Leigh Creek (formerly Leigh's Creek) is a coal-
mining town in eastern central South Australia.
At the 2006 census, Leigh Creek had a
population of 549.

Situated to the west of the northern Flinders
Ranges, the current town of Leigh Creek is 13
km further south than the original town—it was
moved in 1982 to allow the expansion of the
mine. As a result, most facilities and buildings in
the town are only a little over thirty years old,
and with relatively modern designs.

Leigh Creek is a government-owned town on
the edge of the desert (its annual rainfall is 205
mm). It is currently up for sale as its original
purpose, to house the workers and their
families who provided the labour force for the
huge Leigh Creek open cut coal mine 22 km
north of the town, ceased to exist when the
mine was closed in 2015. At the time Leigh
Creek was a modern mining town with a
modern shopping centre, a series of neat
modern roads and small, attractive plots of land
on which standard modern houses had been
built. Today it is a town without a purpose.
Leigh Creek is located 556 km north of
Adelaide via Port Augusta, 261 km north of Port
Augusta and 194 m above sea level.