| Fisher River | |
| Name Other: | Tributary to Yadkin River |
| Map Size: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map: | USA North Carolina |
| Pushpin Map Size: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Fisher River mouth |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | United States |
| Subdivision Type2: | State |
| Subdivision Name2: | North Carolina Virginia |
| Subdivision Type3: | Counties |
| Subdivision Name3: | Surry (NC) Grayson (VA) |
| Length: | 43miles[1] |
| Discharge1 Location: | Yadkin River |
| Discharge1 Avg: | 238.53cuft/s at mouth with Yadkin River[2] |
| Source1: | divide between Fisher River and New River |
| Source1 Location: | about 1 mile east of Low Gap, Virginia |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 36.5703°N -80.8675°W[3] |
| Source1 Elevation: | 2640feet[4] |
| Mouth: | Yadkin River |
| Mouth Location: | Crutchfield, North Carolina[5] |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 36.2672°N -80.6925°W[6] |
| Mouth Elevation: | 840feet[7] |
| Progression: | Yadkin River → Pee Dee River → Winyah Bay → Atlantic Ocean |
| River System: | Yadkin River |
| Tributaries Left: | Camp Branch Sage Creek Little Fisher River Cooks Creek Horns Creek Beaver Creek Little Beaver Creek Dunagan Creek Davenport Creek |
| Tributaries Right: | Gully Creek Roaring Fork Endicott Creek Red Hill Creek Flat Branch Burris Creek Cody Creek Bear Creek Pheasant Creek |
The Fisher River is a tributary of the Yadkin River in northwestern North Carolina in the United States, also draining a very small portion of southwestern Virginia.[8] Via the Yadkin it is part of the watershed of the Pee Dee River, which flows to the Atlantic Ocean. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as "Big Fishers River," "Fish River" and "Fishe River."
The Fisher River rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the southeastern extremity of Grayson County, Virginia, but flows for nearly all of its length in Surry County, North Carolina, initially southeastwardly. Near Dobson, it collects the short Little Fisher River and turns southward to its confluence with the Yadkin River, about 3 mi (5 km) north-northeast of Boonville.[8]