[3] Kandota Township was organized in April 1870 and it took the name of a town site that had been proposed and platted in 1856.

The site, which was on the shore of Fairy Lake, never developed into a town although it did have a Great Northern Railway station.

[5] Kandota township has a number of lakes including Lily, Long, and Fairy.

[5] The fish species in Fairy Lake include black bullhead, black crappie, bluegill, brown bullhead, green sunfish, hybrid sunfish, largemouth bass, northern pike, pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, tullibee (cisco), walleye, yellow bullhead, yellow perch, bowfin (dogfish), common carp, white sucker, banded killifish, blackchin shiner, blacknose shiner, bluntnose minnow, central mudminnow, Iowa darter, Johnny darter, and spottail shiner.

[5] The Sauk River flows through Kandota township several miles south of Fairy Lake.