Antelope is in extreme northeastern Montana twenty miles from Canada and the North Dakota line. The town and the stream were named for the graceful animal native to the area; large herds of antelope used to water at the stream. The earliest settlers at the present site of Antelope were the Richardson brothers, the Folsoms, Hedges, and Ators. The town was incorporated in 1913, three years after it had been granted a post office, and once had a population of 360. In 1967 a US Navy gunboat was christened the "Antelope." Crew members came to visit Antelope, and in turn, twenty-eight citizens of Antelope went to Tacoma, Washington to see the boat commissioned. (from Cheney's
Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)
