It is now closed; local students attend Rau School in Sidney, Montana.

Squaw Gap School, when it was functioning, served kindergarten through sixth grade.

[4] A trailer on the school property used to house the lone schoolmaster, but has since been occupied by a local woman.

A local independent telephone exchange was inaugurated on December 15, 1971 with an NBC broadcast of a first phone call from Squaw Gap to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz in Washington, D.C.[5] The community was one of the last to obtain landline telephone service in the continental United States.

In January 2023, the United States Department of the Interior announced that Homesteaders Gap, along with six other locations, had been renamed due to the former name containing an ethnic, racial and sexist slur.