Holder is bounded on the south side by the Sturt Highway and includes the Waikerie Airport and Maize Island Lagoon Conservation Park.

The sloping and higher ground is used for vineyards and fruit orchards, irrigated from the river.

[4] The Holder Settlement started out with one or two stone buildings, remnants of the earlier Waikerai Station.

One of these immediately became the school house, public hall and church of the settlement[5] The settlers travelled by train to Morgan then by the paddlesteamer Ellen to the site of their new home.

The town had 19 stone cottages, five of wood and iron, a post office, store, bakery, school and blacksmith.