Scott Creek is a locality in the
Adelaide Hills
The Adelaide Hills region is located in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges east of the city of Adelaide in the state of South Australia. The largest town in the area, Mount Barker, South Australia, Mount Barker, is one of Australia's fastest-growi ...
about southeast of
Adelaide
Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to ei ...
in
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...
. It includes the "ceased Government Town" of Cotton.
Scott Creek has a primary school and a Soldiers' Memorial Hall. The school has 55-65 students.
The
Scott Creek Conservation Park is south of Scott Creek, in the neighbouring locality of
Dorset Vale.
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. Copper was discovered in 1850, and silver soon after. Mining ceased in 1887 after extraction of 10 000 ounces (310 kg) of silver.
Scott Creek Airport
Scott Creek Airport also known as Cherry Gardens Airstrip is an airstrip in the northeastern corner of the locality of Clarendon, South Australia in the Adelaide Hills
The Adelaide Hills region is located in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges ...
is a small grass airstrip in nearby
Clarendon which is used to support
South Australian Country Fire Service
The South Australian Country Fire Service (SACFS, commonly abbreviated as CFS) is a volunteer based fire service in the Australian state of South Australia. The CFS has responsibility as the Control Agency for firefighting, rescues and Hazar ...
water bombing aircraft.
References
{{SouthAustralia-geo-stub