South River is a 16.9-mile-long (27.2 km)[1] river in Caroline County in Virginia, United States.

It is a tributary of the Mattaponi River.

Rising at the boundary between Caroline County and Spotsylvania County, the South River flows east, passing under U.S. Route 1 and Interstate 95, joining the Mattaponi north of Milford.

Via the Mattaponi and York rivers, the South River is part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

This article related to a river in Virginia is a stub.