rubes Creek Williamson Swamp Creek	10
Idaho	Middle Tepee Creek Raft River Steamboat Creek Upper Tepee Creek Yellowdog Creek	5
Illinois	Addison Creek Charleston Side Channel Reservoir Des Plaines River (2) Dutchman Creek Governor Bond Lake Honey Creek Indian Creek	8
Indiana	Big Walnut Creek (6) Bull Run/West Creek (2) Lower Clifty Creek Metcalf Ditch Pigeon Creek	11
Iowa	Clear Creek Lake Binder Lake Icaria Nine Eagles Lake Slip Bluff Lake	5
Kansas	Banner Creek Reservoir Big Creek (3) Clarks Creek Dragoon Creek Watershed (4) Eagle Creek Fall River Mill Creek (5) Neosho River (2) Walnut and West Creeks (2)	20
Kentucky	Fleming Creek Rock Creek	2
Louisiana	Bayou Plaquemine Brule Tangipahoa River (2) Tchefuncte & Bogue Falaya Rivers (2)	5
Maine	Cobbossee Lake Duckpuddle Pond Highland Lake Madawaska Lake Mousam Lake	5
Massachusetts	Fuller Brook	1
Michigan	Furlong Creek Kearsarge & Scales Creeks Poterfield Creek Whetstone Brook	4
Minnesota	Clearwater River Credit River	2
Mississippi	Buttahatchee River Lake Hazle Magees Creek (2)	4
Missouri	Cameron, Mark Twain, Smithville Lakes (5) Dardenne Creek Fellows Lake Monroe City Route J Lake North Fabius River Upper Cedar Creek Vandalia Lake	11
Montana	Big Creek Lower Piper, Upper & Lower Goat Creeks (3) Upper Sun River	5
Nebraska	Carter Lake Holmes Lake Kirkmans Cove Reservoir Recharge Lake Swan 5A Reservoir Valentine Mill Pond Wildwood Reservoir	7
Nevada	Las Vegas Wash	1
New Hampshire	Bog Brook Cains Pond Crystal Lake (2) Maxwell Pond Middle Brook Pemigewasset River	7
New Jersey	Stony Brook–Millstone Watershed (3) Wallkill River at Hamburg (2) Wallkill River at Sparta	6
New Mexico	Comanche Creek Lower Santa Fe River Rio Cebolla	3
New York	Chittenango Creek DeRuyter Reservoir Hempstead Harbor Niagara River (2) Oneida Lake Rudd Pond Tonawanda Creek West Branch, Delaware River	9
North Carolina	Brasstown Creek Clear Creek (2) Fourth Creek (3) Little Ivy Creek Mills River Richland Creek Smith Creek Swannanoa River (2) Tar-Pamlico Basin	13
North Dakota	Lake LaMoure Lower Pipestem Creek	2
Ohio	Middle Cuyahoga River	1
Oklahoma	Beaty Creek Beaver & Doga Creeks (2) Bull Creek California Creek Camp Creek Clear Creek Cloud Creek Cooper Creek Dirty and Elk Creeks (2) Duck Pond Creek Dugout Creek Lagoon Creek Lake Creek Little Elk Creek Little Wewoka Creek Mission Creek Pennington Creek Salt Creek Sandy & Yellowstone Creeks (2) Stinking Creek Tepee Creek Turkey Creek Wolf Creek	26
Oregon	Diamond Lake	1
Pennsylvania	Babb and Pine Creeks (4) Gumboot Run (4) Johnson Run (11) Lake Jean Little Coon Run (4) Lloydville Run Miller Run Manatawny Creek (2) Pierceville Run Semiconon Run Step Run Sterling Run (5)	36
Puerto Rico	Río Grande de Manatí (3)	3
Rhode Island	Gilbert Stuart Stream	1
South Carolina	Cane & Little Cane Creeks (2) Coneross, Beaverdam Creeks (3) Fishing Creek (2) Tyger River (4)	11
South Dakota	Belle Fourche River (2) Choteau Creek Medicine Creek	4
Tennessee	Arrington Creek Austin Branch Big Sandy River Blue Spring Creek Brush Creek Cane Creek Cherokee Creek Cove Creek Cripple Creek Crooked Creek DeMoss Creek Dry Creek Fall Creek Hinds Creek Kyker Branch Lick Creek (McNairy County) Lick Creek (Marshall & Rutherford Counties) Little Shoal Creek Nolichucky River (3) Obion River Rock Springs Branch Slop Creek Thompson Creek Turkey Creek Wades Branch West Sandy Creek	28
Texas	Aquilla Reservoir Buck Creek Fosdic Lake Lake Como Tres Palacios Creek	5
Utah	Upper Little Bear River	1
Vermont	Adams Brook Chase & Slide Brooks (2) Crystal Brook Dowsville Brook Rice Brook Joiner Brook Shelburne Beach South Bay of Lake Memphremagog Stone Bridge Brook Taft Brook Whetstone Brook	12
Virginia	Batie Creek Lynnhaven, Broad, Linkhorn Bays (3) Middle Creek Muddy Creek Willis River (3)	9
Washington	Chehalis River (78) Lower Nooksack River (3) Skokomish River South Fork Skagit River Willapa River (8)	91
West Virginia	Morris Creek North Fork Potomac Watershed Sugar Creek & Dogway Fork (2) Windmill Gap Creek	5
Wisconsin	Bass Lake Eagle and Joos Valley Creeks (2) German Valley Branch West Branch Sugar River (3)	7
Wyoming	Chugwater Creek Hunter Creek Muddy & McKinney Creeks (2) North Fork Spread Creek Rock Creek Sage Creek Shell Creek (2) Smiths Fork (2)	11
Total		443

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