Antelope, Montana
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1958. It stands in the Plentywood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59211. The Survey maps it on the Antelope quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,044 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAntelope grew from 51 to 74 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 51 | |
| 2020 | 74 | +23 (+45%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1948 USGS Antelope quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Antelope quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
5 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Antelope between 2017 and 2018, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 28 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 18 July 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 8 April 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
| 10 April 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Northeastern Land Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Antelope in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 16 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Antelope | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Antelope | - | Trained spotter reported ping pong ball size hail. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Antelope | - | Public reported quarter size hail, which lasted for 20 minutes, along with heavy rain. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Antelope | - | Trained spotter reported a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Antelope | - | Public reported, via Facebook, heavy rain totaling 3.8 inches from overnight. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Antelope | - | Trained spotter reported ping pong ball size hail. |
| February 2017 | Flood | Antelope | - | Sheridan County dispatch reported high water along the edges of Highway 16 in the town of Antelope due to ice blockage of culverts in roadside ditches. This resulted in minor nuisance flooding along that stretch of Highway 16. Flooding start and end times are estimated. |
| March 2017 | Flood | Antelope | - | The water level on the Big Muddy Creek near Antelope (MGCM8) rose above its flood stage of 12 feet at 8:09 AM local time on the 18th, crested at a new record high stage of 17.84 feet at 10:15 AM on the 20th, and dropped back down below flood stage at 11:30 PM on the 21st. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Antelope | - | Public reported, via social media, golf ball sized hail. |
| March 2015 | Flood | Antelope | - | A warmer-than-normal start to the month of March allowed area creeks and drainages to freely run as the snowpack quickly melted. As the Mid Muddy Creek flowed southward through Sheridan County, the rate of snowmelt became too much for the creek channel to handle. It rose above the flood stage of 12 feet early in the evening of March 12th, crested at 14.09 feet on the morning of March 13th, as fell back down below flood stage later in the morning of March 12th. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Antelope | - | Trained spotter reported nickel-sized hail with heavy rain and wind gusts up to 40 mph. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Antelope | - | Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of quarters and heavy rain. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Antelope | - | Spotter reported hail stones up to the size of quarters and 1.75 inches of rain with rain still falling. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Antelope | - | Penny-sized hail covering highway 16 up to a depth of 2 inches, 30 mintues after the event occurred. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Antelope | - | Public report relayed through Sheridan County Dispatch office. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Antelope | - | At 1312 MST on April 3rd, an ice jam on the Big Muddy backed water up onto the Rock Springs Road in Reserve while the river gauge near Antelope read 14 feet. On April 5th, flooding continued in Reserve and had expanded down into Medicine Lake. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Antelope | - | Spotter estimated wind gust. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Antelope | - | Estimated 60 mph wind along with pea size hail. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Antelope | - | Most of the hail was pea sized with a few penny sized stones mixed in with the smaller hail. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Antelope | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Antelope | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Antelope | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Antelope | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Antelope | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Antelope | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Antelope | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Antelope | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Antelope | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Antelope | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reserve | 5.8 miles | 6 | |
| Plentywood | 8.1 miles | 4 | |
| Midby (historical) | 13.2 miles | 4 | |
| Medicine Lake | 13.2 miles | 7 | |
| Dooley | 13.7 miles | 4 | |
| Coalridge | 14.3 miles | 4 | |
| Raymond | 14.4 miles | 4 | |
| Rock Crossing | 14.8 miles | 7 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Antelope | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q970293 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 768269. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.



