Minnipa is a small town serving the local grain growing community located on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.

[4] Development of the surrounding districts followed the railway, and accelerated after the opening of the water pipeline from the Tod River scheme in 1925.

These historic tanks were reconditioned in the 1990s and fitted with new roofs to provide a standby water supply for Minnipa.

Adjacent to the silos is a disused railway siding which used to freight the grain crop to Port Lincoln, which is now done by road transport for export around the world.

It is located in the centre of a vast low-rainfall wheat belt and the surrounding countryside includes numerous wind-shaped granite outcrops.