[2] Scott Creek has a primary school and a Soldiers' Memorial Hall.

Both the town and the conservation park are named for the creek that flows through them.

They would have been used by the Peramangk people before European settlement began in the late 1830s.

Mining ceased in 1887 after extraction of 10 000 ounces (310 kg) of silver.

[5] Scott Creek Airport is a small grass airstrip in nearby Clarendon which is used to support South Australian Country Fire Service water bombing aircraft.