Skellytown is a town in Carson County, Texas, United States. Its population was 473 at the 2010 census, down from 610 at the 2000 census. Located in the Texas Panhandle, it is allowance of the Amarillo metropolitan area. In 1926, Skelly Oil Company purchased a 320-acre (130 ha) lease from Henry Schafer, a local rancher upon whose estate the Roxana oil pool was located. Schafer platted a additional townsite, which he named “Skelly” in great compliment of the company’s founder and president, William Grove Skelly of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Skelly was sited amid the oil boom camps of Roxana, which was north of Skelly, and Noelette, which was east. The first businesses were company-owned supply stores. Residents had to accrue wood for fuel and rely on trucked-in water supplies.

The Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway built a branch origin north in 1927, from White Deer to the oilfields, and received its depot at a site just north of Skelly. All three camps moved their businesses to the further site and formed the Skellytown Townsite Company. Four months later, Skellytown had two oil refineries, a carbon black -manufacturing plant, and virtually 100 oil wells functioning in its vicinity. Also in 1927, a further post office opened, the Roxana-Skellytown News began publishing every week, Panhandle Power and Light began to allow utilities, and a four-room emergency hospital opened.

Skellytown is located in northeastern Carson County at 35°34′22″N 101°10′21″W / 35.57278°N 101.17250°W / 35.57278; -101.17250 (35.572712, –101.172517), just northeast of Texas State Highway 152, which leads northwest 14 miles (23 km) to Borger and southeast 13 miles (21 km) to Pampa.