Baffle Creek is a rural locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia.

[3] Baffle Creek (the watercourse) forms the southern and south-western boundaries.

[4] The area on Baffle Creek was first settled in 1908 by Prussian and German immigrants who were recruited by Apostle.

[6][7][8] In 1921, a shop storeroom off the Coast Road was remodelled to become St Paul's Lutheran Church.

[12] On 26 November 2018, the Queensland Government ordered the evacuation of Baffle Creek, Deepwater and Rules Beach due to a "dangerous and unpredictable" bushfire 50-kilometre (31 mi) wide and covering 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) with flames of 10 to 12 metres (33 to 39 ft) high during an extreme heatwave.