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

[1] The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation, but rural residential housing is increasing.

[3] The locality presumably takes its name from the creek which rises in the north of the locality and is a tributary of Oyster Creek which exits to the south-west to Taunton and Round Hill.

[3][4] In the 2016 census, Captain Creek had a population of 358 people.

The nearest government secondary schools are Miriam Vale State School (to Year 10) in neighbouring Miriam Vale to the west and Rosedale State School (to Year 12) in Rosedale to the south-east.