[3] Named for the nearby creek, Antelope began as a tiny community along the Great Northern Railway's Bainville to Scobey branch line in 1910.

That year, John and Richard Grayson built a hardware store next to the Antelope Creek Lutheran Church.

[4] The community thrived during its first decade, adding general mercantiles, a butcher shop, a concrete plant, restaurants, and other businesses to serve the region's growing homesteader population.

Over the years, however, better roads to the south siphoned off business, and the “Biggest Little City in Eastern Montana” sank into decline.

They had a parade, lunch, a skit about the history of town, and a street dance, among time for people to catch up with one another and blow up games for the kids in the park.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2), all land.