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2010 Map of Skellytown

Name: 2010 Topographic Map of Skellytown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2010
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

Skellytown serves as the central hub of this Carson County landscape, situated where the grid-based rural road network meets the diagonal paths of major local thoroughfares. The town's layout and the adjacent Skellytown Airport suggest a community built on the logistics of the High Plains, while the surrounding terrain is defined by the drainage of White Deer Creek to the east and Spring Creek to the west.

Smaller points of interest like Cargray and the Shaefer Ranch provide localized landmarks for genealogists tracing family roots in this part of the Texas Panhandle. The map detail highlights an extensive network of ranch and farm roads, including Ranch Rd 1059 and Kaika Farm Rd, which illustrate the connectivity between remote homesteads and the primary shipping routes that define the region's agricultural and industrial character in the early 21st century.