The creek is 8.25 kilometres (5.13 mi) and flows from an elevation of 181 metres (594 ft) and drops to an elevation of 162 metres (531 ft).

[3] Charles Sturt camped for six months at Preseration Creek and it was here that James Poole died.

Of the event Sturt wrote "I little thought when I was engaged in the work that I was erecting Mr. Poole's monument, but so it was.

That rude structure looks over his lonely grave, and will stand for ages as a record of all we suffered in the dreary region to which we were so long confined.

The boat was launched and abandoned at Preseration Creek when instead of a sea, they found a vast stony desert.