Ninnes is a locality at the northeastern corner of Yorke Peninsula and western side of the Mid North of South Australia.

[3] According to local reportage at the time the fire was so fierce that the townships of Wallaroo and Kadina, more than 15 to 20 km (9.3 to 12.4 mi) distant, were illuminated at night by the fire's glow.

The council chamber would also be used as a school until a separate building was constructed six years later.

[4] Ninnes Post Office opened on 1 November 1882; its date of closure is unknown.

[5] In 1910, it was reported that "while Ninnes...cannot claim to have built a town, and it is easy to count its public buildings, it is not backward in other things", citing the "substantially built and commodious homesteads" and that as one of "the outlying districts which support the towns, it is enjoying prosperity".