The largest town located partially within the township is Grand Meadow, with a population of 945 people.

There was a village called Frankford on Deer Creek in the far eastern part of the township near Fillmore County.

16.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

At one time it was a bustling frontier village that had three stores, a schoolhouse, a cemetery, three blacksmith and wagon shops, a gristmill, a chair and coffin factory, a shoe shop and the Patchin Hotel which also served as the post office.

When the Southern Minnesota Railroad was laid in 1870 it ran four miles south of the village and this development is what ultimately spelled doom for the once-thriving community.

All that is left of the old village is a cemetery, which is still used, that can be found in the northeast quadrant of section 24 of Frankford Township.