Some of the more important streams of the Black Hills are:

(1) Belle Fourche River is in the north with its tributaries:

(2) Sand Creek

(3) Sundance Creek

(4) Redwater Creek

(5) Spearfish Creek

(6) May Creek

(7) Whitewood Creek

(8) Bear Butte Creek

(9) Owl Creek

Eventually these empty into the Cheyenne River.

Below these come the tributaries of the:

(10) Cheyenne

(11) Elk Creek

(12) Bolder Creek

(13) Rapid Creek, with its tributaries

(14) Castle Creek

(15) Slate Creek

(16) Spring Creek

(17) Iron Creek

(18) Battle Creek

(19) Grace Coolidge Creek

(20) French Creek

(21) Lame Johnny Creek

(22) Beaver Creek

(23) Fall River