Skellytown is a town in Carson County, Texas, United States.

Residents had to gather wood for fuel and rely on trucked-in water supplies.

All three camps moved their businesses to the new site and formed the Skellytown Townsite Company.

Also in 1927, a new post office opened, the Roxana-Skellytown News began publishing every week, Panhandle Power and Light began to provide utilities, and a four-room emergency hospital opened.

[6] Skellytown is located in northeastern Carson County just northeast of Texas State Highway 152, which leads northwest 14 miles (23 km) to Borger and southeast 13 miles (21 km) to Pampa.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Skellytown has a total area of 0.54 square miles (1.4 km2), all land.