If a small creek counts as a river then we practically have one in our neighborhood backyard... If not then i guess fair to say about a kilometer or two...

There are 3 significant rivers within a radius of ~10 km, and a half dozen more a bit farther out.

The crick's just over the hill, but the river is down the road a spell.

mine is if "riverbed" counts

less than 1km but it's the LA river. I don't know if it counts, most of the time there's no water in it.

I live on an island in the middle of a river, I can walk 20 feet from my back door and jump in if I want...

I think the nearest river to me is New River, which is an old, artificially constructed river completed in 1613 to bring fresh water into London.

I guesstimate that the nearest bit I can see is 3 km away but it is potentially closer: parts run underground for long stretches near its terminus and I don't know where they go.

A number of rivers in London are hidden from view, most famously the River Fleet that gives its name to Fleet Street, so this is a tricky one to answer.

Well it has been an estuary a lake and a river, but it might also just be a canal!

Didn't vote because it's between 1 and 2 km.

about 200m 😀

If canals count, about 200m. Actual rivers.. about 5km.

Well i have the end of the Tagus river and the start of the Atlantic sea at less then 1 mile of my house.

I can see the ocean, a bis canal is 500m away but the next river I don't know. 😁

If you include culverted rivers, about 20 metres (the Swan), otherwise about 1.5km (the Dodder). #Dublin

I am very close to the East River in New York but that's not an actual river. Then there is Newtown Creek but that's not a real river either. So I guess I have to ask 2-10km away from the Hudson.

But I'm 740 miles from the nearest ocean, which still feels weird, because I grew up 1 mile from the ocean. Even with air travel and all that, being in the middle of the country still makes the rest of the world feel further away.

How did you come to the idea for this poll? 😁

id depends what you mean..."as the crow flies" or by lenth of road to get there, does a river have to be named a river, like the Mississippi River, or does any body of running water count?

Coon Creek is 1.2km from my house according to OpenStreetmaps, so none of your options are actually accurate, while the Bell River is 14.3 km, Branch Clinton River is 8.1km (8km as the crow flies) but to get to the the main Clinton River is 36 km to drive to, or 31km as the crow flies.

30m, but it's all downhill

@Evan Prodromou Is this something people know without having to get out a map?

The nearest real river is the Mohawk, and it's about 5K from here. There's also a kill about 1.5K from me. Big enough to show on a map but I wouldn't call it a river.

Does a human-made canal aqueduct count? I live a few blocks from the California Aqueduct.

it’s 1km or less regardless, but despite the local estuary being named a river it feels more properly an arm of the Narragansett Bay.

I'm pretty close to the Delaware River. 13 miles. But lots of big creeks between there and my house.

524ft 😀

I live almost right on the Willamette riverfront here in Portland. First time ever living so close to a large body of water, and now I don't think I could ever live any other way.

I have a creek at the end of the road. The river is further away.

i am 1-2 km from a creek that can fill up fast

But there's a couple of creeks, not too far away. Very pretty.

Also, when I think about our river (the Yarra), and see photos of rivers from exotic foreign climes, I feel like I haven't lived.

it’s technically an estuary, but we call it a river.

At first I thought this result was heavily biased in one way or another, but then I realized many cities have rivers running through them. Here, much surface water but mostly in the form of canals

Umm… depends. Do you count rivers as always having water‽ Because the ones here are dry most of the year.

between 1 and 2 km, so I chose the first two options

year round rivers? #askingforadesertrat

@eco_amandine cool!

Try about 150 metres or so. Was less before we moved. Never riverfront though.

This is a weird question for me because I more or less live on a lake.

…there's… almost certainly a river feeding the lake?… somewhere?

This is very cool. I had no idea it would be so high, but it kind of makes sense. Most people live in cities, and cities are often on rivers, so QED.

I'm 4 km from the St. Laurent in our city house, and 150m from the St. François in our country house, so I'm going to average to 2-10km.

Also: rivers are cool; yay rivers.

If I get up and go to the door, about 20 feet 😀

Just under 4km to the "mighty" Murrumbidgee River from here, though at this part of its course, it's not much to see.

@MykDowling cool! Roll on you mighty Murrumbidgee!